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    Some nice shooting guys, those 145 ELDX can shoot well if you get the right combo for your rifle. 3000 fps should be doable with that bullet in 270 win

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    18inch barrel here mooseman. 2850-2900 is pretty good i’d Think?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dicko View Post
    Moa, Interesting feedback. I’ve read some very good results with R26, in the .270 Win similar to SP. got 3 lbs so a bit committed to making it work. More to come .......
    The Youtube vids are under the title of 'Hunt Simple'. There is a series on 270 load development. I would add that he is still working with RL26 and after reading rambo-6mmrem's post, perhaps it is a matter of getting the right primer choice, a bit like Goldilocks selecting porridge
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    Quote Originally Posted by Freezer View Post
    18inch barrel here mooseman. 2850-2900 is pretty good i’d Think?
    My load with 150 gr Noslar Partition and AR2213SC could only get a bit over 2800 fps, changed to Superformance and 145 gr ELDX and over 3000 fps and good accuracy. That's in a standard barrel Tikka.
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    Covered a ELD-X load I tried in a mates 270 with hybrid 100v powder in this thread https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....id-100v-60792/
    Most accurate load I've ever stumbled on! Might be of use to someone?
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    Found my final load I'm happy with, 5 shots @100m. I pulled the outlier getting a bit excited at the ragged hole appearing.
    56.7g Super P
    84.5mm OAL
    145 ELD
    CCI Primer
    Rem Brass
    Velocity ave 3040 fps

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    200m zero and good to go
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dicko View Post
    Moa, Interesting feedback. I’ve read some very good results with R26, in the .270 Win similar to SP. got 3 lbs so a bit committed to making it work. More to come .......
    Be interesting to see how you get on, theoretically it should work? Looked good in quickload when had a play. Other one was thinking of was RL17.

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    @jackson21 and @MOA,
    Now the ranges are open a bit of follow up on a earlier post.
    I headed out to Malabar range on Saturday check sighing on my target rigs for a upcoming shoot and while there sent some RL26 and 145 ELDx combos down range in the .270 win at 100M.

    A ladder of RL26 in 57.5 to 60.5 in 1.0 gn increments, 3 rounds per loading, produced cluster of around 50 mm at 100. Groups within the cluster appeared to tighten with velocity increase. I'm not reading too much into this as i had a magneto speed on the barrel and it tends to loosen and impact POA and probably grouping. Focus was on identifying any pressure limits and velocity as a secondary pressure indicator.
    Average velocities for 57.5, 58.5, 59.5 and 60.5 loads were: 2935, 3023, 3084 and 3124 fps.
    No pressure signs (extractor marks on cases or stiff bolt lift) were observed at any loading. Primers show the flattening you would expect with warm loads but not that you get from excess loads. I will deprime cases later this week to see if pockets are ok / spent primers chefs hatted etc but not expecting to see issues. I reckon the sweet spot for accuracy & velocity is between 59.5 and 60.5 gns and around or just under 3100 fps in a 24" bbl. Rifle is a Remington 700, so no OAL restrictions and about 40 thou / 1mm off the lands.
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    Decided to try the Superformance/145gn ELD-x’s combo in my R93 270, did a 4 shot ladder test today 54-57gn

    First shot didn’t read but got 2998fps at 57gn so that seems to tie up with what others here have got, my barrel is probably a touch shorter than the tikka/sakos. The factory Precision hunter 145gn did 2835fps when I tried a few recently so this looks a step up.
    Will try some groups next time.

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    A late update for the thread.

    I reran the the RL26 and 145 ELDx testing last week to drill down on the accuracy node in my R700 with a 24"tube.
    Got the following speeds.. (NB. Data points from 1 or 2 shots only)

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    58.5 2951
    59.0 2976
    59.5 2992
    60.0 3019
    60.5 3075
    Also ran almost the same loads (59 - 61 gns) with a 140 Nosler BT. Velocities were almost identical for similar charges. If looking for a RL 26 substitute then RL 22 at 58 to 62 grains with the 145 ELDx gave 2923 to 3097 fps with 60 gns and 3017 seeming to be where the sweet spot is. So RL22 could be a reasonable fall back.

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    I load them in norma brass with 59gr Reloder 22 for 2970fps in a 24' Kimber Montana
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    270 is a harmonic divisor number[1]
    270 is the fourth number that is divisible by its average integer divisor[2]
    270 is a practical number, by the second definition
    The sum of the coprime counts for the first 29 integers is 270
    270 is a sparsely totient number, the largest integer with 72 as its totient
    Given 6 elements, there are 270 square permutations[3]
    10! has 270 divisors
    270 is the smallest positive integer that has divisors ending by digits 1, 2, …, 9.

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    Ryan, that makes sense. I use 58 behind the 140 Nosler BT and AB quite a bit. About 2900 fps

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    Just an update on this one I've gone to using Federal Large Rifle Magnum primers with great results. I was previously using CCI benchrest but due to not being able to get any, and now not wanting to pay what they cost started using Fed large rifle primers.

    My groups started opening up and was scratching my head?? So I tried some loads with Fed Mag primers as bought some of those when that's all that was available.

    Groups have gone back to tiny, although I also went to measuring off ogive as noticed there was quite a bit of variation just off OAL which wasn't worried about when shooting well.

    My measurements to ogive with hornady 27 gauge is 68.3mm/2.6935".
    These things are hammers, way over the top for fallow learnt my lesson there a few times, pigs certainly don't like them and roll down the hill like wee barrels once hit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jackson21 View Post
    Just an update on this one I've gone to using Federal Large Rifle Magnum primers with great results. I was previously using CCI benchrest but due to not being able to get any, and now not wanting to pay what they cost started using Fed large rifle primers.

    My groups started opening up and was scratching my head?? So I tried some loads with Fed Mag primers as bought some of those when that's all that was available.

    Groups have gone back to tiny, although I also went to measuring off ogive as noticed there was quite a bit of variation just off OAL which wasn't worried about when shooting well.

    My measurements to ogive with hornady 27 gauge is 68.3mm/2.6935".
    These things are hammers, way over the top for fallow learnt my lesson there a few times, pigs certainly don't like them and roll down the hill like wee barrels once hit.

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