Thread: 270 Factory ammo suggestions

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

For meat size pigs and deer you cannot go past the 130 grn Winchester Powerpoint. Shoot behind the front leg or neck. I have shot more than 500 pigs with these before I started reloading and they are the best general purpose factory load IMO. Dont get any of the tipped bullets

i smacked my largest antlered sambar stag with a few factory 130gr super x's in .270, it was close quaters , i was fallow hunting the lead up to the rut when i'd glassed it from 600m away, i stalked toward it an met it close in the timber on the side of the hill, knowing i had a high velocity and fairly soft projectile up it, at less than 30m i shot 'behind the shoulder' a tad, it dropped n thrashed around and i keept shootin , 3 from a few angles aiming for the heart area and saving one for when the adrenaline chilled out for justin.

pulled a few out but 100% energy dump.

good dumpers on fallow own here at all ranges, so a plus 4 by the sounds on a plain jane super x or corelokt in 130gr

before i go, i also loaded 130gr corlokts at around 2850 fps and they actually worked 'better' in terms of penetration on sambar from 30-350 meters, not going so fast, not shredding so much weight