What do you like about them? What do you not like about them? Thinking about adding one to the collection.

Well, it's a great cartridge, but is the care and feeding worth the effort? Only you know the answer ...

Anything Weatherby is expensive to shoot. On that note, I know the 257 Weatherby is a great round, and can only imagine the 270 is just as impressive

I bet it would be bad-A pushing the Berger EOL 170 gr if the barrel had the right twist.

They are impressive my buddy has an Ultra Light Arms 270 Wby, he has stacked up some game with it!

John Barsness says his .270 with 1:10 twist shoots the 170-grain Berger "pretty well."

only if you reload

The 270 Weatherby and the 7mm Weatherby were two calibers I could never convince myself to purchase and interestingly enough neither is a very popular round. Neither perform much better than a good hand loaded 7-Mag. Had they based these two off the 300 case and left it full length it would have been a whole different story. They stubbed their toe with these two. Personally I would take a serious look at the 270 WSM it's only about 50 fps slower, that's what Mrs. B will be shooting this year. Now with that said, I have to admit there"s just something about a Weatherby, been a fan damn near all my life.

I'd say GET ONE, if you can find one of the early Weatherby rifles with a wood stock. They even used mesquite for a limited production run.

Think I'm going to hold off on this one. I've never reloaded before and have lots of guns. Think I'm going to jump into some good reloading equipment with the toy money burning through my pocket. Getting it all set up and learning how to use it should keep me busy for a while.

Neither round is that great over the standard variants

Get either a .257 wby or the 6.5-.300

I think you made a wise decision; as a fan of Weatherby calibers(not their rifles); I can tell you that if you own a lot of guns, especially rifles that you like to shoot often that reloading is enjoyable and extremely good for your wallet in the long run.

When I was 16 I bought my first reloading set up which consisted of a Lee Anniversary kit, .270win dies, components(powder, primers, bullets), and a set of calipers..... I loaded my first 100rnds of .270win with the exact same bullet I was buying in Federal Premium ammo and the savings paid for all my reloading set up and then some.

I mention this because reloading is what got me into Weatherby cartridges, After all I could load a box of .300wby for 1/4th of what it cost to buy the factory rounds with the same projectile..... And as stated by others the ammo can be hard to find at times, so if you keep components on hand that's one problem you never have to worry about.