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That sir, is friggin' cool! Don't forget pics. Good luck!

Pre 64 Winchester either in 270 or 264 WM. 130 grn partitions in the 270. 140 grn partition in the 264.
Both rifles with Leupold 3x9x40's with LRD reticle in Tally eteel rings. Both rifles with Montana slings.

Feel free to not post in threads you find "presumptuous". We won't miss you or your presumptions.

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.264 Win Mag/4.5-14/140 VLD @ 3250fps.

Why mess with perfection. (is that presumptuous?)

My old 338 is getting the nod again this Fall.. Loaded with 210 PT's



Not sure what the back up to that one is going to be. Either the 300, 7mm or 270WSM though. The 270 and 7mm are shooting the new ABLR's pretty well. Still working on the 300 right now..

That right there looks like the perfect answer. I also doubt like hell that you would be needing a back-up

Yeah, it is shooting very well, this past year I did bed the recoil lug, in order to prolong the beating it was giving the stock, but so far, it shoots everything pretty well. Even developed a load with the old 275 grain Speer Hot Cors that come outta the rifle around 2650FPS with RL22. Not the most accurate, but still MOA or better at 200.



The only reason I would carry another rifle would be just to change it up. The 270WSM is a pretty lucky rifle. It has taken a few elk and deer, but being my smallest "elk" rifle, I tend to leave it behind more than I should.

Ah!!! Elmer's bullet, didn't think anyone used them much any more...

Yeah, I traded into about 250-300 of them. Haven't did anything but develop loads for them, but I can't help but think they'd be just fine for elk and such!

BSA, that is a great shooter right there. Load?

Gotcha, thank you for passing it. Any idea on the speed outta your rifle. I used a little IMR4350 working with the 210's and it seemed excellent, just didn't have as much of it, as RL19/22, so I stuck with those two. I know the 4350's are probably, about as traditionally excellent in the 338 Win Mag as it gets though.

Perfect! Yeah, I would imagine so. My pop's used the old 225 grain TBBC's in my older 338 Win Mag for a few animals, elk, a brown bear and a couple of deer too. Really worked well on all of them. I have a recovered 225 TBBC from his brown bear. Perfect performance, and while it took three shots on the bear, they were all in the lung heart, but just as others said, he kept shooting till movement ceased. I chrono'ed them recently and they were "only" running about 2780, so not super fast, but everything he took was pretty much one and done, except for the bear.

The Sierra's shoot excellent outta my Pre 64 as well, matter of fact, I can pretty much interchange the 250 SGK for the 250 PT and everything stays pretty tuned.