.270 Squirrel load

[Fumbler]

hehehehe...WhiteKnight's dog has to be much more than 105 lbs, that is one lean hunk of muscle. It could probably tow more than my little pickup truck.
You could ride her like a horse.

I'm no expert, but two bullets, one light and one heavy, will have the same trajectory under a vacuum if they had the same initial velocity.
In the real world I believe the heavier bullet would actually have a better trajectory because of the higher sectional density.
Gravity pulls everything down at the same rate. Some cartridges shoot flatter simply because they go faster. They get farther down range so a faster bullet has covered more ground in the same amount of time as a slower bullet. This leads to less drop at any given distance.

 

[TABING]

I'd use cast bullets at 1000fps or so. I've shot lots of rabbits with my 30-06 with 190 grain bullets at 800-1000 fps, good accuracy for headshots.

 

[cottontoptexan]

Reduced Loads in 270

White Knight,
I know it is something you would like to do with the reduced loads. My opinion is that this is not a safe practice in this cartridge. I know some do it but many guns have been destroyed and quite a few injuries from these so called reduced loads.
Been reloading the 270 Winchester for almost 20 years. Used to load up 90 grain bullets at over 3000 fps and hunt rabbits at night on those Texas oat patches. Never had one run off but never did find much of the rabbit after plugging one either. Hope i do not upset you but Jack O'Conner Mr. 270 himself had written many articles on reduced loads. I read most of them and will take his word for it. He was one of the gun experts in my opinion along with P.O. Ackley. Just be careful with this for it is a strange conditon in which the bullet starts to move into the rifling and then a second spike of pressure from the powder slams into the projectile and burtst the barrel. It is almost like a double pressure curve some of the experts say . Hope you find another alternative like Sub Sonic 22 long rifles which are quiet .

 

[ruger270man]

just shoot 130 gr PSP's, hit em in the head.

 

[Bwana John]

Why does hunting squirrels make people do such strange things? The .25acp rifle was silly, reduced loads in a .270 can be dangerous.
(PS- .22 .22bb,.22cb,22s,.22l,.22lr,.22wrf,.22mag,.22hv,.22target...)

 

[Fumbler]

He's not looking for reduced loads just for squirrel hunting.
He's looking for reduced loads just to do it.
He's got plenty of other guns he can shoot squirrels with.

 

[TABING]

As mentioned in my earlier post, I use reduced loads with cast bullets in my 30-06, also in 7mm mauser, 243 win. and 223 Win. all my loads were constructed using data from the Lyman cast bullet book which specializes in these. I've never had any problems with excessive pressures and I guess I assume that the good folks at Lyman know what they are doing.