what is the biggest game can Tikka T3 .270 win hunt ?
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A more modern equivalent but Craig Boddington will answer questions on Facebook messenger in a very conversational unedited way. He told me he tries to answer every question he gets. He also likes my 338 wm SAKO which makes him a guy with good taste imo
I like Boddington. I’ve followed most of his writings.
I’ve seen one of his videos which isn’t his most shining moment in his career.
He takes on a cape buff with a 480 Ruger Redhawk and the result ain’t good.
I’m pretty sure Hornady paid for that hunt and I tend to believe he dropped the hammer against his better judgement.
Safari Rifles Vol 1 and 2 are good writes but I don’t think the 480 Ruger gets much ink in either.
i you think the woodleigh hydro is soft ...
between the 270 and 7mm or 300 the 7x64 is sitting well ...
lol that is funny, my late boss Rober J montvoisin used a lot the 460 wea mag and when he was asking for the small rifle he was talking about the 378 wea ... i never remembered him telling about the 460 as medium lol but in those days most of the french guides had 460 wea mag in mark V ... they worked good as a back up but after i met Don Heath i paid more attention to the 9.3x62 and when in Canada Ted had to push not too far to get that love for the 9.3x62 back ...
I was 64 years old when I got my first 270 and it's a Tikka also. Just in the two years I have it never had time to even mount a scope on it. I keep putting in for a moose license hoping maybe before I am to old I can get a tag and find someone to hunt with me . I actually have 2 270s now but the others a Savage Axis so maybe it's not big enough as the Tikka. I read every word Jack wrote in several different books and magazines but just never had a chance to ever own one.
no, you need solids with sd over .3 to get there and impact velocities north of 2200 fps, you can verify this with bell (6.5 man licker and 7x57, look up the fmj loads of that day) and a 375 h&h 300 gr solid...the formula is consistent with what will work, it's not headstamp, it's not diameter, it's sd, construction and impact velocity for game intended, the only .270 bullets that do that now are the ones that came out for the 6.8 western but while they have the right sd they aren't solids so it's still a no for the .270 until you can get 165-175 gr solids it's a no, the .30-06 with 220 gr solids with it's .331 sd and more than adequate velocity is an overachiever and O'Conner's wife and some president I believe used the combo with great success
the .270 win will do very well here in North America though, and it does, I used it a lot myself and it's my favourite 20th century cartridge, I wouldn't be hoping it could protect me in Africa though, I'd be all over something else with the right formula for those much bigger people smashers, I'd be quite happy with a .30-06 and 220 gr solids for anything on the planet but I trust the numbers and it would be really easy to shoot well compared to some of those 'medium bores' lol
wonder how the users of the 10.75x68 and 347 gr bullet can read your posts when they killed and are still killing elephants with solid bullets ...
flying by the seat of their pants, at .277 sd and just enough fps out the muzzle 2200-2250 fps, the 700 nitro express proved to be unreliable at making the depths and sometimes only knocking elephants out with 1000 grain bullets at 2000 fps and .292 sd.....the 10.75 a little under 4000 ft/lbs energy, the 700 nitro around 9000 ft/lbs....the 10.75 has an extra 200-250 fps to offset the weaker .277 sd....both will be on the hairy edge of getting the depths needed on all the bigger stuff of the bigger stuff, they will be similar these two examples
I'd take the 30-06 with 220 gr solids over these two options all day long, .331 sd launching around 2400 fps...giant slayers lol, the other two here are like hitting them with sledge hammers instead of spears, sometimes the hammer doesn't go deep enough and rodeo probability goes up
the rules of thumb formula can be found for over there if you study all the stuff from Bell forward...you want ~.3 sd solids landing north of 2200 fps, you'll see why they don't like the 260 gr in the 375 hh for dangerous game and prefer the 300 gr solids...the formula is adequate, if not at the minimum edge of adequate, like all this stuff it's a range, if you have more sd you can use less fps, if you have less sd you will need to compensate with more fps
didn't know this, well if north of 165 gr starts you at .307 sd, to equal the 30-06 220 gr you'd need 178 gr, then the .270 would work well in Africa to defend yourself from anything but can't imagine the twist rates are adequate nor availability, and yup in the weeds
the .270 with most 130-150 gr bullets has adequate numbers for everything we hunt in NA, lean more to 140's and 150's myself, although one rifle loved the 130 fusions and took a big cow moose at 200 through the lungs no prob, she went 50 yards and laid down and died no prob, did the rest with 140 AB's and nothing going to stop those here
