I keep asking myself the same question, curious if the readers on the forum would provide some answers. I am a fan of the .270 Ackley Improved. From my stand point it is a great cartridge that is a great round for hunting whitetail deer and game of the same size and category. I always look for any information/articles referencing this cartridge, yet there really is not too much information relating to the cartridge. I recently contacted the folks at HANDLOADER Ammunition and Reloading Journal. When I asked the personnel there about any articles relative to the .270 Ackley the representative said he would look into past articles. He came back only to tell me that they only made reference, way back in 1990, to the .270 Ackley Improved "magnum", and no articles "at all" in reference to the .270 Ackley Improved. This cartridge bridges a number of cartridges, including the high-speed 26 and 27 Noslers, runs along the same ballistics of the 7mm RemMag and the .270 Weatherby magnum or better, only using a lot less powder. Yet... none of the big-gun manufacturers have given it any interest of mention. I have experience with two rifles that we had made a number of years ago using 26 inch, 1:10 Lilja barrels. I know there are some hard-core followers of the .270 AI who have rifles with 1:8 twist barrels who are hurling the heavy, high BC bullets and who are very happy with the round. We get between 3100-3300fps with 150gr Nosler ABLRs, and the rifles are tack drivers. The 3100fps seems to be in the node for our particular rifles, and... the brass seems to hold up better than the 3300fps load. I consider this round to be like a .270 WSM/6.8 Western on steroids. Although these rifles have been around for a number of years now, we have only now started to play with the 130gr and 140gr bullets. From what I remember P.O. Ackley stated that the .270 Winchester cartridge was already too overbored to bother improving, but...that was many years ago and there has been a tremendous amount of improvement to the many powders that are out there and available. I am just curious about what other readers thoughts are on this subject? I have posted an older photo that I have posted on the forum before just for reference. We call our rifles "two shot" rifles because the barrels are profiled after the original Ruger 77 barrel contour. After two shots the shots start to open up, so we stick to the two-shot groups.
