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New to the .270, my son will be using it on moose this year..
I would like to hear your experience with the 150 Grain Interlock on moose from the .270 Win,

Thanks.

I have seen used 2 of them on elk. Moose are quite a bit larger. Overall it's not a bad bullet but if can and does come apart if it hits going fast and strikes bone. A moose rib is large enough that I would not be surprised to see one break an Inner-Lock up.

I am 100% sure you can kill moose with them, but I would add that I would use a 150 or 160 grain Partition, Swift A-Frame or a Barnes TSX instead if I had a choice. In the last 50 years I have seen only 4 moose killed with 270 Winchesters and I for one have never killed a moose with a 270. But I did kill horses and cattle with a 270 several times when I was a kid.

So I would not tell you not to use that bullet, but if you can get a thicker jacketed bullet, or a Nosler partition or a Swift A-Frame I'd bet you'd do better. Moose are known for not running far after a hit unlike an elk, so a blood trail may not be as important as it is for elk.

Yet, for large game I always want an exit if I can get one. If I were going to kill a moose with one of my 270s I think I'd use a Swift 150 grain or a Barnes 150 grain.

I killed a Newfoundland bull at 200 yards and a Wyoming elk at 25 yards. The elk went less than 20 yards. Mostly gravity on the elk going down hill. The moose was DRT .
Both were behind shoulder, rib to rib.

If your son does his part, the bullet will do its part.

Have always been happy with the performance of the 150gr Interlock out of our 270's. Have never caught one, definitely stouter than the 130gr. Quite a few deer, hogs, one elk and a friend used one on his WY Shiras moose.

The incident that impressed me the most was on a 225lb TX boar. Going away, broke left hip penetrated length of hog and exited between neck and front right shoulder.

It is one of the bullets I would consider a do everything in the 270, and if limited to only that bullet would happily use it for all my hunting.

Thanks guys

Hard to admit but buddy in our hunting party has killed more moose with his beat up 270 & 130g interlocks than the rest of us with our fancy 7mm's

You will be fine

My brother shot a young bull moose using a 129gr Interlok in my 6.5 Creedmoor. Shot was about 80yds. Put it in the ribs at a reasonable range and you will be fine. That being said. when I had a chance, I loaded a Barnes 127gr LRX for that 6.5 Creedmoor. IMO, just more room for error.

Lots of moose die from the 270 each year. I’m not a fan of hornady bullets but if that’s what I had and they shot well in my gun I’d use them. I’d rather have a partition though.

Thanks guys!

130gr. Interlock outta my sons .270win has put down several elk. With ease. 150gr outta be stellar... If your rifle likes it? Do it without hesitation.

I’d prefer a 150 Partition for Moose, but I certainly wouldn’t stay home if all I had was the Interlocks.

Sorry if this is too far off topic, but how about the 270 with the 150 Partition? Mine shoots it at 2970 with Reloader 26. I’m considering taking it to AK for moose. I’d be unguided so bears are a bit of a concern. Would a 30-06 be better? Thanks.

200 grain Hornady on a smallish bull moose from 358 win. Impact velocity was probably 2500 fps. Massive loss of bloodshot meat. Shallow wound. May as well been a hollowpoint varmint bullet the way it blew apart:



338 RCM 225 sst factory load my buddy's cow moose. He is disabled, so I tracked it for him, packed it out, and processed it for him. Shallow wound bout all of 6 inches. Massive loss of bloodshot meat. May as well have been a varmint bullet the way it fragmented. Impact velocity of about 2600 fps.

Using mostly 358 win, 9.3x62 and my 41 wildcat off the ole nine-three using woodleigh, nosler partition, and swift A-Frames, I've had some of the most boring, dead where I need em bull moose right beside the river.

Medium to Large Alaskan moose, they stop 300 grain 9.3 and 41 cal 350 grain A-Frames:

Coolest moose guns I ever saw, was any beat up, cheap piece ah sht rebored by Jesse for less than a cheap home owner chainsaw.

Moose hunting is nasty on ah gun, keep it cheap!

Coolest moose guns coming from Jesse:

400 whelen, 338-06, 338 federal, 358 win, 35 whelen.

And then, the grand daddy of em all: the ole nine three.

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My father shot a bunch of raghorn bull elk and mule deer with a 270 Winchester and 140 grain Hornady Interlocks. Good bullet.

I have killed a hell of a Lot of Deer with them.

Dirty Harry

Just like deer, the interlocks worked remarkably well on caribou. Stating the obvious here.........deer aren't moose.

A few years back I sold a 338WM to a guy (a local Methodist preacher) who told me he had always hunted with a 270, but got tired of dragging his moose out of the water because every one he shot with his 270 ran off and died in the nearest pond. He said they always died, but just not quick enough! I've no idea what bullet he was using.