Thread: 270 150 gr?

Any one reload 150 s ? . Have done some reading and nosler partition ? projectiles keep coming up . I want them for animals out to 300 . Any one add anything ?

Lrabs or vld's?

Originally Posted by Gibo

Lrabs or vld's?

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Speer grand slams.

Originally Posted by Munsey

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Nosler Long Range Accubonds and Berger VLDs. Both got good BC. I dont load them but there are threads on here with data etc.

My thoughts on this are that I'd stick with 130's or 140's if your only wanting to shoot to 300m Munsey.
The 150's better BC isn't really needed at short to medium range.
If you want to try some, I have LRAB's and Bergers at hand and will gladly load you some to try, but the right choice of lighter bullet will do anything a 150 will do out to 300m, with less drop and less recoil.
(e.g.
A Barnes or an Accubond will give you great penetration with a very high chance of an exit wound, whereas a ballistic tip will likely impart all it's energy into the animal with less chance of an exit.)
I'm sure others will say different, but I've been down this route in my .270 and .270WSM and it's only at extended range that I've seen any real advantage to using 150's.

I use the 150gn SSTs.
Much cheaper than the VLDs or LRABs.

Im looking at 150gr Hornady inter bond. Same BC as SST (0.525) and holds itself together better at longer ranges.

Should add I also have some 150SST's as well if you wanted to try these also.

Thanks all for your help

The 150gn SST and 150gn Berger kills everything dead, no fuss. The 110 Barnes TTSX is outstanding out to 300yds if you want to keep recoil down and are not shooting extended ranges, and will punch through irrespective of angles on any size animal in NZ . Will not be hard to get 3300fps out of a 22" barrel,(3400 out of a 24") run the ballistics on it.

What are you using at the mo Muns?

130 Sierra pro hunter . They shoot well enough . So on the advice from Matt I'll stick with them