What is it about the .270 Winchester that remains so appealing to hunters? Sometimes the designers get things right the first ...

The most common bullet weights for the .270 are 130 and 150 grains. The old buck walked slowly around the point, stopped, reached up for a mouthful of browse. The gold bead came to rest against his ...

My wife and I did a 30-day hunt in Bechuanaland in the summer of 1966. We shipped plenty of rifles and ammunition, but somewhere along the way the alumi­num gun cases in which I had shipped our things ...

This story, “The .270 in Africa,” was originally published in the March 1967 issue of Outdoor Life. Bechuanaland is now Botswana. My wife and I did a 30-day hunt in Bechuanaland in the summer of 1966.