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Ha! And Redding has it on their custom die list.
Have you tried to buy 260 brass lately? And as for the 270W, I'm looking for less recoil and longer barrel life.
Well...............it read something about .277 caliber so it caught my attention immediately. I do understand what you are writing about when you talk about building a "fun" rifle. A few years back I decided that I "wanted" not "needed" to build a fun rifle, and....I wanted a taste of what it meant to reload for a "wildcat" cartridge. I was going to build a .280 Ackley Improved, but I did not like what Nosler did to the round messing with the overall length of the cartridge instead of using the Ackley principle of keeping the parent cartridge!! So after some long consideration I decided to build a .270 Ackley Improved. For al the life in my I cannot figure out the reasons that this cartridge has not caught on, but it hasn't. So I built two (my son has a good father), .270 Ackley Improved rifles on Ruger 77 actions (blueprinted) with 26 inch, 1:10 Lilja barrels. I get 3300+- fps with 150gr ABLRs, but the rifles we have like around 3100 fps, so...it's 3100 fps it is. At 3300 fps the brass is not too happy as in primer pockets loosen up after two or three reloads. I built this rifle with deer hunting in mind, and if I win the lottery a mule deer/antelope hunt out west that accepts guiding "cranky ole guys"!!!! If I were to build these rifles again I would use the same barrel length and twist. I call them two-shot rifles because when they were built they were contoured to the factory barrel's dimensions; so they are a bit on the wispy side and they do heat up rather quickly. I have attached one of our 300 yard targets that we've shot with these rifles. This target is a 300 yard target with a 100 yard zero. If the rifle is sighted with a 200 yard zero it would be around a 5 inch drop at 300 yards instead of the 9 inch.
I personally don't see the benefit .013 difference from 6.5 too 27 cal and .007 from 27 too 7mm cal . The only reason too build a 27-08 would be too have a unique cartridge , something different there is no doubt the 27 cal will get the job done .
280AI
Mine should have said DON'T see the benefit…..
Thank you for your thoughtful comment, Alibiiv. Your 270ai cartridge definitely shoots as sweet as it looks. Did you polish the chamber? I agree downloading a larger capacity cartridge would reduce recoil, but unless there's frequent cause to load to capacity it seems an inefficient technique. Also, I too have a Rem 700 BDL 30-06 which I purchased in '65 because of its versatility. I suppose I shouldn't have used the term "all round" since I'm not looking for a rifle capable of taking every type of game animal on the continent, only those I'm most likely to encounter. Here in Mississippi that, of course, is Whitetail Deer. I've lived here for 26 years but someday hope to return to my old stomping grounds of Northern California (wishful thinking, probably) where western game would be more accessible. However, this is probably blaspheme, but which animals I may or may not hunt is not as important a factor in my choice as the uniqueness of the cartridge, and the fact it rings all the right bells for diameter, case capacity, and cost - and time at the bench.
Yep. Caught that one.
