Your Favourite .270 Recipe for Deer?

Federal Blue box 150's....my 270 shoots these as good as any handloads I've come up with to date. :)
 
The standard 57gr/IMR 4831 /Fed or CCI mag primer /Win or Fed brass and a 130gr bullet............many deer/moose and black bear over the years.......Harold
 
Back I was young and broke I used a .270 Win for everything. I used 4064, 760 and H4831 and whatever 130 were available, usually Sierras and Hornadys. Things always seemed to work out well enough, and although I did hear that the choice in higher BC bullets was pretty dismal it wasn't that hard to ignore those pointing it out. That was a long tine ago and range estimation usually became the limiter before wind drift did. Most of the time neither came into play.

That was many thousands of rounds and a few decades ago. Interests change, rifles come and go and money for experimenting isn't that hard to find anymore. These days when we go shooting we are more likely to start at 500 yards or farther than try to make bullet holes touch at 100.

A funny thing happened; I came full circle and ended up with a couple of really nice M70s in .270. Since they are mostly nostalgia toys for me, I went straight back to my old loads and they worked as well as they ever did. Trouble is, the bar got raised when typical distances got doubled or tripled. An extreme example is some bulk packed Winchester bullets I got recently for a song, and was (Still am actually) happy to get them.

Load those bullets up a bit over 3000 and shoot them at 500 and the short comings compared to real guns with real bullets was painfully clear. STWs and .300 Wins with relatively ordinary Ballistic-tips and Accubonds and such were drifting 6-10 inches and the .270s were moving 2 1/2 to 3 feet. My iphone ballistic calculator threw a rod right through the Otterbox trying to make sense out of that. OK, there are a few bullets that don't give up much to another calibers and a smaller number that are great in any bullet crowd. I'm just saying that those shooters that knew that their best of everything fed 7s and .300s weren't wrong when they claimed to be in a different league than the factory load .270s they traded off. Also, (and you never heard it from me) the occasional 6.5 guy wasn't as dumb as he looked.

If you're looking to stretch a .270 out a bit, a 140 Accubond would be a pretty good place to start. 150 LR accubonds if you can find some don't have to apologise to anyone. If you are going to be shooting close range like 300 and under, you can use Flintstone slugs and likely never know the difference. Main thing is to have some fun. The shooter matters a lot mare than the ammo anyway.
 
hawk-i said:
Federal Blue box 150's....my 270 shoots these as good as any handloads I've come up with to date. :)
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My RAR loves 130's with results like that no need to handload.

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