Load for a 270

Srputz

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I won a Howa 270. Was wondering if anyone has a good load. I'm a 25-06 man myself but figured I'd try it. I prefer Barnes x bullets but I'm open for suggestions.
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Box ammo: hard to go wrong with 130 grain nosler accu bonds.
 

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58 grains of h 4831sc and 140 grain accubond I've shot moose, elk, mule deer, and whitetail with them and been very happy. it is a max load so be careful
 

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That's the powder I use in my 25. Looks like I have some work to do
 

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I have experienced excellent success with 140's and Ramshot Hunter.
 


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130 grain Rem silver tips right off the shelf. My 1960 era Rem 700 ADL loves them and so does my wallet.
 

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58 grains of h 4831sc and 140 grain accubond I've shot moose, elk, mule deer, and whitetail with them and been very happy. it is a max load so be careful

I get better accuracy when I load 56.5 gr of 4831SC with a 130 gr Accubond. For my gun I start loosing some accuracy when I get closer to max. Haven't tried the 140 gr but I'm sure it would be a very good load. When I can finally get another deer tag I want to try the 110gr Barnes TTSX. Have read pretty good reports about this bullet.
 

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130 partition, imr 4350 is good.

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Averaging 3110 with 22 inch barrel shooting sub moa at 300.
 

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I find Jack O'Connors old standby of 60 gr H4831 with a 130gr a little hot with today's powders. I still use it for the 130 gr, but more often shoot 150 Berger VLD'S. I don't often make recommendations so I went in my gun room and took a picture from my Barnes manual. I push 150gr to 3070fps. Only shy 40fps from factory 7mm mag. 20170228_152331.jpg
 


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I find Jack O'Connors old standby of 60 gr H4831 with a 130gr a little hot with today's powders. I still use it for the 130 gr, but more often shoot 150 Berger VLD'S. I don't often make recommendations so I went in my gun room and took a picture from my Barnes manual. I push 150gr to 3070fps. Only shy 40fps from factory 7mm mag.IMG_3013.jpg

I also found the old suggestion of 60gr pretty hot. Groupings weren't measured in fractions of an inch, more like 3-4 inch groups.
 

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3070 is really nasty with a 150 grain bullet wow. Nice!
 

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I'll suggest not pushing 130 grain cup-and-core bullets to the max. Over the years, I've finished off about 5 deer with blown up shoulders due to 130gr 270 bullets failing to penetrate. All the shooters came to find their deer. Most were amazed at the penetration of my lowly 257 Roberts. 140 grain bullets are of course slower, and likely tougher.
 

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I find Jack O'Connors old standby of 60 gr H4831 with a 130gr a little hot with today's powders. I still use it for the 130 gr, but more often shoot 150 Berger VLD'S. I don't often make recommendations so I went in my gun room and took a picture from my Barnes manual. I push 150gr to 3070fps. Only shy 40fps from factory 7mm mag.IMG_3013.jpg

Barsness recently wrote about testing RE 26 and 150's in the 270 and was knocking on the door of 3100fps as well via 22" M-70 Fwt.
 


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I've loaded the TTSX 110gr in .270, I did not get the accuracy that I've gotten with the 130gr TTSX. I load it in front of Ramshot Hunter. This is the most accurate combo I've gotten out of my .270 and the penetration and the way the TTSX holds together is impressive to say the least.
 

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