.270 whitetail bullet shopping again, for the last time.

[Stgraves260]

This buck was shot at 705 yards same 260 Remington 140 grain Berger Bullets

This 290 lb ish hog was shot at 997 yards again with the same 260 Remington 140 grain Berger Bullets. There may be better bullets out there but I'm not switching.

 

[LVJ76]

I have had very good results with SST also. Like the 130gr if you want best accuracy from a 1:10 twist barrel. 130gr was the optimal weight for the 270 although most will get acceptable accuracy with 140-150 gr bullets.

You have to play a little with seating depth with the SST when using the heavier ones, the 139gr on my 7mm-08 shots great at a COAL of 2.80" ( magazine lenght). On my 7mm Rem Mag using the 162gr I had to play a little with it and got it to also shoot under half MOA.

 

[Stgraves260]

Sorry if some of the pics were graphic. I didn't take a pic of the bullet performance on the hog cause we gave it away.

 

[Stgraves260]

LVJ76 glad you liked the pics. I am trying to take more pics like this to share because people ask about bullet performance sometimes. I do strongly believe people want to put the animals down quickly and Humanely. Hope this helps you. Its easy to find bullets that work just close up. It also easy to find bullets that work good at long distance. It is very hard to find 1 bullet that does both. I have a great success rate with these Berger's.

 

[LVJ76]

LVJ76 glad you liked the pics. I am trying to take more pics like this to share because people ask about bullet performance sometimes. I do strongly believe people want to put the animals down quickly and Humanely. Hope this helps you. Its easy to find bullets that work just close up. It also easy to find bullets that work good at long distance. It is very hard to find 1 bullet that does both. I have a great success rate with these Berger's.

Pictures are what teach us how a bullet performs, so no I dont mind them at all, thanks for sharing.

From what I gather Bergers perform similar or equal to an SST bullet, dumps all the energy and causes if not instant, a collapse within seconds. Question, I'm curious if the bergers provide an exit wound like the SST? I am still to recover one, they always exit.

 

[9.3davison]

If Woodleigh bullets are available, I would give them a try. I have had good luck with the 6.5 160 grain ppsn from my 6.5-284.

 

[wv270wsm]

I personally have no experience with the regular 270 but lots with the 270 wsm. I've tried everything from the 110 gr sierra bullet to the 150 gr ballistic tips with just about everything in between . Except any Barnes bullet. From what I've experienced the 130 gr sst kills just about the best out of everything I've tried. I generally use a high shoulder kinda forward shot. It disrupts the central nervous system very quickly and still generally trashes at least a third of the lungs. These bullets do blow up with that shot quit a bit but they should hitting that much resistance. I do loose just a little bit of meat but where we hunt is crazy steep and private property surrounding us if a deer makes it on to the neighbors you may not get it back, depending on said neighbor. I'd vote the sst everyday

 

[smokey3]

I'm a huge fan of frangibles, I love Eld-m (used to be amax) They have a better "Berger affect" than Bergers do. I've taken a lot of mule deer and elk from 200-700 yds & not one got farther than 10yds. In .277 I'd try SST or revisit the ballistic tips and go for the meat saver shots, don't try and smash bones.

Frangibles definitely kill very well, and are a good choice, however I am not sure about the side effects of eating all the lead that gets distributed throughout the meat . I don't remember the name of the article right now, however it is an in depth study on game meat being contaminated by lead poisoning from bullets. I think it may have been a study from New Zealand. I have it saved on my computer.

 

[dogz]

this will really start off the day but we've found the 90 Sierra HP to incredibly accurate (stubby little dude that it is)....we've used it on a fair number of small big game like deer and lopes. Not beyond 400, but sub 400 pretty much all have hit the turf right freaking now.... Slip one in behind the fronts and viola, instant grill material

And before people get their undies in a bunch I'm not suggesting this is a load for all.

Personally, I'd have him buy a good 22/250 load it with 55 Horn w/c, 60 Horn HP and or 63 Sierra's then he'll get the one and done, down and out plantings at the shot that he's in search of!

 

[smokey3]

No fancy bullet needed to kill a whitetail, hell Remington corelokt has probably killed more deer than anything but ya gotta hit them where you're supposed to.

Very true, many a deer has been taking illegally by poachers where I live with a common .22 mag. Deer have been seen on my game cameras all summer, only to disappear before seasons open, ****es me off, but I never heard the shots, but have heard the neighbors brag about that big buck they killed .

 

[DENRIK89]

Frangibles definitely kill very well, and are a good choice, however I am not sure about the side effects of eating all the lead that gets distributed throughout the meat . I don't remember the name of the article right now, however it is an in depth study on game meat being contaminated by lead poisoning from bullets. I think it may have been a study from New Zealand. I have it saved on my computer.

I could buy that. Anything moving lead has touched is heavily bloodshot tho and gets trimmed off along with anything bone fragments have touched (spoils fast) before leaving the mountain.

 

[nicholasjohn]

I personally have no experience with the regular 270 but lots with the 270 wsm. I've tried everything from the 110 gr sierra bullet to the 150 gr ballistic tips with just about everything in between . Except any Barnes bullet. From what I've experienced the 130 gr sst kills just about the best out of everything I've tried. I generally use a high shoulder kinda forward shot. It disrupts the central nervous system very quickly and still generally trashes at least a third of the lungs. These bullets do blow up with that shot quit a bit but they should hitting that much resistance. I do loose just a little bit of meat but where we hunt is crazy steep and private property surrounding us if a deer makes it on to the neighbors you may not get it back, depending on said neighbor. I'd vote the sst everyday

I don't know where you are hunting, but the issues you mentioned that necessitate the shot that drops the animal immediately are pretty common. When you don't want the deer to run at all, the high shoulder shot will accomplish that reliably. The spine dips fairly low in deer in that spot, and often it takes some damage. Even if you miss the sine, there are enough nerves running through that part of the animal that a bullet through there really rattles their cage.

 

[LVJ76]

Frangibles definitely kill very well, and are a good choice, however I am not sure about the side effects of eating all the lead that gets distributed throughout the meat . I don't remember the name of the article right now, however it is an in depth study on game meat being contaminated by lead poisoning from bullets. I think it may have been a study from New Zealand. I have it saved on my computer.

I could buy that. Anything moving lead has touched is heavily bloodshot tho and gets trimmed off along with anything bone fragments have touched (spoils fast) before leaving the mountain.

There is a thread from a few months ago regarding this issue, here is the link:

Lead poisoning from eating game shot with lead core bullets?

I'm not a scientist but I have experience reading technological and scientific papers. That being said; Your first link was a valid study result but it really didn't prove that animals taken with bullets were a potential source of health threatening lead poisoning. There are several points...

www.longrangehunting.com

Me personally am not worried about it. Just trim the bad blood shot meat and done.

 

[Ramblin99]

Another vote for the SST. I shoot whitetails in seven different calibers with the SST. If I can't find a factory load, I have Reed's load some for me. That's how strongly I believe in that projectile. I've killed many whitetails with Accubonds, too. But they seem to run farther after the shot. Do some looking at the Terminal Ballistics Research site. They test everything and believe the SST is the most devastating bullet for whitetails, regardless of caliber.