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    Default Re: .270 130gr or 150gr or both - Advice please!

    @ Karoobush - I just looked at the BC of 140gr Accubonds it is 0.496...which means it will fly the same as most faster 130gr loads sound like a great option.

    @ Willie Barnard - Did you ever feel "undergunned" shooting at a Wildebeest with a 130gr PMP bullet from your .270? Ever had any drama with a wounded bees as a result?

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    Hickers, yes I did feel undergunned shooting at a wildebeest with a .270. Both bullet weights. It was under circumstances where a bigger calibre rifle was not availble. No drama yet, but nowadays I rather use .458 or .375 - FEELS much better.
    I dont know how "overgunned" feels - never had that feeling. I know "feel" is not a scientific word. But I do think a .270 is a bit marginal for wildebeest.

    Williebees

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    Default Re: .270 130gr or 150gr or both - Advice please!

    A corebonded bullet from any maker and the 130gr has just never failedMy mates next to me shoot a 150gr and same story - bonded bullet and entry exit holes are the result right out to 200+ behind shoulder on any Kudu. SO FAR !

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    Default Re: .270 130gr or 150gr or both - Advice please!

    Since I started this thread, and after considering all the advice, I decided to use the 140gr Nosler Accubond....I am loving this relaoding thing! The stats suggest the 140gr in the 270 to be a winner....better BC than most 130gr I have seen...should fly as, or almost as flat, as a 130gr and still have more energey than a 130gr or a 150gr when arriving at the receiving end...

    Sound like the perfect medicine for those spear horned Kalahari antelope.....

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    Default Re: .270 130gr or 150gr or both - Advice please!

    I seem to have found a bullet in 150gr that my fussy 270 will shoot. I am getting a reasonable group at 100m with the 150gr Nosler Partition and I am excited to try it on big game as soon as possible. Having said that, I am still a 270 130gr man! They go together like braaivleis rugby and beer!

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    Default Re: .270 130gr or 150gr or both - Advice please!

    Dave,

    If I had a 243 and a 270 I would also not bother with 130 grainers in the 270. My 270 has always grouped well with either 150 or 130grains factory ammo. I thought the 140gr is a compromise load but in the Nosler range (high BC) it is superior in terms of energy all the way through and being a bonded core I reckon it will be deadly on springbok up to gemsbok/kudu, which is what I target with my 270.

    The 150grain bullet is a tough slower which will reduce meat damage of course. I like the idea of shooting one bullet in a rifle..cheaper to develop, and manage, easier to know trajectory etc etc...

    Well at lest this is my thinking now but I am sure wI will come up with a good reason in time to develop 110 grain, 130 grain and 150 grain loads...maybe even a 165 grain load!! Who knows....

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    Default Re: .270 130gr or 150gr or both - Advice please!

    Hickers - you are quite right! You will want to play one day but it is better to use one load and that is that! My 270 loves 130gr Sierra prohunters and if I am not using my 243 then the 270 is a do it all combination. Sometimes my son needs something bigger than his 222 and then he takes the 243 and I take the 270 and we both do well. Your 140gr idea is a good one - please let me know how it works in the field and on the range.
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    Default Re: .270 130gr or 150gr or both - Advice please!

    Thanks Dave but it was not really my idea (look higher up in the thread). Umswati boy and Karoobush suggested it...I was so stuck on the 130gr and 150gr until I investigated a bit closer.

    Will let you know how it went with the final (hopefully) load testing...and then of course the true test in the Karoo in June.

    How do those Pro hunters perform? I have seen mixed reviews on US forums....do they manage to stay in more or less one piece?

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    Default Re: .270 130gr or 150gr or both - Advice please!

    Hickers
    The prohunters really are very good at killing. They do not always stay together but the always kill like lightning if you do your job and place the bullet correctly. I load mine with 52,5gr 365 - a moderate load so I seldom get through and throughs but the animals die very fast. I believe very strongly in Sierra. I seldom recover a bullet. In my 243 they go through more often than not but in my 270 I get pieces coming out with mush that was once lungs. They are truly devastating - they hold together long enough to enter the body cavity and then they shred the lungs. My fav is actually the 135gr Matchking - I have shot it clean through 3 Kudus and they went no more than 10 paces and died. If I shoot a premium bullet then I choose Rhino - the Noslers were given to me and I look forward to trying them. When I got hom from work today I was given a present of 200 Hornady 140gr interlocks - time to play again.
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    Default Re: .270 130gr or 150gr or both - Advice please!

    First prize is to use one bullet for bush and plains, small game to larger game. There is no need to mess around with different loads for different scenarios with a 270. It is expensive to switch back and forth all the time and you never learn what the trajectory wind drift and time of flight of the bullet is.

    The exception would be if you like to fiddle around with loads anyway. In that case, use one rifle to fiddle and play around with and use one rifle for hunting.

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