Got a thousand dollars to buy a gun and scope. Want a 270 win. caliber. Scope will probably be a Nikon Monarch 3X9X40 (I have one and really like it). My main concern is accuracy. I also like synthetic stocks. Want a 24" barrel. Which gun should I get?
Posts: 51 | Location: Arkansas | Registered: 05 July 2004
i am a die hard remmy fan but the first thought is a 70 classic stainless with the walnut stock. perfect balance and they just plain shoot............. woofer
Posts: 741 | Location: vermont. thanks for coming, now go home! | Registered: 05 February 2002
I'd buy an old Remington model 721 in 270 (24" barrel). You can get one for about $300 without much trouble. Have it re-blued. Then order up a Mcmillan stock (about $400) in a sporter style of your choice - personally I'd take the Sako hunter style (it can be made for a 721).
I love the 721s and 722s, and have found them to be capable of excellent accuracy as both factory rifles and as the basis for custom rifles.
Another choice would be a pre'64 model 70, which you should be able to find for $800. No sythetic stock though...
I am partial to model 70s. If I had1000 to spend to get a 270, I would find a used model 70 classic and have it stocked, The factory synthetics do not apeal to me at all. I also like your scope choice I have a monarch 3X9 , but I have 6 leupolds and they are better as faras I am concerned. If you bought a winchester classic blue with wood it would probably run about 560.00, new mount a Burris FF2 3X9, an excelent scope for under 200.you would only have to go up about another 50 bucks to get an HS precision synthetick stock...tj3006
id vote for the tikka t3 lite in .270 and a monarch scope i have a very accurate example in .270 with monarch 4x12x40 a/o scope way less than 1 in @100 yds with factory ammo only thing it doesnt have is the 24 in barrel but the accuracy sure doesnt suffer from it !! divr6347
I would have to say Remington Model 700 simply for their accuracy and dependability but, you are going to have a hard time finding a factory gun w/ a 24" bbl.
Good Luck!
Reloader
Posts: 4146 | Location: North Louisiana | Registered: 18 February 2004
i buy used Remington 700ks's for $650.00-750.00 and then the scope from Bear Basine but ask them for a better price..i have 6 ks's & they all shoot, if possible i'd get a 1st year they have a polished bolt and action.. their stock is Brown Precision Pounders..
Posts: 1125 | Location: near atlanta,ga,usa | Registered: 26 September 2001
I just returned from my local sporting goods store (Cousin is the owner) and bought a new Rem 700 stainless/synthetic in 270 cal. It has a 24" barrel as desired. Also bought a 3X9X40 Nikon Monarch scope and had it mounted and bore-sighted. Will zero and start shooting groups later today or tomorrow (I live on a farm, so can shoot anything at anytime). Bought a box of Win Supreme 130 gr Ballistic Silvertips.
Question for you experts. If the STs don't group as I want (at least 1&1/2 MOA @ 100yds), WHAT CARTRIDGE/BULLET COMBINATION SHOULD I TRY NEXT? Thanks for any responses.
Posts: 51 | Location: Arkansas | Registered: 05 July 2004
Congrads on your new rifle. I feel you will be very pleased.
I don't consider myself an expert like you said but, if the NBTs don't shoot (Which I doubt they wouldn't) I would try some HDY Customs in 140 grn SPILBTs. The Hdys shoot pretty good in my wife's 270. I haven't shot the factory stuff in a while but, I would imagine the hornady bullets are still close to the top of the line factory rounds.
Good Luck!
Reloader
Posts: 4146 | Location: North Louisiana | Registered: 18 February 2004
I just got drawn for Oregon antelope for the first time since 1992 and have been checking out which rifle I want to take.
Choice is now down to between an Armalloy'd FN Mauser with a custom walnut/walnut laminated stock in .280 Rem, and my old Model 70. The Mauser will shoot nice 3/4" groups with 120 gr. Pro-Hunter or 120 gr. Barnes-X bullets.
The '70 is a pre-'64 FW, and wears a B&L Balvar-8 in a Buehler Micro-Dial mount. Took it to the range last Sunday for the first time in 4 years, just to see if it still shoots and to check to see if it is still sighted in. (After all it IS a wood stock, and this part of Oregon is known for its WET, WET, WET winters and dry HOT summers.)
Anyway, using .270 ammo hand-loaded in '92 for my last antelope hunt, the first two shots at 100 yards touched each other, 2" high and exactly dead center for windage. Right exactly where/how it was shooting when last fired. Not too much wrong with that old M-70. In the past with this load in it, I have shot 3/4" groups at 200 yards with this rifle.
The load, BTW, is "somewhat more" than 61 grs, of the old, original H-4831, F-215 primer, and the standard Hornady 130 gr. spire point bullet, in W-W cases. The load is definitely too hot for many .270 rifles, but not for this particular one and produces a bit more than 3,150 FPS chrono'd velocity at 20 feet from the 22" barrel.
If I had a $Grand for another .270, I'd try to put together another one exactly like the one I've got.
In the meantime, I think this one deserves the chance to go hunting one more time...
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Posts: 9685 | Location: Cave Creek 85331, USA | Registered: 17 August 2001
I own to 270's, both of them Mod. 70s. One is an old push feed Featherweight and the other is one of the new Classic Super Grades. Both of them shoot well enough that if you do you part of the job, they'll put the meat in the freezer for you.
