Question for LARK

[singleshot]

Hey Lark,

What's your favorite handload for a 270? I'm going to be working up a load for 150 grain partitions and thought who better to consult than old 270 himself.

Hope your surgery went well.

[.270]

in my favorite .270 i shoot 140 grain hornady interlock boat tail soft points with h4350 powder. i won't say how much because it is an overload and will jam any rifle with a short throat. probably blow out the primers too. but in my old long throated model 70 it works well. in my first back up .270, also a pre 64 model 70, i shoot 130 grain hornady interbonds with the same load of powder. i never liked 150 gr bullets very well because they are sorta slow, and i like hotrods. the partitions will work well, you just can't shoot em real fast. h4350 and h4831sc are both good powders in a .270. there are probably some that are even better now, but i settled on my load years ago and have never changed. i use magnum rifle primers. i even have one bullet seating die that never gets changed and is just for my 140 gr load. i've never had an interlock come apart and seldom do they shoot through an animal, leaving all the shock inside. usually find the bullet in a big flat wad under the skin on the offside. the interbonds tend to shoot through most deer. i have several other .270's that i shoot whatever 130 gr factory loads are the cheapest. winchester silvertips or remington core-lokts usually. Lark.

[singleshot]

Thanks Lark,

The rifle I'm loading for is a Winchester model 54, 26 inch barrel. It was given to me by my father in law and was special ordered from the factory in what I believe was called the civilian target model. It had a plug in the stock where the factory peep sight overlapped the the rear of the action. It came from the factory with a 2.5 power weaver scope, 1/2 or 5/8 inch tube with just a single dot for a reticle. It was in really good shape so I sent it off and had it re-blued and then had my father stock it in AAA walnut, fiddleback, not stump figure.

My wife drew an early bull tag this year and I have a box of 150 grain partitions so I plan to load for them. I finally had to Google 270 brass to find some and was able to get a 100 in nickel plated from Midway. Bullets were a major problem also. I also like like Hornady bullets and shoot the interlocks and SST's in my 7 mag and 7mm-08.

I have some 4831sc that I will try and also some RL 17. Shows a load at about 2900fps.

Thanks again.

[.270]

sounds like a heck of a rifle. 54's are neat guns. sounds like you have a real special one. only thing i ever heard bad about em was the older ones had a 2 piece firing pin and it broke sometimes. the model is 70 is just an improved 54. 150's are ok, i know a couple guys who are serious deadly marksmen that use nothing but 150's. they actually will carry a little better at long ranges beause of the BC. i've never heard of a .270 with anything other than a 1 in 10" twist, so it should shoot them fine. i guess you know you can neck an '06 down to .270 real easy? i have a buncha that stuff i've made over the years. i've shot these 140's for long that i don't see any reason to change. how is that ol' man o' yours? tell him howdy for me. Lark.

[GameHauler]

Singleshot,

I have 62 pieces of RP brass

and 54 pieces of federal brass if you still need some.

I also have what looks to be a full box (100) of Speer 150gr Spitzers #1605

They would have to go in the $10.00 flat rate box.

If interested I would take $70.00 shipped to you.

[KGAINES]

Dang I wanted to know what load Lark thought you should shoot out of the 7mm-08.

 

Good luck on your wifes hunt.

[GameHauler]

Dang I wanted to know what load Lark thought you should shoot out of the 7mm-08.

 

Good luck on your wifes hunt.

 

Thanks Keith

[singleshot]

The nickel plated stuff from Midway came in and I have about 50 that I've picked up here and there so I'm set up for the time being but I sure appreciate the offers.

To be honest I have had this rifle for about 5 years and never fired a round through it. I received it with three boxes of old winchester silvertips with the grizzly bear coming around the rocks on the cartons. I figured I would save it for something special, grandson or something, but an early bull tag is all of that.

The old man is still getting by pretty good for 77 yrs. He lives in Alpine and still works half a day, doesn't matter which 12 hours it is, just half a day. He just finished a 300 WSM for a good friend in AAA stump figure and he said he was going to post a few pics. of it. He's doing a Thompson center muzzleloader right now for another friend. He's got a cow elk tag in December this year so I'm sure he's out poking around with his 35 Whelen.

He lives next door to Eichelbergs in the highlands so stop by and say Hi some time. My mom will have some home made bread and apple pie handy and I'm sure he would like to B.S.

[.270]

glad to hear that Steve is doing well. there have been a few men that really made a good impression on me when i was a kid, and he is one of em. i've always looked up to him. wirey ol' thing anyway. just so folks know, singleshot's dad is a retired professor and is a about as sharp about the outdoors as anyone i've ever known. i still use things he taught me about the indigeous species of the southwest on almost a daily basis. sharp guy and a true teacher. he's also a past president of the Arizona wildlife federation. and he is one helluva stock maker. no duplicating machines, just hand tools. he makes some of the most beautiful gun wood you've ever seen. one more thing on the .270. all of mine are real particular to cartridge overall length. don't make the bullet jump too far before it hooks up with the lands. you can really shrink your groups by tinkering with the amount of bullet "poke out". Lark.

[singleshot]

Thanks for the compliments on my dad, he's still sharp as ever, his mind has always been one of his biggest toys. He won a bet on an airline a few years back calculating the jets speed using his wrist watch and timing the wing tip travel over 40 acre sections of the midwest farm country. Freaked the stwardess and the pilot of the jet out.

I'll chamber a round with a bullet in backwards to get a good starting point on C.O.L.