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I find the barnes TSX is more accurate at velocities over 3000. Great hunting bullet but neads some load trials before you get the accuracy needed.

Surpisingly the rifling in my 270 is not deep at all ... some projectiles are seated quite deep and slower powders don't even allow enough room for a 130g bullet to fit deep enough.

I would also look into a good lubricant. The Lee lubricant is OK if you want to apply it every second bullet. Ask a the gun store.

The dies are usually right. The projectile depth needs to be set differently for each projectile. You need to measured how deep each brand/type of projectile sits inside your chamber till it just touches the rifleing. (not sure how this goes for handguns) then measure it and make your overal...

Go with Lee. It works well for a cheap setup. The kit has almost everything you need to get started. As go get use to it youd probably upgrade peices of your setup anyway. Better/faster scales, measuring devices, brass cleaner, etc. Also probably do some other tweaks and mods as you go along as...

Set mine up in my home office rightnext to the laptop. Bottom 2 draws of the filing cabinet contain all the bits. stays pretty clean and I can load while I am I'm on the phone. Also easy to find specs and read forums while loading.

I use barnes TSX in my 270 and find they dont group too well either... found that factory federlas grouped better. Really only wanted to use the Barnes for hunting. Tring out some loads with Hornady and Nosler for more accuracy ... hoping my barrel likes one of them.

Yes ... I tested out 3 x 3 sets of barnes tsx 140g and 150g and found the lighter loads were much more accurate. usually a couple of grains below the max in the book.

I agree with CoRoMo best accuracy comes from the projectile ... find out which projectile your barrel likes the best. Sometimes it takes lots of testing. Record all your rounds and groupings well so you don't get them mixed up. My .270 grouped OK with a whole range of different brands but shot...

I am about to try some Hornady's next week. 140gr SST's in my 270. Funny what you say about Federal and Remingtom ... I had the same exterience ... after trying out groupings in three of some barnes MRX and TSX hand loads ... went through 90 rounds of differing gr ... the Federal factory loads...

I vote for the 270 too! It is versitile and can handle a wide range of loads. It is not fussy with powders, if your going to try your own loads. It can shoot 90gr to 180gr projectiles (though 150gr would be the optimal for heavy)... depending how and what you use them for. It also handles...