I have a Remington Custom shop Left Hand 270W with an 18 3/4" barrel in a composite stock.
The optics is a Leopold 2X7. It weighs in at a pleasant 6 pounds.
This is my day to day woods rifle and I never leave home without it. It accounts for more crows, hogs, cotton mouths, vermin, quail enemy, and varmint kills than all my other extensive stable of fine rifles.
My morning check list: Leica 8X40s, rifle, 15 rounds, and a Leupold range finder. Lunch optional.
The secret to it's success is the light loads it fires so well. This load was developed only for accuracy at the range with a complete bench loading set up.
(Wilson tools several powders, primers, and light bullets).
Results = Mild report, little recoil, & Extremely accurate.
Benched 1.2” or less @ 200 meters consistently.
The load is:
Powder: 42.0 grains of 4895
Bullet: 110 grain Sierra varmint bullet sectional density = 204 ballistic = .375
Primer: Remington large rifle primer.
It chronographs 2,650fps. in the 18 3/4” barrel. Faster in longer barrels of course.
It is sighted for 150 meters which is about as far as I ever shoot anything.
It is right on at 24 meters, 1.5” high at 100, and only 2” low at 200.
Not too far off from 130 grain factory load trajectory.
The accuracy of this load is better than with my custom 22-250 700bdl varmint rifles (16 pounds +).
Landowners do not get upset at it's report as they do with bean field artillery pieces.
I have killed several whitetails with this at 25 meters or less, and have confidence in this rifle.
The 110 grain Sierra mushrooms well at close range at these low velocities. Here in mid Mississippi my average deer shot is under 20 meters. Every kill was instant and did little meat damage.
This is not a bean field cannon, but it is the perfect woods companion rifle for this old curmudgeon.
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The optics is a Leopold 2X7. It weighs in at a pleasant 6 pounds.
This is my day to day woods rifle and I never leave home without it. It accounts for more crows, hogs, cotton mouths, vermin, quail enemy, and varmint kills than all my other extensive stable of fine rifles.
My morning check list: Leica 8X40s, rifle, 15 rounds, and a Leupold range finder. Lunch optional.
The secret to it's success is the light loads it fires so well. This load was developed only for accuracy at the range with a complete bench loading set up.
(Wilson tools several powders, primers, and light bullets).
Results = Mild report, little recoil, & Extremely accurate.
Benched 1.2” or less @ 200 meters consistently.
The load is:
Powder: 42.0 grains of 4895
Bullet: 110 grain Sierra varmint bullet sectional density = 204 ballistic = .375
Primer: Remington large rifle primer.
It chronographs 2,650fps. in the 18 3/4” barrel. Faster in longer barrels of course.
It is sighted for 150 meters which is about as far as I ever shoot anything.
It is right on at 24 meters, 1.5” high at 100, and only 2” low at 200.
Not too far off from 130 grain factory load trajectory.
The accuracy of this load is better than with my custom 22-250 700bdl varmint rifles (16 pounds +).
Landowners do not get upset at it's report as they do with bean field artillery pieces.
I have killed several whitetails with this at 25 meters or less, and have confidence in this rifle.
The 110 grain Sierra mushrooms well at close range at these low velocities. Here in mid Mississippi my average deer shot is under 20 meters. Every kill was instant and did little meat damage.
This is not a bean field cannon, but it is the perfect woods companion rifle for this old curmudgeon.
[email protected]
