Thread: Reloading conundrum - time constraint.

Hi all thanks for the useful input.
I've come up with a plan and am comfortable I'll either find a load that'll be serviceable during what will effectively be just sighting in and getting familiar to rifle, or I'll take the .270. I would like to take the rifle for the reasons @grandpamac alluded to. I haven't taken any leave all year and being working too much and my partner has organised a hunt for us so it'll be a bit of a special occasion.
I even brought the rifle with plenty of time to take it on a few hunts and do load development - I thought...

Also turned out the mag length was dead on 3.000" so I went with the Hornady max OAL of 2.955 which gives the round a comfortable clearance in the mag. Loaded up a test cartridge (no primer/powder) with sharpie on the projectile and no sign of the lands at this length so they are somewhere further out. How much further matters to me not - I can go deeper in load development but I can't go much longer and I'm not interested in single feeding. One day I might get interested enough to find out what the exact jump is but as it's a new rifle I'll give it a 100 or so roads before getting excited.

This is not for the calibre - .270 vs 6.5PRC still go bang and perforate things. I have them as it's interesting not because one replaces the other. Hell I'd have to get rid of half my gear if I was clearing out redundancy... I could also take a 7mm Rem Mag, or a .308, or a .243, or a .303, or a .375H&H but where would the fun be in that when the new sparkly one can come along.