Please give me your opinion on just ONE bullet for a 270 winchester. Use will be pronghorn, deer, and elk, [bleep] out of a pre-64 winny. I currently shoot everything fon 90 to 150 grains but I want one single load going forward

1. Barnes 129gr LRX
2. Barnes 130gr TTSX
3. Barnes 130gr TSX
4. Hornady 130gr GMX

Have used the above from antelope to elk with no complaints.

Then in no particular order of bullets I have not used and would try.
Cutting edge
Hammer
Nosler E-Tip

130 NPT

I've taken a bunch of elk and deer using a 130 gr. TTSX in my .270. I've used the TTSX in all of my big game calibers for at least a dozen years.

My family used 150 gr Partitions for years for everything in the USA. I would not hesitate to recommend it. As a 2nd the 140 Accubond is a great choice too.

I've really become a fan of the 140 grain Accu Bond in the 270. That's what I have loaded for mine for this hunting season.

+ 1

I really regret that Hornady discontinued the 140 HBTSP

So.....



CAN’T be a bad choice !!!


Jerry

^^^^^^^^ This ^^^^^^^ The first group is a pretty good list of the best bullets you can purchase. You should certainly consider adding the Hammer to that list! memtb

I would go with the 130gr TTSX and not look back....Good hunting .....Hb

I’d be very happy using nothing but a 150 Partition out of my .270.

Thanks for the suggestions. I believe I will develop some loads for the 140 Accubonds and if it shoots well that will be the bullet for the 270. Perhaps practice with 140 sierras to control cost but what hunting days I have left the 140 seems a seasonable approach.

Does your rifle prefer flat-based bullets over boattails? That seems to be a "thing" with older ones.

Best accuracy I ever got from my pre-64 was with 130gr Hornady SPs, but my son uses the 160gr NPs I load. They're DRT killer-dillers.

if it shoots as good as anything else, 129LRX

This is not a new idea based on the comments above, but the 150 grain Nosler Partition is all you need.

When a 270 win was my primary rifle, I used 130gr partitions for deer and 150gr partitions for elk and anything larger. Both were very accurate in my tang ruger. I suggest you try the 150s in your rifle. If they are accurate enough for you, I'd stick with them. If not, I'd go with 150gr accubond. Ymmv.

130 Nosler Partition or Swift A-Frame.

130 partition. Easy peezy

This.

I like the really 150 BT at 3K'ish in a 280. I bet the 150 ABLR version in .277 would do just as well.

The 150 grain Nosler Partition is near-perfect bullet out of the .270. Paired with about 60 grains of R26 I'm getting just over 3000 fps out of a 26" M70. You'll get devastating expansion and deep penetration. What's not to like.

Partitions.

You don't even need to know what animal is being shot,
It's always a great choice.






130 vs 150? It really won't matter much.

I like the 150 Hornady spire point with 53 gr IMR 4350, near max but safe in my Model 70 and very accurate.

140 accubond shot very well in two of my 270s with 58 grains of H4831SC and a Rem 9 1/2

Partition. Done.

Nosler 150 grain Long Range Accubond 150 grain over H1000 powder. It will kill stuff both near and far.

For years I used Nosler's 160 grain Partition in my .270's. But the LR Accubond has the advantage as ranges increase, with little downside on closer range shots.

The 150 gr. Partition.
Paul B.

+1

150 NP

+2. Reliable like the Partition, but will likely shoot just a bit better.

+3
Have yet to have anything walk away from one.

+4
Just an excellent killing bullet.

One bullet for the 270. One size fits all?


150 grain Nosler Partition

130 gr Partitions in a not-quite max reload shot consistently for me. was a killer.

Also used 150 gr Partitions in my pre-64 Model 70. small groups. Dead deer.

Have run Hornady, Speer, and some ugly 150 gr Remington RN bullets thru my 270 also.

Some were sorta interchangable point-of -impact wise. All were OK for the hunting i do.

The Partitions shot the smallest groups. Learn which of these shoots best in your rifle.

+5

140 NAB,

oh, I see that I could have just +1

I lean toward the 150 partition or 2nd choice would be 130 partition. I have found the 150gr partition to do everything I have asked of it on antelope to elk from 11 yards out to just short of 600yds. It has always performed and never let me down

Whichever one shoots acceptable in your rifle. Start with the "benchmark" Partitions and if they don't shoot for you go to the TTSX. I've yet to see a rifle that does not like them.

I have been shooting the 129gr. LRX in my 270 Weatherby and 130gr. TTSX in my daughter's 270 Win. I just purchased a new Vanguard in 270 Win. and will be shooting the 150gr. ABLR behind RL26 if I can find some! The BC of the ABLR is .591 and running 3,000 to 3,100 FPS should be a hard hitting flat shooting hammer!

I just sold a new vanguard 270 to a friend. I had never shot it but he wanted one load for everything so I gave him 100 nosler 150g partitions, a pound of imr7828, some cci 250s and 100 win brass. U told him start at 57.5g and work up to 59g. Try seating to oal of 3.275, 3.3, and 3.25. He sent me pics of some half inch groups a few days later. It should be clocking over 2900 fps too.

Bb

Whichever Nosler Partition flew the best out of my rifle - 130, 140, 150 or even 160. The 140gr Accubond would be a tempting choice as well. I don't know how many times I've found white plastic tips broken off in my box of bullets, though. Plus, a friend couldn't chamber a round once - the culprit? A broken-off plastic tip stuck in the chamber. That was with early 2000 bullets so maybe that issue has been fixed, but nothing is breaking off of a Partition.

A friend has does about everything big and small and past the point of debate with 150gr Hornady Interlocks out of his ancient .270 Winchester. My .270 doesn't shoot them as well so they are not on my list.

Partition

If I were going to pick one bullet for everything in a 270 Winchester, it would probably be the 150gr Hornady Interbond.

150g Nosler ABLR, B.C. .591.

I developed a load using this bullet for Daughter #1 using H100V. Velocity is 2910fps. LAst group size at 100 was 0.3" as measured with an enginer scale. (Calipers were in the basement and I was bein lazy.)

At 7000 feet altitude (close to the lowest altitudes of our elk hunting) this load retains over 2100fps and 1500fpe past 700 yards.