shooting moose with .270 WIN caliber?

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Hi,

I have nice tikka t3 lite blued in .270 Win that shoots 1 inch at 100 m with 150 GR bullet and do not want to buy extra rife in 30-06 caliber. I am not sure, but it seams that 150 GB is too small for moose? Does some has good (or bad) experience shooting moose with 150GR bullets?
According to HOGDON you can load .270 win with up 160gr and up to 180Gr bullets.
Does anyone loaded .270 win with 160gr or 180 gr? How does it shoot? any recopies to tikka t3 like blued with 160gr or 180gr?

Thanks,
Joe
 
Not only is the .270/150 gr bullet excellent for moose, the 130 works too. The heavy 160 and 180 gr .270 slugs are getting tough to find. If you can find 180 gr Barnes Originals, Jack O'Conner's load was 56 grs of H-4831. O'Conner claimed the 130 gr bullet was the best, provided you choose the correct bullet construction to the game, be it javelina or Alaskan moose.
 
I have taken elk with a 270 wsm and 140 gr Barnes (1 shot) I find elk are harder to put down than moose.
 
Are you crazy man? 270 on moose no way... Kidding

Check out Win XP3 150 grains. I use the 150 as they shoot well in my 270. No on game performance but I am very confident in their abilities.

If reloading a Barnes seems to have been recommended by lot of guys in the past.
 
Before I got my 35 Whelen, I used a 270 for moose hunting. Killed a large bull DRT with a 130 grain Nosler Partition. As others have said, the keys are shot placement and using a bullet with enough penetration.

Hugh
 
All the moose I have taken have been with a 140 grain Nosler Partion. A 150 in a 270 is just fine. Use a Nosler Partition, and stay away from the Barnes stuff.
 
SuperCub said:
Why the thumbs down on the Barnes? Many, many shooters are getting great accuracy and performance with the TSX.
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Because they are made of copper they are less dense and have poorer ballistic coefficients. Also they do not expand reliably and often go right through game. A well designed bullet expands, hangs together, and does not go right through. A Partition does that.

As far as accuracy goes, nobody shoots a Barnes for target competition. Barnes is supposedly coming out with a target bullet (Match Burners??). In any case it will be a traditional lead core bullet. They obviously realized they cannot compete for accuracy with a copper bullet.
 
I just bought a .270 with the intention of shooting black bear and moose. I was advised that either a barnes or nosler (partition or accubond) will fit the bill. Shot placement is key.

My cousin shoots several different calibres, from .243 to .378 weatherby, and swears by the accubond. I have seen several of his recovered bullets and was impressed. I think that i will be trying the 140gr. accubond in my .270.
 
Ron AKA said:
Because they are made of copper they are less dense and have poorer ballistic coefficients.
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BC to some extent is an overrated consideration. Unless you are doing some serious LR shooting/hunting, most of use could very easy get along with a round nose bullets for the vast amount of hunting a lot of do. BC looks good on paper, but few of us really take full advantage of higher BC bullets.

Ron AKA said:
Also they do not expand reliably and often go right through game. A well designed bullet expands, hangs together, and does not go right through. A Partition does that.
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I don't have a lot of experience with shooting game with a TSX so cannot reply with bad results here but I'd think a moose would be big enough to expand a .277" TSX.

Ron AKA said:
As far as accuracy goes, nobody shoots a Barnes for target competition. Barnes is supposedly coming out with a target bullet (Match Burners??). In any case it will be a traditional lead core bullet. They obviously realized they cannot compete for accuracy with a copper bullet.
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Most folks report using the TSX for hunting, not target shooting. Most results I've seen posted [incl my own] have been very good in the accuracy dept. My 375 will get 3" at 200yds, which is more than enough for this hunter. These aren't supposed to be target bullets.
 
7mm-08rem 140gr TSX from my moose this past fall when threw both shoulders and took out both lungs( looked like someone took a cookie cutter and punched a hole threw them) found sticking out of the hide an the far side at 246 yards, the moose made a couple steps and fell over. Opened up fine, couldn't ask for better performance. Broke one pedal off while trying to clean the meat out of the bullet.

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Because they are made of copper they are less dense and have poorer ballistic coefficients. Also they do not expand reliably and often go right through game. A well designed bullet expands, hangs together, and does not go right through. A Partition does that.
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I have used the TSX,MRX, and now the TTSX for several years,and I have yet to see one that didn't expand.The only concern would be when people select heavy for caliber bullets,with low impact velocities.Then again, that is the shooters own fault for selecting an unsuitable bullet weight for the cartridge and ranges that he is shooting.
 
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