270 130gr Varget Successful hunt

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WhelanLad

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Hi guys, today as hoped, I got out onto a friends property to shoot a fallow or two.. population is high an the crops are getting a hounding by the deer, So my mates dad doesn't mind at all.

Anyway we went for a drive around the property this evening an spotted a mob of 6 fallow up along the powerlines, glassed from a K at first so we continued on our way hoping to find something closer.

By the time we got around the property it was an hour til dark, so we headed back along the track where we'd first seen the deer at distance from another track.


wasn't too much to this hunt, we parked a few corners before where we expected the deer an walked up the track an were able to pick one out an the mate shot him with my Remington 700 and the 130gr Corelokt reloads using Varget powder, from 60ms the deer took it through the shoulders, ducked at the shot an took off away from us..... We were unsure of what happened.

Walked up to the spot where it was shot an instantly seen where it had ran 20ms before sliding down the hill 20m off the track.

Happy days an an easy cut up an carry out.

Few photos.

The Rifle and the Quarry
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entry & exit
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PS don't tell the deer they corelokts were only going 2800fps :D

Cheers
WL
 
hoytcanon said:
Nice job... Are fallows considered game by sportsmen and pests by farmers/ranchers over there?
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All deer are Game in Australia mate, but at the moment most of the North they are Vermin species by state government, Im from the South where they are still classed as game although a stage 1 pest..... So landowners can shoot them however, but only immediate landowners.
The rest of us still think very highly of all game species.. its a little confusing.
To hunt the deer, red fallow or sambar in the south we still need a Game permit to hunt Private/Crown land but no limit on deer for 1-3-5 year licnses.

hope that helps Hoyty

cheers
WL
 
Pudelpointer said:
Just out of curiosity, can you explain "1-3-5
year license"?

Nice deer. Nice first pic.
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Yeah just a permit for a Year , three years and i think they do a 5 year permit but may be wrong. buying that permit allows you to hunt the state forest croen land.. without it you cant.
Some places we can hunt in National Park on that Permit too.
 
The .270 with 130 grain corelokts is a fine combination, and at 2800 fps is probably right on for smaller deer where you want to minimize meat loss. I shoot them at about 3150 and they're hell on black bear, caribou and moose too.
 
Northman999 said:
The .270 with 130 grain corelokts is a fine combination, and at 2800 fps is probably right on for smaller deer where you want to minimize meat loss. I shoot them at about 3150 and they're hell on black bear, caribou and moose too.
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Yeah northman, I think that too, I think it might help hold the 130 together a bit more with close encounters. and not explode the deers other side?

I have been thinkin of what it would do on the larger game, like moose/elk/sambar, would the slower velocity help penetration at say -100m ?

quite a difference in my guestimate an your speeds, I realise that's the powder choice but hopefully soon I can get a certain velocity from a chrono and have it known.

I shot 10 rounds or so this evening, 110m, to sight it in smack on an know what im working with. I shot like sheet the first 5 but last 5 shots were all in a horizontal line about a inch apart... im pulling off to the right? when I snap the trigger when im not concentrating... something to work on anyway.

the recoil is pretty mild and the report of the gun seems short an snappy .

cheers
wl
 
When I lived in Australia I wasn't into hunting. Now, every time I see one of your threads I get excited by the different deer you have down there. Thanks for another good one. Next time I visit Australia, I am going to see what it takes to get a non-resident license and hopefully, I can get out for Sambar or Fallow.
 
WhelanLad said:
Yeah northman, I think that too, I think it might help hold the 130 together a bit more with close encounters. and not explode the deers other side?

I have been thinkin of what it would do on the larger game, like moose/elk/sambar, would the slower velocity help penetration at say -100m ?
cheers
wl
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Honestly, I'd only be guessing, as I've only ever shot my .270's at maximum (or very near) velocity.

For what it's worth, I would guess that yes, reducing veocity by 300 fps or so with lighter cup-and-core bullets would likely get your bullets to hold together more and penetrate deeper.

Even at 3100+ fps, they still penetrate fairly deep anyways though, and a complete pass through on a big moose on a broadside shot is not at all unheard of, even with plain cup and core bullets.
 
The .270 Win has always been easy to select a hunting bullet for. That's because historically it was very close to being the only show in town since back when the Model A was a viable option. From a bullet makers perspective its pretty easy to make a projectile perform when they knew with near certainty that it would be fired in a .270 Win and nothing else. Its pretty hard to make a bad choice; 100s for varmints, 130s for everything else and 150s for the few people that didn't believe you about the 130s. Stick to that and I'll dare you find a bad big game bullet.

Its hard to say that about a 7mm or .30 cal. Lots of ways to bugger that up.
 
WhelanLad said:
Yeah northman, I think that too, I think it might help hold the 130 together a bit more with close encounters. and not explode the deers other side?

I have been thinkin of what it would do on the larger game, like moose/elk/sambar, would the slower velocity help penetration at say -100m ?

quite a difference in my guestimate an your speeds, I realise that's the powder choice but hopefully soon I can get a certain velocity from a chrono and have it known.

I shot 10 rounds or so this evening, 110m, to sight it in smack on an know what im working with. I shot like sheet the first 5 but last 5 shots were all in a horizontal line about a inch apart... im pulling off to the right? when I snap the trigger when im not concentrating... something to work on anyway.

the recoil is pretty mild and the report of the gun seems short an snappy .

cheers
wl
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Hey WL-

Great post! Congratulations on the hunt. I've never been to AUS but you make me wish I was there to get after some of those deer too! Especially since it's nearing -20C here...

Anyhow, I was thinking that the issue w/ your last 5 shots may have been as simple as heat. Perhaps the barrel was getting warm!?

Cheers-
 
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WhelanLad said:
Yeah northman, I think that too, I think it might help hold the 130 together a bit more with close encounters. and not explode the deers other side?

I have been thinkin of what it would do on the larger game, like moose/elk/sambar, would the slower velocity help penetration at say -100m ?

quite a difference in my guestimate an your speeds, I realise that's the powder choice but hopefully soon I can get a certain velocity from a chrono and have it known.

I shot 10 rounds or so this evening, 110m, to sight it in smack on an know what im working with. I shot like sheet the first 5 but last 5 shots were all in a horizontal line about a inch apart... im pulling off to the right? when I snap the trigger when im not concentrating... something to work on anyway.

the recoil is pretty mild and the report of the gun seems short an snappy .

cheers
wl
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WL, congratulations on the hunt, and thanks for the pictures.

For at least twenty years, the biggest moose I had ever shot, a bruiser not too far off 70 inches, was one taken with the old 130 gr Silvertip ahead of a stomach full of surplus H4831 powder. The 130 bullets really do work well. Having said that, there is no question that the regular cup and core 130s penetrate better at 300 yd than they do at 30.

After having seen a lot of big game killed, and having put many tons of really big game in the freezer myself, it is my distinct impression that I have seen more one shot kills with the 270 than any other cartridge

Ted
 
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