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Should I just use a 270 win. with 130 gr. bullets or my 300 win mag with fast, light 110gr TSX bullets?
Shooting will be max. 400-450yards.
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Use your 270. I have on about 15-20.
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Whichever you shoot best! I have seen antelope shot to pieces with a 300 Weatherby without a clean kill and I have seen a truckload killed quickly cleanly humanely with a 243. None of those animals is gonna require alot of ft/lbs just a well placed bullet.
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Of the two, 270. Any others, 6.5x47 Lapua with a 129 SST @2925 or so.
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Check the wind drift at 450 yds, and let that help you make your choice. I'm guessing the .270 will have less wind drift even though it has a lower muzzle velocity due to the bad ballistic coefficient of those light .30-cal bullets vs. the decent BC of most 130-gr .27-cal bullets.
Without running the ballistics myself, I would vote for the .270.
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Use your 270. I have on about 15-20. yepper what he said, try R22 or 7828 and a 140 Berger and rock on. (but about any bullet would do just fine and the 110 TTSX would rate a thunk) Dober
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257 wby!!! Oh wait, thats not an option
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The good ol 270 is plenty. Don't really matter as long as that bullet hits the right spot.
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260 Rem. loaded with a 120 gr. BT or 130 Accubond. MTG
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270 hands down. Plenty cartridge, and its the Classic choice for Pronghorn Antelope.
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The good ol 270 is plenty. Don't really matter as long as that bullet hits the right spot. +1
Whatever a 7x57 can do a 270 can do better.
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257 wby!!! Oh wait, thats not an option Hell yeah! Love them Bees!
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257 wby!!! Oh wait, thats not an option +1 but 270 will do nicely.
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Never shot a blacktail, but I have shot more pronghorns and Coues whitetails with a .270 than with all my other rifles combined (and I have hunted them with the .243, .25-35, .257 AI, .270 WSM, .280, .280 AI, and .300 WSM). I like playing around with a lot of different cartridges and rifles, but if I had to go back to one rifle it would be either a .270 or a .30-06.
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I am with Prwlr a 257 wby would have been my choice a couple of years ago...but thanks to my EX it is now my 270 win!
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I aint killed any of the three sept the antelope and the .270 was the killin tool I used
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