Lets Split Hairs, shall we.

WhelanLad

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Ok, you have take the bait so far.. its reasonably serious Question about Opinions and preferences, none of which are wrong.

Say you have a BULL Elk Hunt upcoming, or is it Eland safari in SA? Anyway You are taking the .270 Winchester from out of your Safe!

Its unscoped and so you don't have a Load for it, but time is short and you plan on visiting the LGS to buy some Ammo tomorrow..

You get there an they have 3 options for You!

A- Federal ? With Accubond projectile (premium/ 140gr maybe?)
B- Winchester Supreme XP3 150gr
C- Barnes Vor-tx 130gr TTSX loading


Im a little bit over the Scenerio thing now, ha ha Although I would like to see some hairs split for your decision of which bullet loading.


Thanks guys..

(short of it- I have 3 factory loads to use.. going to use factory for few months and go again with reloads) excited about bit better fps


WL
 
Win 150... which I believe is an Accubond bullet... the little extra weight can't hurt when shooting large animals with a .270.
 
hoytcanon said:
Win 150... which I believe is an Accubond bullet... the little extra weight can't hurt when shooting large animals with a .270.
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The Winchester Elite loading is the XP3 bullet in 150gr, the other Supreme loading is the 140gr Accubond, used that one previously on Sambar.. pretty good!


WL
 
Leupold.
But I sure wouldn't put it on a cough............cough..........two........sept............0

I'd trust Federal over Winchester ammo.

C. sounds sort of cute.

Have fun no matter what you decide................:wave:
 
First of all I would slap myself in the back of the head for being a procrastinator. :bangHead: Then I would go to the local gun shop and pick up a Leupold vx3 in 2.5-10 or something.

Then I would do 1 of 2 things: either buy 3 boxes of each of the ammo you mention and go to the range and sight the scope plus test the various ammo for accuracy (or not) - or I would pick up some brass, accubonds and make up some loads to see what shoots best with that bullet/powder combo...

Now, if I couldn't get that rifle to print consistently within 1 1/2", I would throw it back in the cabinet in disgust and grab 'old faithful' to take out. :cool:
 
I like accubonds but none of the loadings you have mentioned is wrong/bad. I think you probably shoot select one, ideally the most affordable and buy a few boxes of the same ammo and shoot two or more boxes (more if you can afford to cash/time wise) and practice. Note where she impacts at various ranges on a piece of paper and tape it to the rifle. In my opinion too many folks worry about group sizes for hunting rifles. If you know your rifle only groups 6-8" at 300 yards, just limit your shots to under 300. Just my 2 cents.
 
Accubond are very potent, in 308 i shoot a Nosler Accubond 165 gr pushed at 2800 fps... Devastator round... JP.
 
I'd go with a bigger gun myself. But of your choices I'd go Winchester brand. If it was me I'd buy several boxes of each and see what the gun likes. Elk or eland are not cheap what's a few hundred worth of ammo?
 
For elk, pick any of the three.

For eland, your best bet would be to forget all about it. An eland can be the size of two or three elk, and depending on where you live and where you hunt him the trophy fee can cost about the same as two or three rifles. There isn't any discount or bonus points awarded for bringing half a gun on an expensive hunt.
 
Of the three, I'd pick whichever one the gun likes best. Other than that, I'd go with 'C'.

A nice Leupold FX II 6x36 would round things out nicely.
 
Step up to a 300 mag of any sort. With thousands invested in a trophy hunt, why would you cheap out on cal. and no scope. I can't make a 300 yd. shoot with certainty without a scope. Can you? All 3 rounds will work on elk, with the big IF.
 
Take the Whelen! That's what it's made for! 225 Gr Barnes TSX in front of 60 grains of RL-15 and drop the hammer!
 
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