270 Win. At short distances.

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.
 
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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...
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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.
 
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I shot a deer broadside at about 50 yards last year with my 270 and 140gr Nosler BT. Double lung shot and admittedly a little further back than I wanted but the deer dropped right where it was and zero tracking needed
 
Adam77 said:
I shot a deer broadside at about 50 yards last year with my 270 and 140gr Nosler BT. Double lung shot and admittedly a little further back than I wanted but the deer dropped right where it was and zero tracking needed
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High enough to tingle its spine, or it collapsed on the spot from a pure lung shot?
 
Been using a Savage 110 in .270 Win since about 1990(ish), tried many a different bullet, and some have performed better than others .
Closest shot was a Whitetail buck at about 6 (six) yards with a Hornady Interlock.
150gr Fusion is my go-to for deer, and just recently bought the 150 gr Fusion Tipped to try out.
For anything larger, 150 gr Nosler Partitions
 
Adam77 said:
I shot a deer broadside at about 50 yards last year with my 270 and 140gr Nosler BT. Double lung shot and admittedly a little further back than I wanted but the deer dropped right where it was and zero tracking needed
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I have to agree with Joel on this, likely you were close enough to the spine to cause an instant "drop" by taking out the main arteries beneath or causing severe pinch on the spinal cord.
 
Except for all the times that lung shots with a similar (and theres lots) bullet doesn't make em dead on the spot....yeah

While it's an occurrence, definitely not one that's all that repeatable or to be counted on with a 270 and 140gr class bullet. Have had em run from same plenty.

270 Win with 130gr, 308 with 150gr, 30-06 with 150gr, 6.5x55 with 120gr....pretty much all about the same speed, all produced lots more runners than DRT unless central nervous system was touched. If speed kills faster, it must much more of it.
 
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Sorry, don’t know what to tell you. That’s what happened. I shot it, it dropped and did a few kicks and then stopped moving. It wasn’t high it was right in the bread basket. Maybe because it wasn’t a large deer but that’s what happened
 
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Sorry, don’t know what to tell you. That’s what happened. I shot it, it dropped and did a few kicks and then stopped moving. It wasn’t high it was right in the bread basket. Maybe because it wasn’t a large deer but that’s what happened
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This can absolutely happen. I’ve seen people dispute such things. But all that tells me is that they don’t kill much.
 
Adam77 said:
Sorry, don’t know what to tell you. That’s what happened. I shot it, it dropped and did a few kicks and then stopped moving. It wasn’t high it was right in the bread basket. Maybe because it wasn’t a large deer but that’s what happened
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Nothing needs to be said. It happens sometimes. Cannot be counted on but certainly happens

Sorry if you had the impression I was saying it could not have.
 
I have several 270s. In most, I run Federal Powershock 130s as they group tight and drop game quickly at any range. No significant loss of meat unless I put it through the shoulder. I find that the Federal Fusions are nearly identical in performance.

Sako branded loads were okay. They work, but are definitely slow by comparison.

I was a fan of the Accubond 140s as they shot tight cloverleafs in most of my rifles. They killed game and had minimal loss of meat as they had minimal expansion. Even with a heart shot, animals ran a long ways before dropping. Yes, they still killed but I stopped using the Accubond on deer as I prefer to see an animal drop on the spot or within a short dash rather than having to track and drag through the bush or a deep coulee. I like these Accubonds for elk as the bullet gets guaranteed penetration and there is definitely more internal expansion with the bigger animal.

When I inherited my father's 270, I tried his Winchester Ballistic Silver Tips as they were all he ever used in that rifle. The Silver Tips killed as quickly as any other bullet but they were rather destructive to the meat. I now run Powershock 150s in this rifle with much better performance and limited loss of meat even with a bullet through the shoulder when opposite leg is back further than I realized when I took the shot.
 
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