favorite .270 handload

[thomis]

Heading to the gunshop soon. Loading some .270's for the first time. I like to stick with 130 to 140 grain bullets. What is your favorite load for deer?

i'm looking for type of powder, amount of charge, primer brand and bullet choice..

 

[MMCSRET]

I have used a Hornady 130 gr. Spire Point over 52.5 gr. of Winchester 760 and a standard large rifle primer, usually CCI 200 for 30 years. Always on mountain and prairie mule deer, never used it on whitetail deer. I've used it in several 270 rifles, the most accurate was a Model 70 XTR, 1973, with 22" barrel.
Not the fastest moving, but very accurate and easy to shoot, and one of the cheapest bullets on the market today. I have never used a boat tail bullet, never saw the need.

 

[Art Eatman]

Eons ago, I used any old Large Rifle primer and the Remington 130-grain Bronze Point bullet. I guess the main reason for selecting that bullet was that it seemed prettier than the others. Sierra would work just as well. Or Speer. Or Hornady. Or...

Powder? I was lazy. Fill a case with 4831, tap once, scrape off across the case neck and seat the bullet. That was a less-than-max load, but Bambi didn't know it.

My 1999 Speer book says that with 760, use a magnum primer. FWIW.

It says that for a 130-grain bullet, a max load of 4831 is 58.0 grains, which looks like a compressed load. Just under 3,000 ft/sec, 22" barrel.

 

[xX45Xx]

I like to use the Barnes Tipped TSX 130gr over 53.5grs of IMR 4350 using CCI Large Rifle Primers. My Weatherby seems to love this load.

 

[sig220mw]

I used a 130 gr nosler partition with 60 gr of H4831 which is the max load in the hodgdon manual for that bullet and it worked really well. The only difference was that I used a cci 250 mag primer. Of course I started below the max load and worked up. I found that when I started using the mag primers (per the advice of a gun writer in the nosler manual) I started getting smaller groups.

Look for over pressure signs.

I had good luck with the hornady 130 gr bullets also..... went with the nosler partition for the way it held together and retained weight while still expanding.

 

[dakotasin]

140 hornady, cci mag primer, generous dose of h-4831... don't recall powder charge, but doesn't matter anyway - if you seat longer or shorter or have a tighter or looser chamber my load may be beyond your comfort limits re: pressure.

 

[win71]

I've used 130 gr. core lokts, 57.5 grs. IMR4831, and the old Winchester standard/magnum primers for over 30 years on deer, cow elk, antelope, coyotes, and just about everything else. I'm shooting it out of a pre 64 and have never got better than one inch groups at a hundred but hey, it's a hunting rifle........

 

[jim147]

I have one rifle that just loves 45 grains of Varget and 130 grain Corelock.

jim

 

[Geno]

My Sako Finnbear liked 60 grains of H4831, with a Fed 210 benchrest primer and Nosler Ballistic Tip 130s. It netted pretty extreme accuracy.

 

[MNgunhead]

My 270 loads.

I have a Rem 700 sps stainless that likes two loads. The first is 130 gr. Barnes triple shock over 55.0 grains of IMR 4350. The other is a 140 grain Nosler accubond over 52.5 grains of IMR 4350. The BTSX shoots 3/4" groups all day long and the Nosler AB is a little better. I have not killed anything with the nosler's, but I killed two good size deer with the triple shock and it was impressive. 153 yards on the range finder (both deer) and they never took a step after the shot. They went down in their tracks. No tracking, got to love that.