I was in Sportsman Warehouse in Lewisville TX yesterday and saw some generic bullet - not Hotcore's or GS's, ie no name at all shown on the carton - loaded ammo at the cheapest price I've ever seen in the last bunch of years. These were in 270 WCF 130's and 30'06 150's at $9.50 a box.

Has anybody shot any of this stuff? On WT sized game? My Tikka 270 WTHunter will shoot Wallyworld $14 a box 130 & 150's WW's right at an inch or "minute of deer", and I am buying 300WMg 180 gr PowerShok HotCores from Gander Mtn at $12.99 a box that my M70 will shoot at a little over an inch consistenly, and I get Privi Partizan 285's for my CZ 9.3x62 from Graf also at a little over an inch.

I somehow lost most of my essential reloading gear during a recent move last fall, just discovered it this spring when I went to set up the bench for a summer reloading campaign...and at $9.50 a box for the 270's that's almost cheap enough to not go thru the hassle of having to buy couple hundred bux worth of gear for. Comments?
Ron

I found PowerShok to be very accurate in my 6.5x55 - surpringly so, since my reloaded Speer bullets were not. (I presumed at the time PS were Speer, and I don't know about now.)

I still have some, and would hunt whitetail deer with them - at 2550 fps - but I don't think I'd use them at a 270's velocity. There's too much chance of a bullet failure near 3000fps.

Jaywalker

I haven't shot factory stuff for quite awhile.

But I did pick up some 270 130 powershocks on sale before I really got serious about reloading. This was probably 15 years ago.

As far as I can remember, they zeroed in ok and the deer I shot didn't know the difference. In fact. It was those original 40 cases that I used to start reloading.

Must disagree. If the bullet doesn't work, everything that went right makes no difference.

That's not to say it will fail, just that the higher velocity makes it more likely.

Jaywalker

Been shooting the Hotcore Powershok's thru couple different 300Wmgs as practice ammo for last 3 years and never had any problem with accuracy.
Shot some GS's and Hotcore's out of the 270 last year after the move when all my stuff was still instorage and in prep for some late and after season hunting trips, again with no accuracy issue's, or performance issues on a couple WT doe's, a Indian blackbuck and hogs. Just really curious about these noname generics at such a low price I saw yesterday...and may have to buy some just for the hell of it at that price.
OBTW my pickyazzed M70 300WMg is the second 300Winnie I've had to spray remmy corelokts like a garden hose...and while it is not as dependable for sub MOA or close groups as the Savage 116 I traded off with the M70's 24" barrel it is a lot quieter from where I sit than the Savage's 20"s of rifleing + 2" factory muzzle brake barrel was, even in the brakes closed position.
Ron

All I use for bullets is either remington core-lokts or federal powershok's they all kill stuff very well it don't need to be premium.

I used the Federal Powershok 150 grain Soft Point last year to kill three deer. I shot a 125 lb. doe facing me, in the chest and the bullet exited behind the last rib with a quarter sized exit hole. I shot a 200 lb buck in the center of his shoulder and it exited the opposite shoulder with a quarter sized exit. I shot the other deer (a doe) in the neck and in the ribs and it still left a quarter sized exit hole. I think all in all, they are a good bullet for deer hunting. I do not know about anything bigger than deer as we don't have anything but deer here in Mississippi. I would put it on the same level as a Remington COrelokt or a Winchester Power Point.

7mm08, Thats the kind of answer I was looking for...and the conclusion I had come to for a bullet comparison.
Since I got off the high dollar deer leases here in Texas some years ago, most of the critters I take are all shot at around 75-150 yards or under. Last doe I shot was at 35 yards using Grand Slams that I had brought to use on the 2-300 lb hogs that are tearing up the place, and I was unhappy at the meat damage on a shoulder shot hit on the doe out of my 270. I was forced to take the only shot offered thru a cantalope sized hole I'd trimmed in a solid cedar bush when the doe would not step out in the clear anywhere and thought she was hiding behind the cedar bush like she had the morning before. The hogs were around again that nite because the solid rocky ground was licked clean but I never got a look/see.
Ron

I tried some 165 grainers in 30-06 and the accuracy was good.

I think some of the powershock ammo is speer hot cores and some is the old "Hi Shock" softpoint, but am not totally sure. If it's the latter, I have used and seen used the old Hi Shock 130 gr bullet in the .270 on WT and it's nothing special, just a plane old soft point. I wouln't rate it as good as the 130 corelock or even the Win PP, but it still worked well on the sub 200 lbs whitetails I shot with it. I think the federal soft point is a bit softer. I will note that these bullets were always very accurate for me and Federal was often closer to meeting advertised ballistics than either the cheap Win or Rem in my .270.

-Lou