Thread: The 16" 270

I have been talking for a while now about doing a short 270, more for my own interest than anything else. I picked up a Sauer 100 classic that was on special a week or two back and took it straight to gunworks to get the chop and a suppressor fitted, you should have seen the looks I got when I told them what I wanted done! I wanted to keep overall length shorter than the rifle would be without any suppressor or chop so Robbie said he would build a suppressor for it based on their 41mm diameter 9 inch long model, but add an inch to give an overall length of 10 inches, 5 inches back, and 5 inches forward of the muzzle once it was cut to 16" he also decided to use a stainless blast baffle inside the suppressor to cope with any abuse.
The rifle was originally a 22" barrel so overall length now with the suppressor is still an inch shorter than that.
I got the rifle home yesterday and wasted no time getting some load development rounds ready to go, I based a lot of what I was doing from advice on American forums from guys shooting the 15 inch Thomson Contender pistols in 270win, I went with reloader 17 powder and 110 grain Sierra Pro Hunters, these projectiles are excellent killers in every other caliber I have used them in (7mm08 and 260rem) so I thought I can't go too far wrong if I can get them moving quick enough.
I found it a bit tricky shooting for accuracy at 100 yds with a 6x scope but found a happy spot at 58grains of reloader 17 and have just put it through the chrono and came up with 3060fps, I punched this information into strelok and confirmed I was getting the correct drop at 400 yards so can be confident the velocity is correct.
Happy with how it's turned out and should be a handy little rifle

Specs are

Sauer 100 classic 270 win
Shortened barrel to 16" and threaded
Gunworks 41mm suppressor with stainless internals, 5" forward, 5" back
Talley lightweights
Kahles Helia S 1.5-6x42
110gr Sierra Prohunter, 58grs R17, 3060fps





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