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Jeff: After awhile, you become ambivilent about calibers,and just worry about bullets...hit them right with anything good,and it's surprising how well many of theses cartridges work.

Jeff,
Laughing here!
You are 100% right, I probably will have a 325 in my hands.
It is just my little 270 likes that partition so well, and it did great for me on my Muley last season, I sometimes think about hauling that little 270 with me more often...

Bob, yes, I hope to hit one in the 'boiler room' or in the 'clockwork' as Ross S. used to say if I ever get a shot at an elk!(One of these days )

They are a big target, Tim. If this lug nut can hit 'em in the vitals, you can <g>....

I sure hope to find out soon.
I just need to draw a tag in a unit that doesn't have so many wolves!
(good luck)

1OntarioJim,
Is that the same Dominion bullet company that Jack O'Connor referred to quite often?

I can report some range results with the 160gr Partition in my Kimber Montana .270Win and a Montana .270WSM.
With the "old version" I load 55gr. H4831SC with a Fed 210M and get a velocity of 2746fps. Just beautiful cloverleafs at 100 yards.
With the .270WSM, using 60gr H4831SC and a Fed 215M, I get 2827fps average and nice 3/4 moa groups.
While last years cow elk fell to the 150gr. Partition in the 270Win., there is very good chance the 160gr will be making the trip.

I have generally found the 55 H4831 (either long or short) will shoot really wel with the 160 Partition. But any .270 Winchester that doesn't shoot any 130-160 grain bullet well with H4831 is kinda weird!

JB,
I kind of took 'the long way home' on that.
I tried RL22, RL19, and 4350 with 130 and 150 gr pills in my 270, and used them for several years, never got that great of velocity or accuracy.
I finally tried H4831SC a couple of years ago.
I will never go back to those others!
Guess I am kind of slow...

Come to Oregon! Got room for one more in our camp, always. Seriously.

No wolves to speak of, yet, but then again I can't say the elk hunting is particularly good, either, unless you have 4-5 points saved up.

When I think back to my hunts, the old .270 Win. has been in a lot of nice photos. From whitetails, mule deer, pronghorn, black bear, cow elk, Mt. Goat & Dall sheep. Makes a fellow wonder what I am doing with all this other "stuff"?
H4831SC since 1976.

340boy,
no the 130's I used were core-lokts. I found them just under the hide on the off side, mushroomed picture perfect. I'm sure the partitions would have gone on through. Either way they were dead.

That pretty much sez it all, IMO.....

Finn Aagard said in one of his articles that it just amazed him what a 130 gr. .270 would do. I feel the same way. I've owned and hunted with the same .270 since 1967 and have never had one problem killing anything I wanted with it. Mostly deer but quite a few other animals too. And it works real good on varmints loaded with 90 or 110 gr. bullets.

BRoper,
Interesting and good to know.
Thanks for the info!

Tim ask Yukoner if a 130gr Partition can cleanly take big game.Believe he could tell ya about lots of big game taken with that combo.

Huntr - yes. JO'C did refer to the Dominion cartridges quite frequently (for a Canadian product). Later they became Imperial and, I think, IMI for awhile before they disappeared.

In the early days we Canadians shot a lot of their components as they were cheaper than the imported stuff. In those days we didn't pay much attention to what might be a "premium" bullet, we just used what was available.

When I finally started looking for something "better" the Nosler partitions were chosen. To this day they are still my bullet of choice. Other products may equal their reliability but since I have enough partitions on hand to finish out my hunting career its not likely these other types of bullets will get used in my guns.

I'm one of those people who is faithful to the products that have worked in the past. When I hunted moose in later years the 150 Partition was my bullet of choice. This is what I used to take the majority of my moose.

Jim

Jim,
Thank you very much! It's great to know that was the bullets he referred to! Might you know what currently manufactured cup/core bullets would be closest to their design/results?

Thanks again!

Chip

Chip - Don't know this for a certainty but suspect that the Hornady Interlock design is very close. Hornadys are what I use the most of these days for practice, ever since Nosler quit making the Solid Base bullets.

In most of my guns I can make up loads with Hornadys then switch to Partitions without any need to change the scope settings.

If for some reason I all of a sudden didn't have Partitions available Hornadys are probably what would be used in their place.

Jim

Thanks, Mike.
I will do that.

Blacktail:




Tim: Course, EVERYBODY knows a 270 Win,with 130 Partitions is just........magic