Hello all just looking for some of your favorite .270 hunting loads with 130 gr bullets. JUST 130 gr I Have my own good load, just looking for options with different powders if I happen to run out of something I could use something else that I have, Thanks in advance.

A .270 load I always used to use was the 130 grain bullet with 54grains of IMR4350. It is approaching maximum so work up to it as in developing all loads for your particular rifle. It was a very accurate load for me.
joe

(270 Win) 130g NP, 56.5g IMR 4831, Fed 210. Only load I ever loaded. Killed a running hog @ 30 yds AFTER penetrating a 5-6 in mesquite tree.

For years I have used 53 grains of IMR 4350 but have thought about trying to up the number of grains.

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Originally posted by Texas Killartist:
(270 Win) 130g NP, 56.5g IMR 4831, Fed 210. Only load I ever loaded. Killed a running hog @ 30 yds AFTER penetrating a 5-6 in mesquite tree.

Bingo! I'm a chickin' shit and go with 53.7g of 4831, but only cause I like my shoulder. I get MOA groups, even with my cheeeeeeep rifle.
I think 4831 or 4350 would be in the same arena. Like TK said 56.5 is getting really close to a max load, probably in the neighborhood of 3100 fps.

IMR-4831 here too. 56 grs. under a Hornady 130 gr. Interlock. Started using that load in '74 or '75 and used it until I switched bullets to a 140 gr. Sierra BTSP Game King. Stayed with the same powder but dropped to 54 grs.

I use IMR 4831 too, but my go to is right from the Nosler book with 58.0 grains of RL22 and standard WLR primers.

60 grains of H4831 under a 130 grain Nosler Partition. Worked fantastic in my rifle, work up to it to make sure it's safe in yours.

Another vote for H4831, a near max listed load works well in my rifle.

Best of luck
Carl

H4831, sc or standard cut,59.5 grains, Nosler Partition,cci primer, circa 3000 fps, 0.34/0.50 moa.
Vit N160, 53.3 grains , Nosler solid base sp,cci primer, (after chrony'ing & going through a ballistics program,this load made first round hits on clay pigeon mounted on staves @ 600 yds!).
Ramshot Magnum, 60 grains, Nosler Accutip (Yellow), 2850 fps, 1.0moa.
Ramshot Magnum, 61 grains, Barnes old type copper mono, 0.50 moa, (Took my first ever running Boar in Germany with this load)

H4831

54 grains H4350 with any 130 WLR primer always

The "classic" load for 270/130 is 60.0 H-4831. I believe Jack O'Conner was the first to publish the load. I have used that load in seven different rifles over 25+ years and it was a winner in each one. Groups at 1" (often better), velocity usually at 3100 fps or more. I have never run it in a rifle that didn't like it.

130 grain Nosler boat tail ballistic tip
56 grains of H4831
Federal 210
est. 3,050 fps
.050" off lands
.25MOA
Note: Bullet disintegrated on whitetail heart shot at 70 yards.
No exit wound.

58gr H4831SC 130gr hot core win mod 70

I have had excellent success with 53.0g H-414 (W760) and Nosler 130g Partition.

I use 49.0 grains of IMR-4064.

Works for me.

IMR-4350, whatever is the maximum safe load in your rifle. I find that groups typically get smaller as the powder charge increases.

I use JACKS load in all the 270s Ive owned but it was 62 grs. of "OLD SURPLUS 4831" for about 3200 FPS give or take depending on the rifle itself..

I use 60 grs. of H4831 with the new stuff...I still have about 40 pounds of the old stuff in a US Army stainless steel air tight container. Origianlly held a 150 pounds..

RL-22 is about as good as it gets today.

For years I shot 59 grains of IMR 4831 behind Speer GS projectiles, seated .010" off the leade. Then I swapped to Accurate Arms powder, and upped the charge one grain.

That powder has now been discontinued, but I still have about 6# and cancer has me not hunting any more, at least for the present.

But IMR 4350 at 54 grains also shot very well for me the few times I tried it...

57grs. H4831sc. I get 2800fps and very accurate.

When I had a .270 I used 62.0g of H4831 in WW cases with a 130g Nosler BT. It produced an actual 3105fps out of a 22" barrel.

Before I gave that rifle to one of our sons I was thinking about also giving RL-22 a tryout.

You sure can't get enough H4831 in an 06 case to cause any harm, the problem is if you get too much it will push your bullets out overnight and then they stick in the chamber and jam your gun..I had a .270 pressure tested some year ago, and the most pressure I could get was 50,000 plus a little and that was a crammed full load..My 62 and 60 gr. load depending on which 4831 I used ran about 48,000 PSI in my guns, but like always work up from minimum loads to your guns maxs.

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
You sure can't get enough H4831 in an 06 case to cause any harm, the problem is if you get too much it will push your bullets out overnight and then they stick in the chamber and jam your gun..I had a .270 pressure tested some year ago, and the most pressure I could get was 50,000 plus a little and that was a crammed full load..My 62 and 60 gr. load depending on which 4831 I used ran about 48,000 PSI in my guns, but like always work up from minimum loads to your guns maxs.

The only cases I could get 62.0g of H4831 in my .270 cases were the WW, and that was with a lot of tapping and a drop tube. Great load and very accurate.

My .270 rifle now resides in Helena Montana and has been keep busy with elk, deer, and antelope judging from the pictures and the stories I get.

Teancum
I had to use the "Old Surplus milsurp 4831" no longer available to get 62 grs. in WW cases. None of the new stuff will hold that much for me unless I tapped and cramed I..I did a couple of cases to try, but the bullets worked forward over night so I had to single load them to shoot. Got some high velocity and not much pressure but its impracticle..My load wit the new 4831 is 59 to 60 grs. depending on the gun. I still have lots of the old stuff and I use 60 to 62 grs of it in both the 270 and 06..but lately prefer H414 in the 06.

55gr H4350 with the 130 TTSX seated to the first groove. not exactly sure of FPS but it shoots great. Suspect 3100 or so.