270 military round

[leesecw]

 I was given some rounds from a friend that was part of the security force at the now closed Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda Michigan. It's at 270 Win marked F C Nickel Plated round with a yellow tip. Can anyone tell me what I have?

[charles p]

Not trying to be smart, but I'd say you probably have some very old ammo.

[leesecw]

No youre not trying to be smart at all. Wurtsmith has been closed about 15 to 20 years ago. The rifles these guys used around the nuclear bomb areas had barrels that looked like weatherby's with highly expensive scopes. I'm not a firearms expert on rifles and pistols. Some of the stuff I've seen on the web says this round will take you apart if you apart if youre hit with it. If you could point me to some other folks on info it would be greatly apreciated!

[243dave]

If the yellow tip is polymer plastic all you have is Federal factory loaded 270 win ammunition with the nosler ballistic tip bullet.  Their premium line used to be nickel plated(I guess it still is) and is still available with the 130gr ballistic tip bullet.  From your description I think this is what you have and nothing special.
Dave

[BUGEYE]

I thought the geneva convention banned that kind of ammo. that must be from someones private ammo stash.

[243dave]

The way I understand the Geneva/Hague treaty(whatever its called) works is that it applies to countries who have signed it also, that's why our military uses hollow-point ammo in 7.62 and 5.56 in Afghanistan now.  Being that his friend was part of a security force there would probably be less restrictions than if they were in a conflict/war and using rifles chambered in the 270 win cartridge(which is not a military round) would also indicate the lack of restrictions imposed plus I doubt that anyone, even the military, loads up the 270 with full metal jackets to be used in tactical applications so they probably had to turn to a commercial company such as Federal for ammunition. 
Dave

[leesecw]

Wurtsmith air force base had base security forces but the guys that I got these from were nuclear defense security guarding the nuclear bombs and such. They probably could get anything they wanted.
 

[Keith L]

This was 40years ago, but the Air Police that guarded the nukes that I worked with carried pretty ordinary 38 specials and M-16s.  Nothing exotic.  Special forces were the only guys I knew of that had anything out of the ordinary, and they had what was needed for the mission they had.  Who knows what happened since 1975.  I doubt it was issuing hunting rifles to security forces.  More likely they hired a contractor who developed a security system for a few hundred million dollars.

[yooper77]

Nothing special at all, Federal factory ammo loaded with Nosler Ballistic Tip bullets.

My guess is sometimes civilians guns and ammo are stored in the armory on base since dorm residents cannot have them in their rooms.

yooper77

[yukondog]

Sounds like nosler BT, I used to load them in 130 gr.