Thread: 270 preferred projectile weight

Originally Posted by Bagheera

Has anyone used copper bullets in 270Win ? @Tahr has reported on them for the WSM.

I tried 130 Barnes TSX and Winchester 140gn Fail Safe. Both killed what they were shot at but I wasn't overly impressed. Preferred the ABs.

I’ve used the 130 grain Barnes ttsx and found the same as everyone else. A bit too hard really. Killed ok but you sort of want better than ok for over $2 a projectile.

I the 1990s I used Winchester Fail Safe bullets in factory ammo. The worst bullet ever. They killed..but I learnt a fair bit about tracking!

145gr eldx and superformance & 2213, or RL22 if you want it to go real quick

Failsafes were a very average pill. Poor expansion, more like a fmj.


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130 gr. Hornady Interlock work best in my .270 BSA Majestic. Have used them for over 30 years. Tried 140gr. but they didn't group well.

I believe the failsafe was designed for big game. As in bears and African plains game and such like. We don’t have anything like that in this country. Probably an excellent bullet for what it was designed for, just no use to us here. I would think if you turned up on safari with a fast expanding bullet like we use here you’d probably get told to sit in the car and not touch anything.

Oh I completely agree. In the 90s the average NZ hunter, myself included, didn't know much about this type of thing. You could really only get cup n core bullets....which of course were just called bullets. We were only just getting use to the new fangled Balistic Tips. Bonding sounded dodgy and monolithic had something to do with Stonehenge!

Originally Posted by No.3

Yeah those Ti actions are quite interesting, don't actually save much weight but are shiny in a 'bling' sort of way if you know what I mean. Been looking around for one for a while and never seen one come up. They don't tend to from what I can see, always have a ready line of people wanting to purchase them.

There's one in the for sale section if your still chasing one
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Really liked the 150 lrab when i shot the 270, dropped them at range. Up close they came apart abit but would always still exit