Author Topic: Loads for a 270 (Read 1088 times)

Varminter · « **on:** November 19, 2004, 11:06:37 AM »

I'm looking for some good loads for 270 to hunt with.
If anyone has any good loads they want to share please feel free to do so. I thought this might save me some time in experimenting with all of the powders that the 270 can be loaded with.

Has anyone tryed the new nosler Accubond bullets. I thought about geting some of those to try for deer hunting.

KYODE · « **Reply #1 on:** November 19, 2004, 04:30:01 PM »

i used to use a .270 rifle for my deer hunting. got good performance from a near max charge of IMR4350 and the sierra 140gr hpbt gameking.

Duffy · « **Reply #2 on:** November 20, 2004, 08:19:08 AM »

Mine shoots best with just under max say a half a grain of IMR4350 under a 130g or H4831SC with the 140g BT.
Just remember to work up!

oliverstacy · « **Reply #3 on:** November 24, 2004, 04:05:17 AM »

Varminter,

Well here goes...

First good load was:
130 gr. Speer Grand Slam
IMR-4350, 53.1 grs.
Standard CCI Primer
Winchester Case
Grouped around .800"

Second good load was:
140 gr Barnes XBT
IMR-4350, 53 grs
CCI BR-2 Primer
Winchester Case
Grouped around 1.1"

Third combo and one I'm hoping to tinker some more with:
140 gr Nosler Accubond
AA-3100, 55.5 grs.
CCI BR-2 Primer
Winchester Case
Grouped around .750"

All groups are 5 shot groups at 100 yards.

I have killed 5 deer with the Grand slams, four does and a small buck. All bullets did their jobs with good penetration.

I did a lot of work at the range with the Accubonds this fall and liked what I saw. Killed two nice 8 points and the bullets worked great. The first buck was at 150 yards and dropped in it's tracks. Hit him in the base of the neck and bullet passed through the spine and exit other side. Second buck was around 125 yards and quartering slightly to me. Bullet entered through the front leg and exited just behind the last rib. Bullet put a 2" hole through the heart and seemed to hold together well. I say this because it didn't have the explosive look some of the Ballistic Tip shots I've seen had. Friend of mine shoots Winchester 130 gr BST. He's a quadriplegic that hunts primarily from his truck and I hunt with him often. I have field dressed around 15 deer over the years for him and saw much less damage with my Accubonds. Granted the shot count is 2 to 15. He also liked what he saw and wants me to load the same bullet for his gun.

By the way my gun is a Win. Model 70 with a 22" barrel.

Hope this helps,

Josh

mikemayberry · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2004, 07:48:19 AM »

I am fairly new to reloading but have been successful with my .44 Magnums.

What I am looking at for my first rifle reload is the .270 Win for my 24" Encore. My reading of several manuals indicates that IMR 4831 is one of the most accurate powders and I am going to load 140 Accubonds to see what they will do. Seems to be between 49.5 grains up to about 56 grains with the lower to mid-ranges indicated as most accurate.

Will report back when I know more. Middle of deer season is not really the right time to begin a reloading project. Need to be hunting.

Mike

Elwood · « **Reply #5 on:** November 24, 2004, 11:27:28 AM »

Hunting deer with a 270 win, you don't need premium bullets. I have killed more deer than I have fingers using the Sierra 130 grain boattail. I have never needed to shoot a second shot. I have shot at almost all angles ( no Texas heart shots thank you). No lost deer, no long trailing jobs just clean shots and dead deer. My shots have ranged from 425-50 yards. I have used other powders but my rifle prefers IMR-4350 53.2 grains puts three shots int .75"@ 100 yds, &+- 3000 fps. There is only one kind of dead, bullets costing twice as much will kill deer to the same level of dead as the 130 BT Sierra. This load is very accurate to boot. Save the expensive bullets for elk and use the money that you save to load more rounds to practice with because PRACTICE is what makes the differance.
Elwood P. Dowd

2eagles · « **Reply #6 on:** November 27, 2004, 05:16:44 PM »

I am using the 140 Accubond with a 51.5 grain load of IMR4831 in my 270. This seems to be the most accurate load in my Ruger. I shot a cow elk in CO last week and was very impressed with the results. The shot was about 150 yards on a steep downhill angle. The bullet took both lungs and the elk didn't run more than 40 or 50 yards. Of course this is only one example, but I like the load. I don't shoot enough for the price to be a factor and I will target practice with the A-bonds as well. Jim

mikemayberry · « **Reply #7 on:** November 28, 2004, 02:02:34 PM »

2eagles,

What kind of results were you getting on practice targets with the load prior to taking your elk? Just wondering what you saw when you said "good nuf!"

Congratulations on your elk Jim, it's nice to hear a .270 success on a big animal that everyone says you have to shoot with only the biggest calibers.

Mike

Bubba Jack · « **Reply #8 on:** November 30, 2004, 04:53:31 PM »

For deer I load 60 grains of H4831sc, 130 grian Hornady sst. It is a safe load in my Remington BDL SS DM. Its the max in Lyman but under max in Hornady. Shoots a true 1/2" Group at 100 yards and under 2" at 200 yards if my blood pressure is under controll. :grin:

I would reduce any load provided by anyone and procede with caution. My gun seems to like it a little warm.

IMR 4350 also give good results to many .270 reloaders, but I believe that any powder that has 4831 in it was made for the .270. Please be very careful not to confuse load data between IMR and H powders.

Be careful, load safe and have fun shooting.

Bubba Jack

John R. · « **Reply #9 on:** December 01, 2004, 03:19:44 AM »

I load for five different 270's. I have had great luck in all five rifles with 55 grs. of IMR 4350 with any 130 gr. bullet. I prefer 130 gr. Nosler Partitions. All five rifles will shoot under an inch with this load. (Three Remington's,one Browning, and one Weatherby.) I also had good results with the 130 gr. Hornady Interbond. :grin:

2eagles · « **Reply #10 on:** December 01, 2004, 01:31:17 PM »

mikemayberry, The groups I get are more how I'm shooting than the load or the rifle. I have some good days and some not so good. I'm happy when I can cover three holes with a quarter at 100 yards. Funny - one of my best days at the range, my daughter and her new boyfriend were along. I shot five nice and tight and showed the target to the boy. He was very quiet after that. :twisted: (2eagles) Jim

GrampaMike · « **Reply #11 on:** December 03, 2004, 10:47:42 AM »

2eagles

Good ammo for your daughter. Whenever she needs to, she can say "Remember how good a shot my Dad is?"

thejanitor · « **Reply #12 on:** December 17, 2004, 07:17:52 PM »

Hello- I load mine with 53.4 gr of H 4350, 130 gr speer spitzer OR same load with a 130 gr ballistic tip. Rem 9 1/2 primer, mixed cases. both shoot well in mine and 3 friends guns. with a little tweeking we could probably do better than the 1" group we shoot but were just hunting the woods in MN 200 yds is almost max where we hunt so we just go with that load.
In our group we have killed over twelve deer in the last three years with one load or the other... 2 bolt actions one pump and one semi-auto.
Have fun & be careful. Brent

Broken-arrow · « **Reply #13 on:** December 18, 2004, 02:55:30 AM »

The .270 Win. likes to be loaded hot. The load I use is over the max in the Lyman manual, but it is proven to be the OCW load. It has already been mentioned here and it was th great Jack O'Conner's pet load. 60 gr. H4831 witha good 130 gr. bullet. I like ballistic tips, they are very accurate and they dropem like a sack of taters. Yes they do lots of damage but we ( me and my son ) haven't had to track one yet.

anthony passero · « **Reply #14 on:** December 27, 2004, 08:55:13 AM »

I have had 4 270s over the years. they all seemed to love the sierra 130 grain prohunter(flat based) and around 60-62 grains of h4831 and the ww case. shot as well as I could hold it and right around 3100 fps. Funny thing is my old featherweight gave the highest velocity and had the shortest barrel. I agree you do not need premium bullets for deer sized game with this cartridge. It also shot great with the old nosler solid base bullets and partitions. I loved the 140 grain sierra game kinghollowpoint boattail also. Reloader 22 gave me fantastic results as well.What a cartridge.

Lone Star · « **Reply #15 on:** December 27, 2004, 12:47:17 PM »

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The .270 Win. likes to be loaded hot. The load I use is over the max in the Lyman manual, but it is proven to be the OCW load. It has already been mentioned here and it was th great Jack O'Conner's pet load. 60 gr. H4831 witha good 130 gr. bullet.

Actually, O'Connor wrote of prefering 62 grains of H4831 (pg. 80, The Hunting Rifle, 1970). This was two grains over the maximum load published at the time by his buddies at Speer, who listed 60 grains as maximum (pg. 155, Soeer Manual No 1, 1962). the reason for the discrepancy was discovered after Jack's death, when his reloading equipment ended up in the hands of another gunwriter (IIRC it was Gary Sitton). It was discovered that his powder scale was incorrectly calibrated, and when he thought he threw 62 grains he actually threw 60. Today Speer lists 58 grains as maximum with the 130-grain bullet, but that powder is different today than it used to be, and modern pressure equipment allows much greater accuracy in measuring alowable pressures.

IME the .270 performs very well when loaded under maximum. I'm not sure where this anthropomorphic characteristic of "likes" first became applied to inanimate cartridges, but it clearly isn't an absolute. I believe that some .270 rifles are more accurate when loaded close to maximum, but there are certainly others which perform very well loaded well under max.....I've had two myself.

Weatherby · « **Reply #16 on:** December 27, 2004, 04:01:49 PM »

My 270 shoots pretty well with nosler 130grn BT's over 55.6 grns of imr4831. I can cover the groups with a quarter at 100yds. I have discovered that the BT's don't hold up very well in timber. I hit a small limb and I could see the bullet just explode. Has anyone else seen this happen?

Lone Star · « **Reply #17 on:** December 28, 2004, 01:07:57 AM »

No, but years ago I used Sierra 130BTs on two deer and had them come apart badly in the animals. But, both were killed quickly so I didn't complain. I ended up using Nosler Partitions - that solved the "problem".

drdougrx · « **Reply #18 on:** December 28, 2004, 06:22:01 AM »

Hi All,

I use 59gr of RL22 with a 150gr nosler BT or Part. I get 2950fps on my ohler chrono and really tight groups >1moa. I use win cases, CCI LR primers and seat the bullet for an overall cart length of 3.355".

Sorry...I don't use 130gr bullets.

Doug

Jaydub in Wi · « **Reply #19 on:** January 04, 2005, 03:49:09 PM »

I loaded some for my dad's 270. I used 150 gr nosler partitions, 55 gr of h4831, win brass, and cci 200 primers. He used it to take a nice eating spiker here in Wi at about 90 yds. One shot in the heart, and he ran in a small half circle. Will let you know if we have more field tests in 05. Oh yeah , nice accuracy but no chrono yet.