If you were to buy a wood-stocked rifle in .270 Win and want to keep it in the $800 - $1,300 price range, what would you buy? (not hypothetical - I’m thinking about doing this // not concerned about hiking over hill and dale for days on end, and all shots within 300-yds but mostly <200-yds)
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Browning xbolt medallion, and Tikka Hunter are coming to mind. Cz also has several options.
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I second the Tikka Hunter for a classic look and an awesome action
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yeah, i was thinking about the x-bolt medallion. my daughter has an x-bolt hunter in 7mm-08, which i love. i’ll have to also take a look at the tikka & cz
Pre 64 Winchester 308. It won’t be shot out in that caliber and you can’t get more nostalgic than that. You could also go 30-06 or 270. I have one in 308 and it’s a tac driver. If you’re a Remington fan then the same calibers in the BDL. You can’t beat hunting with these old guns. There is just something about carrying one of them into the woods. It’s like using a piece of history to hunt deer.
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I’m with you Kenneth. I have it in the back of my mind to get a wood stocked 270 Win.
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Yes I picked up a 270 in an early Remington BDL. It’s awesome! I haven’t killed anything with it yet.
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yep. actually, I passed on a 700 BDL way back in 1986 b/c the stock was scratched … foolish 17 year old. I should have bought it! I was thinking of getting a new 700 CDL in .270 Win, but it seems like Remington’s quality dropped off in recent years.
coincidentally, I saw a pre-1964 in .270 online just a few days ago. I went to check on the barrel condition and maybe buy it, but it was aleady sold.
Too bad it was gone. I have been buying older guns for about 10 years now. What I have found is the older guns tend to not be shot out like a lot of the new higher velocity calibers today. I just don’t think that most people put as many rounds down range as we do today. Now there is always the exception but that is what I am seeing. My new favorite obsession is savage model 99’s. What a cool gun. I found one from the 1950’s new unfired in 300 savage caliber.
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I have two wood stocked Tikka’s and love them. Neither is in .270 Win but one in .243 and one in .300 win mag. Having one on either end of the spectrum I can only assume that the .270 in the middle would be great!
thanks. the t3x is def getting a lot of love, also seeing a lot of positive commentary in video reviews
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I have a Rem 700 mountain rifle with wood stock in 270. Even back in the day they could
make a really light rifle with a wood stock - and dtm.
My father is 84 and is old school as you can imagine. There are no plastic stocks among his 150 rifles. None.
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I love those guns. My father had one in 280 caliber. Man I wish I still had that one. I have been collecting old Sako Vixens and The 99 Savages. Also picked up a Remington 722. I have a fascination with the 218 Bee caliber as well. I’m a predator hunter and love using the old small caliber’s for fox and coyotes. Wood is not dead but still has a place in the hunting woods.
Last year I managed to find a Ruger No 1 in 218 Bee. It’s an absolute joy to shoot! Also have another No 1 in “the Bob”.
For the last couple of years I’ve spent almost all of my time with rifles working with modern hunting rifles with fancy dialing turret scopes, suppressors, and in one case a tuner, and doing load development for these guns. Every now and then however it’s nice to go break out one of the old fashioned, simple, no extra things added rifles and just have some fun.
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Those are awesome guns. I have a Winchester model 43 in 218. I really want to shoot a coyote with it. It is really nice to go back to simpler times with these kind of rifles.
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Found an X-Bolt Hunter in .270 Win that a gun dealer really wanted off his shelf - had been there a long time. He priced it to move at $682, so I moved it. Topped it with an illuminated Burris Fullfield IV 2.5-10x42.
Visited my father over Easter. He gave me a Weatherby 300 Mark V with a nice wood stock and a Winchester model 70 from 1953 in 06 with a walnut stock the he carved and checkered. Family heirlooms. Also. Ruger no. 1 in 300 WM with his custom stock as well. But the old guns really need help with recoil pads. Those old thin red hard rubber pads are not really helpful. At 84 he says he does not want to shoot the magnums anymore. Plus he gave me a custom 35 whelen with a custom Paul Marquart barrel on a mauser 98 action with his carved stocks. I grew up in Prescott Az and that place had quite a gun making community.
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