Favorite .270 Winchester Bullet Type/Weight

[ktm450]

Hello All,
I am an experienced reloader and just acquired my first .270 Win after many years of looking for the right one. It has a 24” barrel 1:10 twist. I am interested in your thoughts for your favorite traditional bullet type/weight. I will be using this on western big game (Bear, antelope, deer, maybe elk). Thanks in advance.

 

[FLS]

Barnes 130 TTSX
Nosler 130 Ballistic Tip or Accubond
Hornady 145 ELDX
I would shoot whichever your rifle prefers.

 

[NE Herd Bull]

Sierra Game King 140gr SBT
Simple bullet
Simple to develop loads
Simply kills deer size game

 

[Zdub02]

I've killed a pile of deer with a 130 gr sierra game king SBT. FWIW

 

[Overdrive]

My 270 always liked the Federal Premium 150gr Partitions for factory ammo, I handload 140 accubonds now and the rifle likes those as well.

 

[N2TRKYS]

I have loads for 130 Partition/AB, 140 Partition/AB, and 150 grain Partitions. I’m getting 3000 fps with the 150 grain Partitions out of a 22” barrel.

My favorite is the 140 grain ABs. All of them are good, though.

 

[ktm450]

130’s or 140’s out to 400 yards or
so fine for elk In your experience? I have killed a bunch of elk, but with 200+ grain out of various .30 cal.’s.

 

[jzeblaz]

I've run 130 E-Tips, TTSXs and NBTs in the past and currently running 129 LRX. All have been lights out. Great cartridge.

 

[Lytro]

130 gr Partitions loaded over RL19.

 

[Axlrod]

130’s or 140’s out to 400 yards or
so fine for elk In your experience? I have killed a bunch of elk, but with 200+ grain out of various .30 cal.’s.

Growing up most everyone in our family used a 270 for elk and everything else. Pick a 130/140 that shoots where you want it, and it will work past 400. Used to run the 110 Barnes TTX for my son when he started 12 years ago. He killed his first 5 elk with it, including a 6 point bull at 556 yards

 

[ozyclint]

I have 3 handloads I use-

110gr Sierra ProHunter at 2550fps. this is a reduced load for my son. It's the same as a 6.8SPC factory round.

130gr Hornady Interlock. this is my go to round for most of my hunting. been an excellent performer for me.

150gr Speer Grand Slam. In case I hunt something in the scrub bull/camel/buffalo class. Or even Sambar deer

 

[nobody]

Hornady 145 ELDX
140 SST

Push em fast and put it in the front half. My 3 brothers all have 270's and it's a great round, and they all shoot those two bullets (2x Tikka T3x and 1X Weatherby Vanguard with a 26" Barrel). If I wasn't already up to my eyeballs in the 6.5 Creedmoor, I'd own one. I probably will one day. If Hornady ever comes out with like a 160 Grain ELDM and Tikka starts twisting their barrels faster, I'd be hard pressed to pass one up.

 

[ktm450]

I appreciate all the feedback. I love tinkering with new stuff and understand that it does not make much difference in the real world. Now that a successful 2022 season is over, it is time to obsess about minutiae related to ballistics!

 

[Bomberodevil]

I’m kind of in the same boat, trying to develop a new hunting load for a family Remington 721 in .270 Win, made in 1952. It shoots 130 grain bullets in .400“ groups, so it’s a shooter. I look often at what Nathan Foster at Ballistic Studies has to say, and he kind of leans towards heavier for cartridge in the 270 Win, due to somewhat frangible loads at lighter weights. I’m going to load some 145 ELD-X and see what they look like.

.270 Winchester

 

[Gila]

If you can get some Hornady interbonds...you will really like those bullets. The penetration is excellent and they expand perfectly. 130 gr really fly well.

 

[JFK]

110gr TTSX, 117gr hammer hunters and 129gr LRX are what I shoot. They all shoot great, with the hammers being the most accurate. The lighter weight monos can be pushed really fast (3350ish fps) and they hit harder than you’d think. The 110’s are impossible find now days so I pretty much just shoot the 117 hammers and the 129 Barnes. If going with lead I’d grab some accubonds, interbonds, sciroccos or partitions in 130 grain.

 

[SouthPaw]

Hello All,
I am an experienced reloader and just acquired my first .270 Win after many years of looking for the right one. It has a 24” barrel 1:10 twist. I am interested in your thoughts for your favorite traditional bullet type/weight. I will be using this on western big game (Bear, antelope, deer, maybe elk). Thanks in advance.

I shot .270 for many years. I'm also a hand loader and shot/killed with many of the popular bullet options. I found the best bullet for the .270win 1:10 as far as ballistics and killing is the Berger 140 classic hunter. 145 ELDX a close 2nd choice.

 

[Dark timber]

140gr Accubonds before I had RL26, now 150gr ABs are my favorite

 

[V2Pnutrition]

Lots of great recommendations here! With you being an experienced reloader, I’m sure you’ll heed the advice of “shoot what the gun seems to like best.”

I couldn’t get my .270 to like 140 or 150 gr bullets for the life of me. Because of that, I’ve always stuck with 130 gr.

Factory Barnes (vor-tx) and Hornady (American Whitetail) have been great and very flat shooting.

I recently reloaded some Berger Classic Hunters in 130 gr as well. They’ve been excellent for precision on the range and taken a few bucks + elk.

 

[KU_Geo]

Personal favorite is 150gr nosler partitions. They do everything I need for a western big game rifle out to 550yards or so. Has accounted for numerous deer, elk, Mtn goat, and antelope. But honestly dang near any bullet would work. I’ve used 130, 140 &150 accubonds, 140 Hornady BTSP, and 130 & 150 Hornady SP interlocks…all worked just fine as well. But I just keep coming back to the 150gr partition as a do all killer in all conditions and shot opportunities.