Gentlemen, anyone care to share your favorite .270 loads with a re-starting loader. I loaded for my'06 25 years ago, dad for his 270. now I have his RCBS press and some 10 yr old (bullets, powder, cases, primers, everything) he hasn't touched it for years. He had 140Gr Boat-tail and 110Gr HP Hornady, and Nosler 130Gr BT (not Partition). He had some H-414 leftover and 7 kinds of primers from 10 to 20 years old, Would they still be good? (Not that you can find any at the store right now!) His brass varies from RP to Win. Super Steel to Norma, all reloaded however many times. If there are no visible signs should I still use it? His RCBS Guide/data
book is from 1975 I suppose I shouldn't use those load recipes any more? If you Vets would like to point this re-start in the right direction I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Barry

p.s and FYI, He built a glass bedded Mauser action on a gorgeous piece of French Walnut, floated barrel, the whole works. That's what we'll be loading for. His Grandson shot his first buck with it last fall-about made dad cry.
(or was that me?)

Anyway Thanks guys.

Standard load to kill things with a .270 is a 130 grain bullet at about 3000 or so. I like a Barnes TSX with 44 grains of Varget for that job.

But... Barnes has just released an 85 grain TSX in .270. I know that an 85 grain TSX .243 kills deer just fine at 3200 so I have to believe that an 85 grain .270 TSX at ~3600 ought to make it interesting.

Barry, H414 will work but is not known as a popular 270 favorite powder. I would try those primers. I've loaded some that were bought in 1989 and they worked fine.

You should update your load books, or definitely go online to the various powder company sites and search load data.

My favorite powders for the 270:

4350, 4831, Re19, Re22, VV160, VV165. I have found excellent accuracy with a little velocity reduction with IMR4064.

IMR7828 also seems to work very well, but I don't have a lot of experience with this one.

I prefer Winchester brass and Norma brass.

The first thing I'd do is anneal all of the cases that look ok.

My ultimate recommendation is to try the 130 grain Noslers with H4831SC.

I've tried H4831 H4350 H450 H1000 IMR7828 and all preformed very well with 130, 140, and 150gr. bullets. Although the only one that gave decent velocity with a 26" barreled Rem sendero without high pressure or highly compressed loads was H450. The 1 pound of H450 (now discontinued) I had was the only one I could find, had been sitting on a shelf behind other powders for the better part of a decade.

I've since moved to balls powders for ease of loading, and found Accurate Magpro to give very good velocity. With 150gr SST or 150 Berger VLDs and 59gr magpro I can get 3080fps in my 28" barreled Browning 1885 High-wall, cases lasting around 5-7 loadings before primer pockets start to loosen up. Can push it up to 3150fps with 61.5 but primer pockets are loose after 1 or 2 loadings.

I'm currently waiting on 8lbs of Ramshot Magnum, will be trying to duplicate the previous load with a little less pressure.

I've had good luck in the 270's I've owned over the years with 62.0g of H4831 in W-W cases with a 130g. Nosler, either partition or BT. Should come out of the barrel around 3100fps and is accurate and deadly on elk and deer.

Those components should be just fine with that age if storage in some cool dry location. Good luck.

i like to load 54 grs of 4350 with 130s.. or IMR 4831 with 56 grs with 130s.. i find 4350 to be the most accurate in the guns i load for..

First of all: buy at least two recently edited manuals. Than perhaps some new equipment. I would use the old stuff only to try some reloading if you are new in reloading, not for serious load development.
Than I should buy new brass (RWS is excellent)new primers, the bullet of your choice, all components of one lotnumber. Develop your load and use the method of Audette, or the 'Berger' vision.

My petload for my Remington is a TTSX 130grainer over 60 grains H 4831sc. Velocity 3200 fps (chrono'd). About 0.65 MOA.

Nice day,
Jan

About a half dozen 270s I've loaded for all shoot well with Hornady 130 Interlocks, 60.0 H4831 and CCI-200 primers.

Here is some data available online.
http://data.hodgdon.com/cartridge_load.asp
http://www.nosler.com/index.php?p=15&b=270cal&s=87

I liked IMR4350 and 130 grain Ballistic Tips.

Your old primers should be fine. I have loaded a bunch of 10-20 year old primers, no problems.

130 gr ballistic tip 50 gr IMR4895 2900 fps 22" barrel.

It really gets the job done on deer out to 500 yards.

Is is +5-6 for the 60 gr H4831 SC with 130 TSX/TTSX.

It looks like the favorite is the 130 Gr for most of you, and the H4831 or the
IMR4350 powders the others I have never heard of but I'm sure they are good.
I think I used the H414 to load 130gr for my '06 so that would be 25 yr old powder.

Thanks for the loading tips, hopefully we can bring it back to driving tacks.

Thanks, Barry

DOC, you suggested that I "Anneal" all the cases that look good. I don't recall what that process entails, Is that like 'tumbling' them to polish them up? refresh me, Thanks, Barry

One other question, When looking at a ballistics table some have the pressure rated in PSI, and others are rated in CUP's how do you figure the equivalencies of pressure for those loads?
Barry