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I have inherited my Uncles Rem M700 BDL in .270 Winchester. White spacers,front sight hood and all. He wasn’t much of a target shooter but shot a ton of deer with it. He gave me a conservative estimate of 1500 deer. Before you call bullshit, understand that he shot crop damage on a potato farm in Michigan from the early eighties to the mid nineties. Populations were about 75 deer per square mile back then. He shot mostly green box Remington 130 grain SP out of it at eight bucks a box so it was no where near hot loads. My dad loaded ammo for him later on and it was 130 grain Speer BTSP’s at around 2900 FPS. Again, not hot. So with about 2000 rounds through it how much life and accuracy should I expect out of it? When should I expect accuracy to fall off. The 270 is one cartridge I never owned and not all that familiar with. My dad preferred the 280 and I shot 30-06, 25-06 280 AI.

I would like to know that information too.

I would clean it real good and find out. It might even take a box before it starts shooting again. I bet it will have excellent hunting accuracy,and it never was a target gun.

I suspect that the barrel has not yet reached its half life. So, at least another lifetime of hunting left in that old BDL.

I'd stick some 130 grain Ballistic Tips or Sierras on top of 55 grains of 4350 and I'd know pretty quick if it'll shoot.

This ^^^^ Scrub it out and go shoot. See what happens...

H or IMR.? I have both. I think what he loaded was 58 gr. Of IMR 4831 and a CCI 200

That’s what I’m hoping for. Thinking I might get a reasonable composite stock for it, new base and rings and hunt it.

Bingo!! Runnit til it pukes! It's got plenty of life left I bet.

IMR 4350 (55gr) and just about any 130 pill is one of the best go-to loads.

Count me in with these fellas.

Get you a good 130 grain bullet and load it with 60 grains of H4831. My Model 700 Classic absolutely loves that load.

Maybe about half way through your Grandson's use of it.



Smart men.

IMR is the classic load, but you'll hit paydirt with H pretty close to there too.

Work up of course, yadda yadda.

130bt on top of 59 grains of h4831sc...if it doesn't shoot that well, I don't know what to tell ya. Oh yeah, work up to it. That's max load but I've never had a single issue out of my 700 mountain with it.

Thanks everyone. I truly want to go out and hunt with this gun. My dad has owned a couple of different 280's and his last was a Browning A-Bolt with that goofy BOSS on the barrel. Works but is about as good looking as the old Poly Choke fangled thing they put on shotguns. Not a fan. This 270 was "the one" gun I remember my Uncle Frank using. The other that he used was my other Uncle's Sears built by Winchester 270. I do remember back in the day holding the spot light for my Uncle as he knocked over deer for crop damage at distances that amazed me when I was younger. Lots of good memories. Still impressive when I think about it. Knocking over deer across a forty+ acre field in the dark by spotlight while lying prone on the roof of an old 1970 something dodge van. It was one of those "church van" looking things with a 318 CI V8 and we pulled the back couple rows of seats out. It had some sort a roof rack on it so we could sit up there going from field to field without falling off. My Unle Milt drove and my dad rode shotgun. We had a ton of crop damage tags and deer were 75 a sq. mile in the 80's. The man could gut, skin and butcher a deer faster than anyone I had ever seen or have seen since. I even have his well worn folding Case knife that he used. You can't imagine how much fun that was back then. Some may disagree with crop damage hunting but it never really made a dent. Nothing did until the wolves were planted in 1993 ish. Then it became a moonscape as far as deer were concerned.

I have a LH BDL in .270 with about a 1000 rounds through it, Still shoots moa with any 130 gr. bullet. The best load is a 130 Ballistic tip in Winchester brass with a cci 200, and 60 gr. H 4831, 3030 FPS, one hole 3/8 to 1/2 inch at 100 yards. The factory stock is the best stock as the Remington barrel shoots best with a little up pressure at the end of the forearm. I put a Brown precision on mine and went back to the wood factory stock. I also have a shilen trigger which doesn't hurt. Just sayin'. Good luck.