270 Success on big game.

[CHGray]

Limpopo, South Africa. All with the guides .270.

 

[BAKPAKR]

6.8 SPC with a 95 gr Barnes TTSX at about 80 yards. Dropped in its tracks. If I recall correctly, the muzzle velocity from my 14.5” barrel is about 2600 fps.



270 Winchester with a 130 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip at less than 50 yards. Dropped in its tracks. Muzzle velocity was a little under 3000 fps (Ti rifle seems to show pressure early).

 

[glennjones]

I don't have any pictures in digital format but for the first 20 years I hunted it was exclusively with a Browning Abolt II stalker with the boss on it in 270 win. I have killed a train car full of deer with that gun shooting Hornady light Magnum 140 btsp. Never chronoed it. Never dialed. Just shot deer and a few other random critters with as it was the only caliber I had. I still have the gun and some of the ammo but haven't shot it in 10 years. Only complaint I have is this case a tinnitus in both ears.

 

[Sixpack]

Browning BAR 270 with peep sight

 

[Hondo64d]

My first “serious” rifle when I was a kid was a tang safety Ruger M77 with a steel tube Weaver K6 on it. To this day, that rifle gave me more DRT kills than any I have used since. I still remember the load: 56gr IMR4350 pushing the 130gr Sierra Gameking. I don’t recall a single whitetail moving out of its tracks with that load. Years later, I had my 1st custom put together and had that chambered in .270 as well. It was a 700 action with a Hart barrel in a Brown Precision stock. It grouped better than the M77 and killed just as well. My favorite load for that rifle was the 140gr Hornady Interlock pushed to 3076fps by 59gr H4831. It killed just like the 130gr Gameking did; instantly. Also used some of the 1st generation 150gr Nosler Ballistic tips in that rifle and the way stuff dropped when hit with that bullet was impressive to this day.

When I decided to have a rifle put together for my teenage son, naturally, it was going to be a .270. It was also on a 700 action, with a Brux barrel and a Vangard patterned B&C stock with the aluminum bedding block. He killed more deer and pigs with that rifle than the plague.

After all the overwhelmingly great results with the .270, there is no good explanation as to why I don’t currently own one, and my son doesn’t really use his anymore. I suppose we have gotten caught in the numbers the really high BC bullets provide, and they do work well, but if our 6.5 Creedmoors kill any quicker than our .270s did, I’ve been unable to see it.

I keep threatening to build another…

John

 

[Pescetism]

Hornady light Magnum 140 btsp

That was my dad's preferred 270 ammo and I've read from multiple others that it shot well in most 270s. The Superformance version wasn't as accurate in our experience.

Wish I had pictures but most of the animals he took were pre-cell phone and he never carried a camera.

 

[Elkhuntinfool78]

My .270 is probably my favorite gun I own. The new stuff is great but the elk don't go down any faster. Mostly running 130 accubonds. Here's the last couple of elk I took with it

 

[cal30_sniper]

I took my first Muley with a 1951 Husqvarna 640 in .270 Win. It loves the Underwood Accubond load.

 

[glennjones]

The Superformance version wasn't as accurate in our experience.

Exact same experience

 

[wyosam]

The Superformance version wasn't as accurate in our experience.

My experience with super performance factory ammo, and hand loads with that powder. Hot garbage.


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[Slickhill]

I grew up around the 270, it was a “big” rifle in my family. In the early 70’s my grandfather had taken his sons to a going out of business sale at a sporting goods store with the express purpose of buying Remington 700 30/06s for his boys. When they got there one 30/06 was all that was left so the oldest son got it and the younger boys became 270 shooters. These were the men I grew up hunting with and thankfully still get to hunt with some of them. They just smiled and chuckled when I would read Craig Boddington articles about 7RMs being the absolute minimum elk cartridge and ask them about it, turned out they’d probably killed more elk with a 270 than Craig had with all the cartridges he’d ever used, Boddington later changed his tune.

When I got married I gifted my wife a custom FN sporter actioned Mauser I’d barreled to 270 and stocked from a blank in Claro walnut. She used it to good effect on AK black bears and Kodiak Blacktails.

A good friend gifted me a 7RM for a wedding present. Its barrel was completely roached and it wouldn’t shoot better than about 5” for 3 shots. Being a poor gunsmith I didn’t have the funds for a barrel blank to do the sensible thing and rebarrel to 7RM. But I swapped a set of loading dies for an unturned .277 blank, matched the factory contour on my lathe, borrowed a reamer, bought a set of used dies from EBay, and ended up with a 270Wby. Sensible, no, but it shoots 130s great at blistering speeds that don’t require dialing out to 400 or a shade over and I’ve killed a stack of elk and deer with it. I only use one load, 7828 under a 130 from Nosler or Swift be it a Partition, ETip, or Scirocco.

So a 270 is far from the only thing I use but I certainly don’t have any qualms with picking one out of the closet and making meat with it.

 

[KenLee]

I don't have any pictures in digital format but for the first 20 years I hunted it was exclusively with a Browning Abolt II stalker with the boss on it in 270 win. I have killed a train car full of deer with that gun shooting Hornady light Magnum 140 btsp. Never chronoed it. Never dialed. Just shot deer and a few other random critters with as it was the only caliber I had. I still have the gun and some of the ammo but haven't shot it in 10 years. Only complaint I have is this case a tinnitus in both ears.

Boss = torture

 

[cornstalker]

@Slickhill
That is a top-notch picture of the whitetail. Well done setting that up!

Congrats on all of the fine animals.

 

[Pilsner]

Don't have any pictures handy but have killed a pile of deer with a 270 win and 130 grain sierra soft points

Same

 

[wowzers]

I shoot a couple .270’s and they do everything I could want.

 

[Preston]

Ive had a 270 for six years and finally decided to hunt with it last year. I shot a pronghorn and a whitetail with Federal Fusion 130 and they were really effective. Ive used 7 mag and 30/06 mostly but really like the feel of the Remington 700 cdl 270. Ive only shot out to 300 yards but it groups good and I plan on using it for elk, deer, and pronghorn this year.

 

[gerry35]

Time for another caliber success thread. Lets see those 270 kills whether it's the 270 Win, 270 WSM, or 6.8 Western. If you can remember post load, impact velocity and distance.

Thanks for starting this thread! I would have if you didn't.

 

[gerry35]

My first big game animal with the 6.8 Western was this moose last fall. We called him in to under 30 yards. I used the 170 gr Ballistic Tip which worked but didn't get a lot of penetration hitting heavy bone at such close range

 

[gerry35]

My first mule deer buck, we moved last spring to a good area to hunt them. Also taken with the 6.8 Western and the 170 gr Ballistic Tip but at 190 yards. Worked perfectly and the deer only went about 20 yards. Our dog Buddy spotted him in the clear cut we were watching which was super cool. I noticed that he was staring in a spot I couldn't quite see and sure enough there was the buck. He's been enjoying the bones all winter long.

 

[gerry35]

Trio of black bears all taken with the 270 Win and 160 gr Nosler partitions. My all time favorite bear load. First one at 70 yards, second at 100 yards (yes he dropped just like that!) and third at 200 yards.