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I have thought of converting over to LH just to covet your stuff

I have probably my share: 3 pre-64 M-70s and and 1 M-54 NRA original short rifle in 270 WCF. The first rifle was a lucky M-70, accounting for antelope and
Coues whitetail in NM-AZ. O'Connor was mostly right.
Now they may be chasing AL whitetails or back out west for mule deer.
The cartridge and rifle combination just works in early Winchesters. One is carrying a Lyman Alaskan in Buehler mts and rings.
I like to rescue older unappreciated M-70s. Latest rescue came from CO with a McM stock and 22 in barrel-a featherweight which has the Leupold 20 yr old
original M8-4X scope topside. A working cartridge. Do not own any WSMs and don''t plan to. Model 71s in 348 have taken deer to moose and have filled in the other part of the freezer.

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You both have VERY cool rifles...

I have been messing with my old 270 a bit with the 124 HH's. I am still scratching my head a bit on them to be honest, cause they are fast. I know they reported to be faster on average than other bullets with more bearing surface. I started out and have been using H4831SC in mine with WW cases. As of right now, I have used the same cases for 5X firings and can't see anything resembling pressure on them at all. They come out of the gun so slick and nice with perfect looking primers. Accuracy has been pretty fair so far as well.

Until I started bumping charges up accuracy was sorta okay, not good but not terrible either.





I got up to 64 grains and it started doing better. They say the Hammer's are insensitive to seating depth and at least in the 4 rifles I have been messing with, that is complete BS. They act just like any other bonded or mono bullet and want some jump.



This load is a full .090 off the lands and I just loaded another 6 ten thou shorter to see if I can pull it together a hair.

I did wing three at 400 yesterday just to see what they look like at distance and feel like it might hit an elk



I won't even list the speed as it might turn this thread into a poo slinging match, but a few others around this place are using them and seeing the same stuff.

Anyhow, pretty cool to blend out 2024 awesome bullets with 1955 rifles.. Those old Winchesters aren't too bad.. Kinda makes me wanna use the old 270 a bit more this year.

Y’all need to stop talking up the 270 or you’ll cost me more money. I own exactly 1. A 1968 model 760 that will stack 150 round noses like it was a bolt gun. I just used my last stainless action on a 35W but went back and forth for several months between the 35W and 270.

Both is the answer.. Pretty dynamic pair of cartridges.

Yeah, just get the .270 and that way you have both. When is more guns not a good thing? I have exactly one .270 Win rifle and it’s a Ruger American my wife won 10+ years ago. My son claimed it, but has moved to a 6.5 PRC, so I started loading for the .270 Win. I have even loaded up 165 gr. ABLR’s in it, but at 33ft above sea level where we shoot at it and they will not stabilize. I blew my first primer ever Thursday trying to test the 165’s and RL22. I’m going to go pull the remaining three and stick with 130-150 gr. bullets.

I’m tempted to re-barrel one of mine with a fast twist to run the heavier stuff….just because.

The 160 NPt is a bulldozer on elk. More so, it seems the BC is a bit underrated by Nosler. It shoots flatter than any of the ballistic calculators said it would.

My only problem is this load uses IMR7977 which I have a limited supply of. So I’m kind’ve hoarding this load in case I’m assaulted by any zombie brontosauruses….

Tons of guns chambered in 270. Lots of reasonably cheap factory ammo. Cheap brass. Big bullet selection. Eats most powders. Medium recoil. Flat hunting ranges trajectory. Probably the best, non army, no nonsense hunting cartridge in North America.

After 50 years of not even wanting a .270, but lots of experience hunting wth family and friends who used .270 rifles and demonstrated that it was a very capable cartridge, I finally got one a few months ago. Kinda by accident, it was a nice Sauer 202 switch barrel rifle that came with several barrels, one of them a .270. Now I'm intrigued.

I have hunted with other similar cartridges that I have a fair bit of experience with, such as 25-06 and 7x64, so I don't expect any surprises. For where I live on the northern plains, a .270 is "just right" for a lot of our hunting. Pronghorns, Mule deer, and Whitetails in the open. I don't intend to load it with any bullet weight other than the classic 130 grain. But then I don't want a generalist rifle, I will use it for medium game at medium to longish ( for me) range. It should do the trick.

For the other type of hunting we do here, Moose, Elk, and Bears in the northern bush, the 9.3x62 barrel seems more suitable to me.

What will make the .270 Winchester/150 gr./2800 fps. meat-gitter obsolete?



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A 160 grain at 2800!

Memtb, turns out that I have the .375 RUM loaded up with 250 grain North Fork bullets. Going to use the 270 grain Hornady's in my Whitworth .375 H&H instead.

Thank you for your info I appreciate it very much.

270, 30-06, or 308 and you will be able to buy ammo if any ammo is to be had. All 3 will do the job on 99% of anything you want to shoot.

I'd add the 6.5 CM to that very good list. Here in the middle of elk country, you can count more 6.5 CM SKU's on the shelves than any of the other three, and by a large margin over the 270 and 30-06. Typically second place for availability after the Creedmoor is the 308 Win. It's really amazing how the CM has taken off...

Load your own ammo , shoot any cartridge you want anywhere, all the damned time. Pretty simple if you think about it , ammo is your responsibility not someone else's.
Mb

Who pissed in your cornflakes?

Nobody Brad, just a simple statement of fact. Shooters need to move on from the mind set of some store or factory allways having the ammo they need, when they want it, for how much they want to pay. Ammo business don't work that way anymore. Mb

You bet, I hope that it works good for you! Good Luck on your hunt! memtb