Thread: Tikka?

Originally Posted by Pengy

With all this talk of gay rifles, I am surprised no one has suggested getting a Blouser

Wanna come camping with me?
Make sure you take the price tag of your new blouser before we come back😆

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One advantage of being a 270 owner and the only one I can think of is "You will quickly build up your tracking and blood trailing skills"

If you keep it for a year and you get out a lot you will have achieved Blackfella Tracka status which take others a life time to achieve. So its not all bad I guess

A great hunter I shot with brought one because he had thousands of NZFS CAC 130 gr rounds that he had received at two rounds per deer tail.

My God I could track by the time that little episode was over I can tell you. Tracking deer through pepperwood is hard with its red spotted leaves, but through red tussock its a damn sight harder.

A rather inexperienced shooter with a 270 took up a position next to me, but back a bit when I was trying to clean up a mob of deer on the tussock one day. Fuck when he fired the blast rolled me over and I have got a big fat locust that sings away in my eardrum 24 hours of the day now.

I call her Tikka.

Originally Posted by Scribe

One advantage of being a 270 owner and the only one I can think of is "You will quickly build up your tracking and blood trailing skills"

If you keep it for a year and you get out a lot you will have achieved Blackfella Tracka status which take others a life time to achieve. So its not all bad I guess

A great hunter I shot with brought one because he had thousands of NZFS CAC 130 gr rounds that he had received at two rounds per deer tail.

My God I could track by the time that little episode was over I can tell you. Tracking deer through pepperwood is hard with its red spotted leaves, but through red tussock its a damn sight harder.

A rather inexperienced shooter with a 270 took up a position next to me, but back a bit when I was trying to clean up a mob of deer on the tussock one day. Fuck when he fired the blast rolled me over and I have got a big fat locust that sings away in my eardrum 24 hours of the day now.

I call her Tikka.

Hell of a spiel for a .22 shooter...you should never have entered the "personal space" of a .270 shooter.

Originally Posted by Spook

Hell of a spiel for a .22 shooter...you should never have entered the "personal space" of a .270 shooter.

What spook said ! Mines a T3 Lite

Originally Posted by Scribe

One advantage of being a 270 owner and the only one I can think of is "You will quickly build up your tracking and blood trailing skills"







If you keep it for a year and you get out a lot you will have achieved Blackfella Tracka status which take others a life time to achieve. So its not all bad I guess







A great hunter I shot with brought one because he had thousands of NZFS CAC 130 gr rounds that he had received at two rounds per deer tail.







My God I could track by the time that little episode was over I can tell you. Tracking deer through pepperwood is hard with its red spotted leaves, but through red tussock its a damn sight harder.







A rather inexperienced shooter with a 270 took up a position next to me, but back a bit when I was trying to clean up a mob of deer on the tussock one day. Fuck when he fired the blast rolled me over and I have got a big fat locust that sings away in my eardrum 24 hours of the day now.







I call her Tikka.

All I will say to that is using a tool for something it was never meant (as a close range bush rifle) with poorly constructed bullets is never going to end well.


Good thing the tool was never blamed! 😁

Originally Posted by Spudattack

All I will say to that is using a tool for something it was never meant (as a close range bush rifle) with poorly constructed bullets is never going to end well.


Good thing the tool was never blamed! 

Nah all of this shooting was at a fair range over open tussock.

This ammunition was especially made for Forest Service for animal Control and the brass was head stamped NZFS. They are still around these shells, mostly in collections where they belong.

You are right you shouldn't blame the tool and you have to blame the hunter in the end. But after a few days of mayhem he had lost his confidence in his weapon and once that happens you might as well throw stones at them.

Originally Posted by Scribe

This ammunition was especially made for Forest Service for animal Control and the brass was head stamped NZFS. They are still around these shells, mostly in collections where they belong.

When I read that I read made by the cheapest tender.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

When I read that I read made by the cheapest tender.

Exactly what I was thinking, made with the cheapest bullets they could get their hands on!

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

When I read that I read made by the cheapest tender.

This doesn't quite answer the conundrum that has puzzled me for years. Why wasn't the 270 accepted in general by the culling fraternity. As you would go a long way to find a profession that took more pride in the tools of the trade and using the best available at the time.

We 222 users were happy to buy a sako vixen through the NZFS and thrived on three 222 rounds per kill. Mostly we were supplied with sako or Hertinberg Ammo. Very good stuff it was too but I think we mostly preferred the Hertinberg.

The only other Ammo supplied to shooters was 270, 130 gr, CAC. Most every shooter that took 2 270 round per kill then traded these packets of bullets for powder and projectiles and reloaded for the Sako Forester 243's they were all using.

These shooters could just as easily traded for Powder and better 270 projectiles (if that was the problem) and reloaded for the 270 if they found the calibre acceptable.

Originally Posted by Scribe

This doesn't quite answer the conundrum that has puzzled me for years. Why wasn't the 270 accepted in general by the culling fraternity. As you would go a long way to find a profession that took more pride in the tools of the trade and using the best available at the time.

We 222 users were happy to buy a sako vixen through the NZFS and thrived on three 222 rounds per kill. Mostly we were supplied with sako or Hertinberg Ammo. Very good stuff it was too but I think we mostly preferred the Hertinberg.

The only other Ammo supplied to shooters was 270, 130 gr, CAC. Most every shooter that took 2 270 round per kill then traded these packets of bullets for powder and projectiles and reloaded for the Sako Forester 243's they were all using.

These shooters could just as easily traded for Powder and better 270 projectiles (if that was the problem) and reloaded for the 270 if they found the calibre acceptable.

I think you have probably answerrd your own question with your earlier post!

Initial failures and wounding due to poor quality supplied ammo led to loss of confidence in the calibre which was then passed down from mentor to apprentice, "don't use the .270, it wounds game, just trust me!" and so the opinion was spread without a lot ever trying it.
After your mates initial failures was he keen to try loading for it? I doubt it as he had already lost faith in it due probably to poor ammunition rather than the actual calibre.

It has suffered a similar stigma that all weatherby chamberings suffered in Africa, weatherby is still uttered as a swear word even though most who have this opinion have never even seen a weatherby chambering!
When they were launched back in the 60s with their high mv, premium bonded and mono bullets were not available, this let to a lot of failures and bullet blow ups.
Now we have much better bullets that perform well at high velocities, but the stigma has stuck.
Sounds familiar doesn't it?

The .270 is very popular in Africa, probably due to being marketed as a long range chambering from the start and was used as such, lower impact velocities meant the bullets could handle it and far fewer blow ups.

Originally Posted by Scribe

This doesn't quite answer the conundrum that has puzzled me for years. Why wasn't the 270 accepted in general by the culling fraternity. As you would go a long way to find a profession that took more pride in the tools of the trade and using the best available at the time.

We 222 users were happy to buy a sako vixen through the NZFS and thrived on three 222 rounds per kill. Mostly we were supplied with sako or Hertinberg Ammo. Very good stuff it was too but I think we mostly preferred the Hertinberg.

The only other Ammo supplied to shooters was 270, 130 gr, CAC. Most every shooter that took 2 270 round per kill then traded these packets of bullets for powder and projectiles and reloaded for the Sako Forester 243's they were all using.

These shooters could just as easily traded for Powder and better 270 projectiles (if that was the problem) and reloaded for the 270 if they found the calibre acceptable.

I think the fact that the 222 is so much more pleasant to shot than the 270 (if you are firing a lot of rounds) may have something to do with it too. I don't imagine too many cullers or meat hunters would like to admit they were recoil shy.
Have heard good things about the Hertinberg projectiles but never come across them.