im not sure if that 270 is still at cabelas, but the reason i was leaning towards the 270 is because i was afraid of the recoil a 30-06 would produce until this morning i went to the range and i got to shoot my friends 30-06. man was i shaking when i got behind the gun, the reason i was so nervous was because i had seen a couple videos on you tube where people shooting the 30-06 get hit by the scope, but once i squeezed off the first round i realized i had scared my self for no reason the recoil really dont bother me and i must have shot at least 40 rounds trough the 30 and no sore shoulder !!! and my friends dad was telling me that i should get a new rifle because i will know where it has Benn since day 1, and that it will be my baby ( as he was telling me this he keep looking at his winchester m70) and that i will know exactly what has happened to the rifle, and that i wont know that with a a used one. so thats why im choosing between the marlin and the mossberg they both seem like pretty good rifle i just don't know which one to chose