remington 700 .270

Remington 700 270 - The writer bought his first deer gun with newspaper delivery money and used it to kill many whitetails and groundhogs.

The author, c. In 1979, he hunted groundhogs on the edge of the field with his first deer rifle. Richard Mann

Remington 700 270

In 1978 my best friend bought a Remington 700 chambered in 7mm Remington Magnum. It was a fire-breathing dragon and I needed something better or just as good. While saving money on newspaper postage, I studied ballistics charts, devised complex formulas, and specified the .264 Winchester Magnum bullet for myself. In the winter of my fourteenth year, my father took me to every gun store, but none of them had the Mark 264. The Winchester .270 was as close as I could get. It was a brand new Remington 700 and I was $14 short. Dad loaned me $14, plus enough to buy a Tasco 2-7X rifle, and I had my first deer rifle.

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I wandered the fields that summer, sat in the barn and examined the pastured hogs. Yes, the Winchester .270 is a bit too much for whistle hogs. But I was limited by the .22 Magnum, and I was surprised at how far I could reach and hit it without worrying about it running into the hole. Those 700 rounds stack 130-grain Remington bronze point bullets at 100 yards, and by deer season I had gone through several boxes.

The only ammo I had left on opening day was a 150 grain Winchester power point. I loaded four of them into my rifle and headed out on my first solo hunt. After climbing the ridge, I hit an old logging road and several whitetails emerged from the canopy. I instinctively followed the rifle, found one in the crosshairs, twisted it and pulled the trigger. The big witch collapsed under the big walnut tree. I was a deer hunter.

Dragging the deer to the logging road, manured the field, and admiring the trophy, there was no way in or out. On the verge of panicking - I thought I had just scared the deer to death - I raised its front legs and found the bullet hole. During the run, the deer was hit while its legs were straight. Relieved, I walked the half mile back to the bloody work and camp.

That model was responsible for over 700 deer tars. It was the rifle I learned to load and even used to win a steel figure competition.

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I replaced the rifle with a now-forgotten weapon - partly because the rifle was getting a little thinner, and partly because I knew I had a .264 lying around somewhere in my name. It took him years to find the .264, and when he did, it was another model 700. I caught my first mule with it.

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Born and raised in West Virginia, Richard Mann has hunted from the mountains of Montana to the green hills of Africa. In 2015, Mann began contributing to Field & Stream magazine on guns, ammunition, ballistics and hunting. In 2022, he was selected as the brand's Shooting Editor.

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