ExAgoradzo
Member
This is not a 'which is better' post!
I read some time ago (I think in Chuck Hawkes) that you ought to plan for your rifles. A 270 you could load one weight and a 30-06 another load and keep them the same so that you're always shooting consistently from that rifle. In other words, you're not shooting a 140 grain 270 sometimes sometimes different, then a 140 grain 30-06 then sometimes a 180 grain 30-06.
I'm almost out of 270 rounds and I have a bunch of speer 130 gr to load up with. I'd like to use the 270 so that my youngest son can move up to the 270 next year and I'd like to use the 270 myself as a middle between the 223 (coyote) and the 30-06 (deer, elk? ) possibly using it (the 270) for both coyote and deer.
So, I wanted to buy the Barnes Vortex 130 or 140 but kinda feel I ought to use what I got first.
BTW: I'm brand new at reloading!!!
Questions:
Will moving from the Speer I got for free to the Barnes later mess up the plan on making the gun 'a one weight' shooter?
Is this whole plan silly?
Is that 130 grain going to be enough for the deer when my son shoots at his first?
What 130 or 140 grain 270 would you buy?
What 180 grain 30-06 would you buy?
Thanks,
ExAgoradzo
I read some time ago (I think in Chuck Hawkes) that you ought to plan for your rifles. A 270 you could load one weight and a 30-06 another load and keep them the same so that you're always shooting consistently from that rifle. In other words, you're not shooting a 140 grain 270 sometimes sometimes different, then a 140 grain 30-06 then sometimes a 180 grain 30-06.
I'm almost out of 270 rounds and I have a bunch of speer 130 gr to load up with. I'd like to use the 270 so that my youngest son can move up to the 270 next year and I'd like to use the 270 myself as a middle between the 223 (coyote) and the 30-06 (deer, elk? ) possibly using it (the 270) for both coyote and deer.
So, I wanted to buy the Barnes Vortex 130 or 140 but kinda feel I ought to use what I got first.
BTW: I'm brand new at reloading!!!
Questions:
Will moving from the Speer I got for free to the Barnes later mess up the plan on making the gun 'a one weight' shooter?
Is this whole plan silly?
Is that 130 grain going to be enough for the deer when my son shoots at his first?
What 130 or 140 grain 270 would you buy?
What 180 grain 30-06 would you buy?
Thanks,
ExAgoradzo