270 Win Found My Recipe

[Shumba1]

Sure? That looks like a hole.

Yeah, they shot the deer in the morning and I met up with them a few hours later (I hiked a different direction in the morning). I specifically looked inside the body cavity once I saw the outside damage and there was zero penetration. This was about 3 years ago. I don't remember if they had to use a pistol or knife to finish off the deer, but think I do recall that it wasn't completely dead when they walked up on it.

I was just surprised that it didn't penetrate. Factory 30-06 ammo isn't super high velocity and it seems like 165 grains should be enough mass at that velocity.

 

[Lenny Foffa]

GOOD FOR YOU BUDDY!!!!! I load 3 different 270 rifles. Two Model 70 Win and 1 Weatherby Ultralight. The two Model 70 rifles love 55 grns of 4350 and 130 grn Nosler Ballistic tips. Great 3000/3025 fps hunting loads . Have a great deer season!!

 

[Gobbler256]

Shot my 270 Remington 700 ADL with 24 inch barrel at the range today and found my recipe. I am going to run 20 and make sure it's repeatable and make scope adjustments.

130 gr Sierra SBT Gameking
55 gr IMR4350 (max load)
Federal 210 primer
Remington brass

That's a three shot group at 100 yards! The others grains below and above where nowhere as tight.

What's your fps/velocity with this load?

 

[mrbigtexan]

I got my first centerfire rifle, a pre-war M70 in .30-06, for Christmas in 1958. I'm 82 yrs old, so I've managed to accumulate 81 sets of dies from RCBS, Redding and Forster. By the way another good load for your .270 Win is 55 grs of H4831SC behind a 130 gr. Sierra FBSP, with a COAL of 3.33" and sparked with a Fed 210M primer. This load, while not quite as fast as your 4350 load shoots 1/2" groups with all four of my 06's. I also use two presses; an ancient Rockchucker made when Fred Huntington was in charge, and an RCBS 4x4. I tried to send some pictures but my computer, who believes it is smarter than me, refused to send them. Sorry.

Are we talking about 270 or '06 with your recipe? It's early but I've reread your post a couple of times and I want to make sure for myself and for everyone else that reads it.

 

[SecretSquirrel38]

Are we talking about 270 or '06 with your recipe? It's early but I've reread your post a couple of times and I want to make sure for myself and for everyone else that reads it.

270 load. I am still working on my 30-06 loads for Hornady 165 SST with Varget.

 

[mrbigtexan]

270 load. I am still working on my 30-06 loads for Hornady 165 SST with Varget.

I was asking Keith Sheehan, I think he's talking about 270 but called them'06 so I was just clarifying for everyone.

 

[sjt18]

BTW, my "OK" for now load is Sierra 140 gn TGK in Norma Brass with CCI 200 primers and 55 grains of 6.5 Staball. I'm seated as long as possible for my magazine at 3.360 +/- the variance in the tip. I have the CBTO written down. It is fairly consistently +/- .001".

I've been working on 3 different bullets which was dumb. I should have just worked one up first then another. I really wanted to use Norma Tipstrike bullets since that was the best factory ammo out of my gun. Could have worked if I had just focused on it.

Again, I don't really have a "mentor". Just learning as I go.

 

[Capt Nag]

I think the "GameChanger" name is for the new Tipped Game King (140 grain and 175 grain).
The 130 SBT is actually called the "GameKing".
The 270 Winchester is very special!

I've shot those 130 grain SBT Game Kings for years. No need to change out what works.

 

[Ltbullken]

Wow that's as fast as my 270 wsm.

Your comment made me check my data, as I did shoot that a few months ago. I need to revise that down, the MV was in fact 3120fps. My H4831sc at 60.0 gr load shoots at 3160fps.

 

[SSG Graybush]

Your comment made me check my data, as I did shoot that a few months ago. I need to revise that down, the MV was in fact 3120fps. My H4831sc at 60.0 gr load shoots at 3160fps.

still that's fast. I guess I should push my 270 wsm harder. I've shot factory at 3300 fps but seem to find good nodes around 3150-3190 fps.

 

[Rflshootr]

When I used to shoot a 270 Win a lot, I used to shoot Sierra 90 grain hollow points out of a factory Savage 22" barrel at 3500 fps. When Sierra discontinued them, I had to switch over to 110's, which they also discontinued, but I had some on the shelf. Those run at 3300 fps. Both killed deer like a lightning strike out to 300 yards. Groundhogs didn't like either one of those bullets much either.

 

[VinceMule]

Rflshootr, the 110g Barnes TTSX Does not suck on deer. I shoot the same load with the Sierra 110 and TTSX in an old Ruger 77 All Weather.

 

[Ltbullken]

still that's fast. I guess I should push my 270 wsm harder. I've shot factory at 3300 fps but seem to find good nodes around 3150-3190 fps.

It is fast. Barrel length is 24" and I'm still under book max. I wouldn't go any higher than that, but, as both groups are sub-moa, why would I? I've used RL26 to achieve even faster MV's which I wouldn't publish but that powder pushes the 270 Win into WSM country! Oh what I wouldn't do for some RL powder, any of it.

 

[ARlife4me]

I found the 2 loads I've used for the 130sbt Sierra's.

IMR4350 @ 54.5GR
IMR4831 @ 56.8GR

I've been using imr4831 in the 264wm for 2 years before loading the 270win, so I tried it also with good results of equality of the IMR4350. Had the IMR4350 and imr4320 on hand for various bullet weights for the 264wm. In the unknown rem model of my dad's 270win and his pre64 264wm I've loaded the same loads since '84 and '86. Now have a 270win of my own (blr) I'll try other powders (550, 555, 560, grand, hunter to name a few) as I'll be trying bullets from 90-150grs.