Thread: I need help! 270 barrel chop, cant make a decision

Originally Posted by TLB

Scott Traill who is a very well respected gunsmith used to have a few videos of shooting with 10" and 12" 308s he made including shooting deer out to nearly 500 yards with them.

There are 168gr eld factory loads available which are probably more powerful than my reloads so do equally as far. 178gr eld factory loads, 165gr SST loads and 150gr superformance loads all factory that will all most likely do 400 yards on deer out of a 16" 308 barrel. So yup plenty of factory .308 loads. Don't know of a factory 7.62x39 load that I would even consider to shoot a deer with over 200 yards with a 16" barrel in a 7.62x39.
You stated no real world advantage in bush hunting ranges out to 150 metres. I know what I would rather have in my hands out of a .308 and a 7.62x39 on a big roaring red, Sika, Rusa, Wapiti or a Sambar and I can tell you that not many if any hunters would choose the 7.62x39. I can run reduced 130gr loads in the .308 that don't recoil at all and still eat the 7.62x39.

However the discussion was about .270s and the factory eldx load and superformance load will do more than fine out of a 19" barrel with not a significant amount more blast or recoil than a 22"

ahh yes but scott was the first to admit it took a hell of a lot of clicks to do any range and the energy was getting low indeed....