Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting 130 gr. Sierra BTSP, going to use it this year

OP,
Given the choice between Sierras and Partitions for a hunt, the Partitions are always going to be my first choice.
The Sierra will never outperform the Partition. The reverse is not true.

Too many people tend to overthink deer hunting. It doesn't take an expensive bullet to kill a deer. For many years the 270 was the only cartridge I used for deer. My load was 60 grains of H4831 and the Sierra 130 BTSP. It will kill the snot out of a whitetail, and probably a mule deer as well, and I suspect a lot of other game has been killed with it as well.

Any reasonable bullet should handle any deer when properly placed. For as long as I can remember I have been taking mature muley bucks with the Sierra 6.5 120gr. The 130gr in your 270 is a no brainier. Squeeze the trigger with a proper sight picture .& you will end up with a smile. When tougher game like elk is hunted the Barnes TSX/TTSX is my hands down go to bullet .....

I've killed way too many deer stone cold dead with ordinary 55 gr. sp's out of a .223 to believe any 130 gr. sp. out of a .270 won't get the job done.

I used this bullet with IMR 4350 on several deer and hogs until my .270 was stolen. As is almost always the case with Sierras, it was accurate, opened quickly, and put the game down quickly. You can use this bullet with confidence.

You will not find a better bullet/cartridge combo for DRT kills on whitetails.

Yes it will ruin a little bit of meat but you will not be doing much tracking.

Never seen quicker kills on deer than this combo provided.

It doesn’t take much to kill a deer, that is plenty of bullet and rifle.

My experience with the 130 gamekings out of the 270 is that they don’t seem to expand as much as the 165 game king out of the 06. I’m talking about on deer and pigs. Both are great bullets for that size of animal.

My new to me Model 70 shoots the 130 Hornady sp extremely well with this load. Now I can push the Hornady a bit faster with 62gr H4831, because It has a long throat. For that matter, I could increase the charge of 4350 too, but no reason to..

I meant to write Model 700, not mod 70, ha.