Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters What 130 grain 270 factory load for whitetails do you Like the best ?I

That's what I used this year, first time I hunted with factory ammunition in 10 years. It worked out well for me, I use it from time to time to sight in a new rifle. It is usually very accurate as well hovering around 1" in most cases.

Federal 130 grain Nosler Partitions

I'm pretty sure this thread is about factory loads...

Having said that, I've seen more elk killed with a variety of 130 gr. factory loads than any other single combination.

Seen the most with WW Blue box.

Blue box.

My Sako Model 75 Hunter Stainless`.270 really likes Barnes VorTX 130g TTSX

Whoops; you said for whitetails:

who killed the baby ?

Thanks for the information guys.

Magnum Man
I do like the 1 inch Remington slings !
Thanks again !

Craig

Been loading for the 270 for 40+ years...except for about 10 years when was I traveleing too much to sit down and get it done... settled initially on WW PP's in 150'ers as a go to for everything in a series of guns, usually Ruger 77's or SAKO III or AV's after RP's left me not totally satisfied.

In the mid '80's I had gotten hooked on 270 150's when I bought out a dealer in Louisiana's entire collection of little yellow boxs in 5-6 rifle calibers as he was getting out of the Speer reloading business...or enough at $2-$3's a box to make the new '86 Suburban squat.

Later Fed Premium in SGK's @ $10-$14 a box when I could catch'em on Sale out of a Tikka 695 was the sub MOA berries from the 1st round, and almost as good were the Fed blue box 150's.

Today it'd be a tossup from what I'm seeing around the crowd in Fed Fusions/WW SP's or Hornady AW's for store bought's, as I've gone back to rolling my own after I retired.

My current T3 will put some blem Nosler 130gr FBSP "redbox" stuff all in one hole with a crunched load of H4831SC...just wish't I'd bought more than I did the last time they were available. I suspect that the BT's exterior hull that looks the same as the FBSP's would do the same thing....but the T3'll shoot just about anything better than I can.
Ron

Another vote for Federal Fusions.

I don't think you could go wrong on any 270/130gr load for whitetails as long as it shoots well in your rifle. My uncles have been shooting that combo since the 60's and have zero issue. Mostly old green box Rems but others have filled in with little adjustment. I've seen 130 core lokt's knock whitetails over with ease from twenty feet to corner to corner on a 40 acre potato field.

I look for 'yearlins' like that every year! <G>

Forget the buck, that stock looks great!

Is that a McMillan Woody?

I like the original 130-grain Winchester-Western Silver Tip load.

I base that opinion on exactly one deer kill.

That big 4.5 "yearlin" ran about 40yds before it realized it was dead; same result on 2 other mature bucks when heart/lung shot with the 130g TTSX from that rifle and 120TTSX in my 7mm-08. Dropped another in its tracks with the 270 with a high shoulder shot at last light. Very effective factory round. Oddly, the 55g TTSX in .223 does not perform as well in my 700 VSSF.
The stock is Sako factory French walnut standard on the Hunter Stainless model;maybe my most dependable rifle.

Hornady American Whitetail 130 gr Interlock.

I also handload this bullet in my 270's but shot some of this factory load and it shot to same POA and grouped well under MOA.

hummm

nah, just 'anecdotal' evidence. don't mean much! (SMIRK)

How come the fetish of temperature stability is never included in factory ammo threads?

For some reason, terminal performance is the main criteria sometimes but not always followed by accuracy.

Last time out shooting factory ammo I found Corelokts to be shooting extremely well which surprised me a bit. In the past I thought them so so a best. I have shot a lot since then- maybe I have improved. I used to bounce around and had settled on Hornady before reloading.

If I was going today to pick up a box I would start with the Fusion.

John,

Here's why: Very few handloaders actually test their loads at the typical temperatures they hunt in, and percentage of hunters who use factory loads who test them is even lower.