Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters 270 Winchester 130 or 150 grain Ballistic tips

MD, please put me on that list too should CRS decide he already has enough 270's!

I only have two 270's but I'd love to add a third...

I like this answer. One should shoot a little better in your gun than the other. I just did this at the range today. Although not a 270. I zeroed my daughters 308 with Ballistic tips. I shot 125's and 150's. The 150's grouped slightly better in her gun. My 270 likes 130's better than 150's

Interesting, in reloading for all the different 270's I have owned. I do not think I have ever had a rifle that preferred one weight over the other.

I have had 338-06's that did not like 180-185gr bullets. Had a 375 H&H that simply would not shoot 250gr bullets. Have a 1:8 twist 22-250 that only likes 70gr and up.

This.

I got a Classic model 70 in 308 that I shoot TTSX 130’s at around 3170 or so with RL 26….have taken 200 lb + whitetails out to 320 yards with that load, so as others have said if it groups well in your 270 it would be my choice. That probably would be little less recoil than 150’s I would think. My brother shoots a 270 and it packs a punch compared to a 308….a great caliber all the same Really no wrong bullet for what you are hunting in that caliber.

BOOM.

Today with a 155gr LRX, 302 yards, DRT.
Shattered onside scapula, exited between last rib and hindquarter. Destroyed the lungs. All I found was the blue tip from the bullet in the entrance wound among the scapula bone shards.



Thinking a 130 or 150gr BT would have had the same result, just more tissue destruction and meat loss.

Ain't enough difference to really matter. Shoot what you got, dial it in, practice, and go hunt. Too many choices leads to indecision.

Well...Here's 3 reasons:

Depends on which cartridge you're loading that .277 bullet caliber into.

🤣 Love it!

I do have some 150 grain ABLR on hand so might run them against my 130 Ballistic tips, both pretty slippery looking bullets.

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150’s! memtb

Just did!

Might also mention that having a potential back-up buyer is a good thing. Have kept a list of folks who said they'd like to buy one of my rifles if I ever sold it--and when I offered it to many (most?) of them a while later, they were low on funds, or had lost interest. Both of which are common conditions among rifle loonies....

I’ve been sitting on some 150 Interbonds that in theory should be a great bullet. Very high BC and very tough. Never loaded them because Re supply wasn’t available and I didn’t want to find a great one and not be able get them again. May have to give them a try now that they are in stock. Could make a great do it all bullet out of my 270 WSM if the accuracy is there. Been also hoarding some RL26 - perhaps it will be a good time to put it to use.

Might also comment that I just decided to go back through my hunting notes, and found that over the decades I’ve seen around 75 big game animals taken with the .270. These ranged in size from pronghorns and African springbok (which are just about the same size, shape and coloring as pronghorns) to quite a few animals larger than the 300+ pound mule deer buck I took in 1977 with my first .270. These included several caribou, elk and nilgai, a gemsbok bull, a bull moose, and a cow bison, which weighed close to 1000 pounds.

The bullets used included the:
130 Hornady Spire Point Interlock
130 Nosler Ballistic Tip
130 Nosler Partition (both lathe-turned and extruded jackets)
130 Nosler Solid Base (precursor of the Ballistic Tip)
130 Remington Core-Lokt
130 Sierra GameKing
130 Speer Grand Slam
140 Barnes TSX
140 Fail Safe
140 Nosler AccuBond
150 Barnes Original (pure lead core and pure copper jacket)
150 Hornady Spire Point (both pre- and post-Interlock)
150 Nosler Partition
150 Speer Grand Slam
150 Winchester Power Point

The only bullet that “failed” was a first-year 150-grand Speer Grand Slam, and the problem was quickly corrected. One other supposedly failed according to common belief, a 130-grain Sierra GameKing that hit a quartering-away mule deer buck in the left rear ribs at around 100 yards. The jacket was found at the entrance hole when skinning the buck—as was what remained of the core, which was under the hide of the right shoulder.

Both the bull moose and cow bison were taken by Eileen. The moose was a Shiras about the size of a really big bull elk, and was quartering away at 125 yards. After receiving a 150-grain Partition it took a step and half and dropped dead, the bullet ending up in the far shoulder. The bison stood broadside at 150 yards, and she put a 140 TSX behind the shoulder, about ¼ of the way up the body. The “buffalo” trotted about 40 yards and stopped, falling before Eileen could shoot again. The TSX exited.

The longest shot among those witnessed was 440 yards on a pronghorn buck, also made by Eileen, using the 130-grain Nosler Solid Base. The buck reared on its hind legs and twirled around once, blood spraying from the exit hole, before falling dead.

Almost all of the bullets exited, and those that didn’t dropped the animal quickly anyway. As noted earlier, a wide array of .270 bullets work on big game.

Very nice, hard to argue with that

RL26 in a 308 doesn't compute for me.

Might be a typo of RL-16....

Here is list of 270 bullets I have used and seen used from varmints to elk.
Jackrabbits, cottontails, prairie dogs, coyotes, turkey, black buck, antelope, deer, black bear, bighorn sheep, axis, hogs, caribou, and elk.

85gr TSX
90 Speer HP
100gr NAB
110gr TSX
110gr Sierra pro hunter
130gr Hornady SP
130gr Hornady IB
130 TSX
130gr TTSX
130gr NBT
130gr GMX
130gr Winchester power point
130gr Federal blue box
140gr Hornady BTSP
140gr X
145gr ELD-X
150gr Grand Slam
150gr Hornady IL
150gr NPt
155 gr LRX

John, Winnie 70 here…. my post above is a typo…. it is TAC and not RL-26….sorry.