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This ain't gonna work is it? Ran some searches on here and didn't come up with anything for .270 winchester reloading, and was a little surprised it wasn't a sticky with the 30/06 and .308.

Anyway, I've got two loads that I like in the .270, both using a Hornady 130 g. spirepoint and Remington brass (both geared toward whitetail hunting). First, my full power load is 59.0 g. of H4831. Second, my squib load is 42.0 g. of H4895. Have killed whitetail deer with both. Last was a bang/flop on an 8 pt with the squib load. I'm callin it a squib load cause it seems to have about half the kick and muzzle blast of the full-power load.

Dug up an old 3 shot 100 yd target using the squib load:



rifle is an old school remington sendero topped w/ a leupold VX-I.

So what's everybody else loading in the .270? ive got some H4350 laying around here that I keep meaning to try, just haven't ever done it. Honestly haven't shot anything out of that Sendero that wouldn't group.

Been bangin' away with my 270 for 50+ years. Ran some 160 Partitions through it a few years ago. DANG !!!!


Never to late to learn something new.

Mostly 130 Hornady or 150 Partition over H4831SC or RL-15 for the last 35+ years. Got quite a few 140AB but haven't tried that one on anything but paper yet.

I've run IMR 4350 with 130 Speer boattails (deer) and 110 Sierras (groundhogs) for years. I'm tired of the chunks of powder in the powder measure so I got a can of Reloder 17 to try. If that doesn't work, the H4350 or the Short Cut 4831 will be next.

Dale

One rifle likes 56.0gr IMR 4831 with 130gr TSX, Fed match, RWS

The other likes 59.0gr H 4831SC with 140gr TSX, Fed match, Norma

Both are one holers.

Dale K,after many years of using both of the 4350s, I too grew tired of " the chunks ".

Try some Ramshot Hunter or Ramshot Magnum.Flows very nice and similar to its "chunky" brethern in burn rate.

I LOVE IMR4350 but I'll never buy it again.

http://www.ramshot.com

Mine runs on a diet of 55 grains IMR 4350 and the Horny 130 spire point.

Prints tiny little groups and flat kills stuff....

I like Ramshot Hunter and 140 grain Accubonds. It works in several 270s I own.

Jim

4350 and 4831 both worked well form me, but RL22 seems to have some magic, especially with 150s.
The 130 NP is about as good a deer bullet as is made, JMNO.
Tim

56.5 gr. IMR 4831 and the Speer 130 gr. Hot core. Shoots cloverleafs out of my old M70. Kills well and holds together. I used 54.5gr. of the same powder with the Speer 150 gr. BTSP a few years back, but the bullet disintegrated on a 15 yds. shot. 4 exit wounds. I used the Win 130 gr. Silvertip over 60 gr. H4831, but there was no expansion on a 110 yd shot.

57.0 H4831sc, 150gr Hornady IL, Win cases and Fed 210 primers is all I use in my .270. Works verrry well.

My m70 loves everything. My two go to loads are 140 accubonds with H1000 and 130 TSX's with lots of Magpro.

H4831sc and RL22

+ another for Rldr-22. Consistant 1" or less out of my Pre-64 with a 150 Partition.
Bear in Fairbanks

Mother and Apple Pie.....H4831 and 150 grainers....

That's why there's no sticky for the 270--it's so easy to load for, even a 280 Rem shooter can load for it!.....


oooh boy, I'm in trouble now......



Casey

at the urging of another board member, I tried Mag Pro with the 130g HOrnady Sp flat base. His load and mine ended up being the same, 64.0g of Mag pro= 3115 fps out of a 24" barrel, clover leaf accuracy.

Another load we shoot is 58.0g of Win 760 with a 9 1/2 primer with the 110g Sierra Pro hunter and the 110g Barnes tipped tripple shock = 1/2" or less accuracy at 1003375 fps.

I have five .270s and have had as many as seven or eight at one time. One load that has worked well in all of them is a 130-grain Partition over 59.0 grains of H 4831 in W-W cases with WLR primers. I switched to the same weight of H 4831sc about five years ago and it shoots just as well as the original loads.

Here is a great read on .270 WCF loads

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/2507470/1

guess I should have mentioned that I'm using the H4831sc. I don't think I've ever seen the old H4831 for sale, although I had an old can of it back when I first started reloading 15 or so yrs ago.

as an aside, I did chronograph the 59.0 g. h4831sc, 130 g. hornady spirepoint load out of a ruger m77 mkII (22" barrel) several years back. I was a little surprised to be getting just over 3000 fps, figured I would need to go to 60.0 g. to get that kind of velocity. But, this was in the middle of the summer, temperature was in the low to mid 90's. I decided at the time that was the explanation.

have not chronographed the load out of the sendero's 26 inch tube, but i have to think that it'd be moving a little quicker.

Higbean, thanks for the link.

I have an A-Bolt Hunter with a 22 inch bbl.
It really likes 140 grain Hornady BTSP Interlocks over a stout load of IMR-4350.