I have a couple boxes of these sitting around. Never loaded them. I've taken deer in my ruger super redhawk using 24.0 h110 and Hornady xtp.
Thought I might give the speers a try.

I suspect they work quite well on deer.

I dont have a recent Speer manual. What is their listed start and max load for this bullet w/ H110 ?

What have others found with this bullet ?

I did search and found some favorable comments

Bughole, I use the Speer 270 GD for my deer hunting out of my Ruger SBH 7.5" 44 Mag. I use 20.5 grains of H110. This is not a max load, but gives me around 1275 fps and is accurate in my revolver. On the whitetails I've shot, it has performed nicely, exhibiting good expansion and penetration. My shots were all within 75 yards. I had to call Speer to get their Min/Max on this bullet since I didn't have their newer manual. Good Luck and Good Shooting...RW

It has been an awesome combo for me in my 10" contender barrel. I used 21 gr. of H110.

Still shoot the 240 xtp and love the 240 gdsp for deer and 26gr of H-110. And for elk and bear, use the 270gdsp with 21.5 H-110-7 1/2 Ruger Redhawk. Both are max loads and very accurate

I have used these bullets (270 GDSP) on Deer and hogs weighing up to 350 lbs. I did not load these loads myself. I bought a box of them loaded by buffalo bore and they state on the box that they have a velocity at the muzzle of 1450 fps. Never checked it, but it must be close. These things really fly!!!
I shot a 100-120 pound doe with this bullet in the very back portion of the stomach, She was angled away at a very extreme angle. The bullet completely penetrated this deer with a large exit hole in the side of her chest or right in front of her offside shoulder, however you want to look at it. She ran 20 yards. No meat was damaged, but the cleaning job was a little messy. Bullet was not recovered. No heavy bone was hit, so not sure about expansion, but it had a nice sized exit wound.

Last May, I shot a 350 pond porker with the same buffalo bore load. Shot it at 30 yards in the shoulder. Hole in facing shoulder, blew the far shoulder up, stopped just under the hair on the farside. Perfect mushroom, but still had a long shank.

I like this bullet for a jacketed bullet. I like to make my own bullets, but if I were to buy some more - thses would be the ones.

All this applies to the .44 caliber bullet, as I was using a Super Blachawk 44 rem. mag.
not sure what caliber you were asking about, but I assume it was the 44.

David Thomas

TRied 21grs h110 with super redhawk(9.5"bbl ported). The OAL is 1.585, and only got 1240fps. Speer lists 1309fps with 7.5bbl and 21grs h110.
I'll try 21.5 - 21.7. Shoots nice though