270 Win. At short distances.

[Hitzy]

My brother plugged a young bull moose that snuck up on him last year with the 270 and 130gr Sierra game kings I load for him, maybe 20 yards and that's stretching it lol.
It was a head shot though, DRT, no meat wasted, couldn't Texas mount the skull as it was shattered, seemed to work just fine.
All the deer he plugs don't go anywhere either with boiler room shots, always 50-100m shots, I don't load them to 3000fps thou, 2750-2800, seem to be a good combination.
My 270 likes 150gr Speer Hotcores though, shoots them very well, haven't used it for anything yet however, always seem to grab something else.

 

[exophysical]

FYI the Fusion is not a c&c bullet, it's a bonded bullet made the same way as speer gold dots.



I really liked the 140gr Fusion in my 7mm08, could get 2900fps from my 20" barrel. The component bullets were impossible to find when I ran out a few years back though so I had to switch to a different bullet. Might go back next time though, I switched to partitions and the prices on those have gone bananas...

I'm aware that the Fusions are bonded, and I'm also aware of what that means. However, the reality of it is that particular bullet performs pretty much like a C&C bullet. I've honestly found that the RN Corelokts get good penetration and nice mushrooms more reliably than the 150 grain .270 Fusion, not that its ever failed to kill anything. I find this a bit weird because my impressions of the 130 grain Fusions were that they were fairly tough, which is my main beef with the Fusions and some other bullets... that the performance progression when switching between weights/ callibers is not always what you would logically expect.