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I've used them in 7-08 and 308 with the same results.....very accurate stuff.

They are definetly a good cartridge for the money. Havew a couple of friends that use them.

Have shot 9 of them into deer from a 30-06, 150 grain. Recovered none of the bullets. They did well--nice but not excessive expansion, good penetration.

I will admit that I'm relatively new to reloading compared to most here. Give it a shot and see how it does, at around $25 a box its not terribly expensive for factory loads.



One thing I'm not relatively new to is listening to douche bags.... And you sound like a used one.

One more thing for the record, it's "genius," genius.

Federal Fusion are shooters in my 7-08 Rem 700 Ti Mtn Rifle. I may work up another load to compare but I'm happy with the Fusion from the Factory.

i was going to post saying the federal fussions have performed very well for me out of my .243 but thought it's too far removed from the .270 to help the original poster, but i do have to ask (at risk of hi-jacking topic) how did you ever recover two of them? (distance and shot angle if you could?) i've used them now on about 8 deer at various ranges and i have yet to recover one. i'm not complaining, i just can't get one to stay inside any of my critters i shoot with them.

I have a new DPMS 338 fed and 200 gr fusion are the ticket. I can shoot sub moa on these. Anyone have any experience with the 210 gr in the AR platform?

Funny stuff.

I used them in my 300WSM before I cooked up my own load. I got 2 whitetails that season between 200-300yds. Complete pass throughs and both deer dropped within 20 yds of being shot. Good ammo IMO.

The Fusion website includes a link to "download our ballistics application" at the bottom of each product page, such as this one for rifle loads. Besides doing metric, it allows you to change the altitude, atmospheric conditions, max range, zero range and then it recalculates all the catalog data. It's free, fast and runs on Windows PCs. Here's what it looks like.



Federal has a similar ballistics application for all their loads. You can download it from this page on their website. Besides all the data, the box and bullet images are a nice touch.

that is pretty cool...

180 GR. Fusions have worked well in my Browning Bar MK II and Model 700 30.06 rifles. Great deer round and pretty darn accurate.

I was hoping someone would give a report on 6.5 x 55 swede Fusions, because I want to try them. The weird thing is the fusion loads are a quite a bit slower than the standard powershocks and it wasn't a misprint.

All good in our .270's. Accurate and deadly on deer and hogs.

jcc

Not in the 270 but in the 270WSM. Off the shelve its comes the closest to my reloads in accuracy.

pwned!

1 @ 125 ish yards and 1 @ 225 ish, broadside busting shoulders. Both bullets were just laying between the meat and hide.

Haven't shot anything with it in .270, but Fusion ammo stopped me from selling a so-so perfomer in .308. That particular rifle purely loved Fusion ammo. From everything I've seen to date, performance in most deer-appropriate calibers is entirely acceptable on deer-sized game.