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My oldest son wants to nuke some deer-eatin' coyotes with his tang 77 UL. Says he just doesn't want to followup on a death run into thick brush or creek bottoms _ plus practice field shooting.

So anybody have some good data with 100 or 110 grain bullets capable of bisecting a wild canid?

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I shot many pounds of Sierra 90 gr hollowpoints in my old .270 Win.

A max charge of Win 760 shot most accurately, but I cannot recall the charge weight. It was the max charge listed in Winchester's own loading manual though.

Don't use this bullet on anything that you might want the hide from! I don't think you will have to do any tracking with this bullet on anything coyote sized.

Oddly enough, this was the most accurate bullet I ever found for that rifle too.

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can you pm data, please?

Think we got a pound of ol' 760 up at the gun ranch. Have to hunt up some 90s. Any data with that powder and 100s?

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[Linked Image] This load has taken 3 deer at about 150, 200 and 280 yards and a crow at 160 yards. I'm pretty sure it would easily take out a coyote.

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Years ago, late 60's, I used 3031 with 90 bullets. Sure messed up a jackrabbits day.

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110 gr Sierra spitzers and IMR 4350 has been my groundhog load for years. I run 53 grains which isn't top velocity but it shoots 1 inch groups. There is always a nice big hole in the offside of the chuck.

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Thank you fellas, keep 'em coming. 130s need not apply, Grumulkin, but thanks. He wants to nuke them in spectacular fashion.


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When my wife started hunting we couldn't afford multiple rifles. She used three loads in her .270: 60 grains of H4831 with the 130 Hornady Spire Point (pronghorn and deer), 57 grains of H4831 with the 150 Nosler Partition (elk and moose), and 50 grains of IMR4895 and the 90-grain Sierra hollow-point for varmints of all sizes. All three shot close enough to the same point of impact that they could be used interchangeably, and while the 90-grain load wasn't the fastest possible, it was incredibly accurate, sub-1/2", and didn't kick all that much. It also smacked the snot out of any sort of varmint.

Since then the same load has shot very well in several other .270's. Velocity usually runs 3000-3100, depending on the rifle.


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I have always had great luck with the 110 grain Hornady HP and IMR 4350. Really splatters groundhogs smile


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with the 110g V Max, 58g of Win 760 shoots half inch groups, use the same load with Barnes tripple shocks velocity is in the 3350-3375 fps range.

We killed an boxcar full of jackrabbits in the 70's with the Sierra 90g HP loaded with 47.5g IMR 3031 with CCI 200's. Later on, it became our primary coyote rifle as the load blew up yotes almost as well as jackrabbits. You can expect groups where the bullets touch at 100 yards with 3031 out of Remington rifles. When you shoot a coyote with this load with the 90g HP, the entire off side is gone on the coyote. If you don't give them enough leade when the coyote is running, then entire ass is gone on the yote!

One of the shots that I remember as a young man was a shot on a crow that was taken at 325 yards. We pulled up in a farmers yard to ask permission to hunt jackrabbits on his land, he said to kill all we wanted. Just as he got that out of his mouth, a crow lit in lone small tree out in his field. The farmer asked, "can you kill that SOB"? The framers neighbors were there laughing at the thought of hitting the crow that looked like a black bird it was so far out. I yanked out the 270, laid across the hood of the truck, gave a little daylight over his head and squeezed the trigger. At the shot, the crow exploded! You have never heard such lauging in all you life! I got 6 farms to hunt on making that one shot! My partner and I killed over 3000 jackrabbits on those farms in 4 hunts + coyotes, plus crows. New Remington sporter barrels were $19, so we just screwed on a new barrel every year.

We killed 20 or so deer with this load also, but you really need to neck shoot them.

We also used IMR 4064, and IMr 4350, AA2700 with the 90g HP, but the 3031 gave us accuracy like you would expect out of a benchrest rifle.
Good luck!

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For years I used 90 Sierra's and IMR 4350, the 110's were a bit tougher (IE more explosive) on the yotes/chucks etc.

H4831 has done well with the 110's as well.

Seems to me I also used H414, Varget and R15 as well and maybe H380 years ago.

Not tough to find a load to shoot the lightweights in a 270.

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Thanks to all for the recipes and stories. Trying to organize all my father's reloading stuff and doin my best to shoot up all the old stuff. Pretty sure we have 100s and 110s in the .270 pile, but may have to hunt up some 90s.


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under 130 grainers.. I reach for 4064.. and I don't try to redline them either..


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That 90 gr Sierra is the most accurate bullet I've ever shot through my .270 and it's instant death and destruction on coyotes.

It's all I used back in the late 60's to mid 70's, as a varmint, coyote tool. I pushed it with a book charge of IMR4350, IIRC.
Might have to look that load up in my notes.
It doesn't need to be run hard and makes an excellent practice load.


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