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Hard to beat a 130gr Partition at 3100+ fps.

Federal Premium 130gr nosler ballistic tips. But they are a bit pricey.

Wisdom...

I haven't used it much in the past 15 years, but for a long time I used the 140 Hornady BTSP from a 24" M70 standard rifle. 58 grains of H4831 clocked 3020, with really fine accuracy. 58 of RL22 gave 3060 but the accuracy wasn't quite as good.

That particular Hornady bullet usually didn't come out of a deer looking like a magazine ad, but if it did stop in the animal it was unfailingly balled up under the hide on the far side of a very dead critter.

140 gn hndy btsp max charge re19

The .270s daddy has always worked for me.

I agree with the Guys on the 58.5-60grns of H4831/sc and the 130's. My lil Original Ti shoots 130 SST's with 59.5grns and 130 core lokts PRETTY darn good!!!!
I'll have to try this load.........

I had a pre-64 Win model 70 ( 1953 mfg date) 270 Win.

150 grain flat base Hornady spitzers over a solid, but non-max load AA3100 would produce dime-sized groups at 100 yards and quarter-sized groups at 200 yards.

Remmington core loks 130s.

Favorite factory load is the Winchester 150 gr. Powerpoint, has been excellent in every respect and you get reasonably good brass from it. Favorite reload has been 57.5 grains of H4831 under a 150 gr. Speer Hotcor or Nosler Partition.

130gr Speer GS over 60gr IMR7828 has killed more deer for me than any other round...

I also used the Hornady 130 gr. spire point some loaded down to 2600 fps for a woods load.

IMR 4350 and a130 Partition, it mows down pigs and deer.

Wpgtkd: You have hit the proverbial nail on the head!
I have been using the wonderful (lethal and accurate!) Nosler 130 grain Ballistic Tips a lot over the last 15 years on Whitetails, Antelope and Mule Deer - IIRC I don't remember having to use a follow-up shot on any of these harvests!
I do specifically recall that the last 5 years straight I have killed a LARGE bodied Whitetail each year, with one shot a piece, at ranges out to 400 yards.
Its hard for me to imagine a better performing bullet on Whitetails than the 130 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip.
Again VERY accurate and VERY lethal.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

VarmintGuy. Sounds like you have whacked a deer or two with the ballistic tip. Have you noticed any change in their performance in the last couple years? Of course there was the designation a few years back between varmint and hunting ballistic tips. Aside from that,have you seen any difference in their "on game" performance? I should ,and may,start a designated thread for this conversation. Your experience with them prompted me to ask though.

Personally I've been seeing more,lots more copper left behind in seasoned barrels with .277 + .308 BTs the last couple years. I've had what I consider a failure with a .30 150 grain on a whitetail. Which prompted me to do a quick jug test of a 165 gr. Horrible! Basically nothing left of it in the 4th jug. At 100 yards not muzzle distance. I just don't know what to think. My old gold standard hunting bullet has left me scratching my head.

Thanks!

140 NAB over a very healthy dose of H4831. Good for about anything.

130 grain Ballistic Tip or Sierra Game King depending on which your rifle shoots best. Dont over look 55 grains of IMR 4350.

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I have had good luck with the 130 grain Speer Hot Cor and pushed with 54 grains of Ramshot Hunter.

As another option from the 4350s and 4831s, a max load of Winchester 760 will work pretty well, too.

Back when I could get the old RP Bronze Point component bullets, I'd put them on top of a stiff charge of 760 and killed a bunch of deer with that load. I never chrono-ed it, but it shot to the same POI of 4831 loads, AND metered really well, too.

Those old BronzePoints always worked for me, but some people have had them fail to expand, or, so I'm told. I liked that there was no nose deformation in the magazine, something my old 77R liked to do. I cannot recall any deer moving out of their footprints after hitting them with a BronzePoint.