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I need some input from you guys who have used this calibre on big game. I found a very nice M70 Featherweight in 270 Weatherby Mag, complete with dies and a Kahles Helia scope on my local gun shop at a very good price. If I buy it it will be used for moose and red deer here in Norway, but I am a bit in the dark about this calibre and how suited it is for such use? Long range is not an issue as longest shot will be around 200 yds, so oridary stalking and high seat is the norm. What about bullets, will A-Frame in 150 grs be a good choice? Arild Iversen. | ||
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I have used a 270Weatherby on red deer in Scotland with 130gr Nosler Partitions. It did fine. I would think it would do fine on moose with any premium 150 gr bullet such as a Nosler, A frame, or TBBC. Birmingham, Al | |||
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Stay with a premium 150 gr bullet and you should do well. If a longer shot presents itself your rifle will certainly be up to the challenge. | |||
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I've got a couple of them. For the use you're describing you've got nothing to worry about. | |||
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Thank you Gentlemen. A last question about bullets. As I plan (if I buy the gun) to use it on red deer, pigs and moose (mainly moose), I guess the + 150 grs bullet will be the best pick. A-Frame has the 150 grs, Norma has the Oryx at 156 grs, and Woodleigh a Weldcore PP, weight 180 grs. And there is the monometal bullets which I have no experience with. As I am a meat hunter, I`m concerned about loosing as little meat as possible. Ant good bullet advice ? Arild Iversen. | |||
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If your shop has a bore scope you may want to check the throat for excessive erosion. This and the 257 can last a lifetime of typical one or two box a year hunting but if shot a lot or with particularly hot hand loads the throats go fast... | |||
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Weatherby ammo is pretty darn pricey.  All The Best ... | |||
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Go with the A-frame and be happy. That is a tough bullet that won't explode at Weatherby velocities. My father has a .270 Weatherby and has used the A-frame bullet a fair amount. Great results on deer and antelope with only moderate meat damage. He also likes the 160gr Nosler Partition. Jeremy | |||
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FWIW, Jack O’Connor shot handfuls of Canadian and Alaskan moose (larger than the Scandinavian variety) with .270 WCF rifles and found that the 130 Nolser did just as well as the 150 Partition. . | |||
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The 270 Wby is about the flattest shooting rifle out there, and its a good one. It needs a 24 or 26 inch barrel to really show its stuff.. I have never found the 22" barrel fwt. std. 270 lacking with either 130 ro 150 gr. bullets..Most of the elk and deer Ive killed were with the 130 gr. Rem Corelokt and later on the Nosler partition..Given my druthers, I'll take the 130 gr. Nosler partition for deer and elk..I actually prefer the 30-06 but not by much..The .270, 280, 30-06, 7x57, and a host of others including all the Imp versions are all about the same in the field, thus the futility of comparison. Same for most of the magnums compared to each other... The 270 Wby is an orphan and over looked child and that is a shame, its an awesome caliber for open country and kills like a sledge hammer between the eyes. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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I'm taking a 270 Weatherby on one of my little cull hunts in August. Fallows and reds, near and far. | |||
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What caliber have you been using so far?.. DRSS: HQ Scandinavia. Chapters in Sweden & Norway | |||
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Accubond is a good bullet also to choose, but difficult to wrong eith Aframe. was mr Rigby before a pc crash | |||
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I took a black bear with it using Barnes TTX bullets. The bear went about 2 feet, .75 meters. Straight down and never moved again I was very impressed. Unlike the next bear that I intentionally shot over its head from 6 meters away. I was cleaning a moose and it wanted a tax of some sort. I launched one over its head and it was not impressed at all. Matt | |||
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Wife will try 160-grain NP load on zebra in October. 140-grain TSX's were one-shot good medicine on gemsbok and waterbuck in 2007. I'm sure your 150's will do fine. My load for baboon uses 150-grain TSX's. Will "report" results / pics after the safari. _______________________ | |||
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Arild, As good a caliber as the 270 Wby is, you have a fwt rifle with a 22 inch barrel, it will not out perform the std 270 by enough to make any difference as your not burning all that powder, its just blowing out the barrel. That big case with all that powder to burn needs 26 inches to perform to specs..I would suggest rebarreling it to a std. 270 with a 22 inch barrel or go with a 26 inch std. wt. barrel.. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Just used a .270Wea in Poland on roebucks. What can I say bad about it... DRSS: HQ Scandinavia. Chapters in Sweden & Norway | |||
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I have an old beat up Mark V in 270 Weatherby. I shoot 150g Partition handloads at about 3150 fps. It's a tack driver if you let the barrel cool (hit a scuba tank at 845 yards several times in a row). Like the 270 Win I gave my son better but, it's a great caliber. Regards, Chuck "There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit" Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness" | |||
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It will flatten the red deer. Factory Ammo: Weatherby makes a 150 gr Nosler Partition factory load, Nosler makes a 150 gr Accubond factory load. If hand loading, I'd start with a 150 gr mininum: Swift Aframe, Northfork, Norma Oryx. Now, Norma makes a 165 gr Oryx in .277 and Woodleigh makes a 180gr!!!!! Those would be smashers. You can push the 180 gr bullet at 3,000 fps easily. "Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" -- Ronald Reagan "Ignorance of The People gives strength to totalitarians." Want to make just about anything work better? Keep the government as far away from it as possible, then step back and behold the wonderment and goodness. | |||
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Jens, I have been using both 35 Whelen and 30-06. My moose rifle now is a Kimber in 338-06, and for the lesser stuff a M70 Featherweight in 30-06. On our moose lease, there is quite a few open stretches where I thought the 270 WB would shine. Arild Iversen. | |||
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I think my Mark V which I paid $800 for is crying out for slightly heavier 24" barrel with a 1 in 9" twist and a lighter synthetic stock. If there only were 165g premium (bonded) boattail spitzer bullets in .277 caliber. It's so damn accurate with the 150g Partitions I'm probably not going to change a thing. Picture of the rifle from the Cabelas library I bought it from  Regards, Chuck "There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit" Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness" | |||
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I used my 270 weatherby to kill multiple elk very well. Bullet of choice is 130 gr Barnes tsx and never found a bullet in any elk. Very flat shooting and easy on the shoulder. | |||
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My BAR in 270 Wea. shoots 140 gr and 150 gr bullets very well. With 130 gr bullets I get patterns instead of groups. Seems to me you have a great round in a rifle that is not quite suited to it. | |||
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Arild So what have you loaded in your 270 Wby so far ? What bullets have you tried ? What bullets are grouping in your rifle ?? Have you shot anything with it yet ??? | |||
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The most important detail when using the .270 Weatherby, is to make sure the barrel is 26" long.  | |||
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@snowman, the rifle got sold before I made my mind up, so by now I will be hunting moose with my Kimber in 338-06 A-Square this fall. Not a bad option by any means  As the Winchester in question had a 22" barrel it was perhaps not an ideal rifle anyhow for the 270 Wby, ref. what Ray Atkinson and Lawndart said. Arild Iversen. | |||
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Sorry to hear you sold the 270 Wby before you did a little testing. I came across s Wby barrel that had a factory muzzle break. I do not like muzzle breaks but the barrel was given to me. So I thought I would play with it. With the break removed the barrel is barely 23 inches long. Machined up a cap to cover the threads at the muzzle and re-threaded the breach end to fit an old mauser 98 action that was laying around. Did a little chronographing and found the 130 gr loads were not much faster than 270 Win loads. However with 150 gr bullets and 7828 powder I'm getting 3050 to 3070 fps.Not bad for a short barrel. This is still at least 100 fps less than velocities you would see in a long barreled 270 Wby but still a very effective cartridge. I was hoping to hear what results you were getting. | |||
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I've got two 270 Wbys. A Mauser VZ-24 with a 26" Pacnor barrel and a Montana 1999 with a 25.5 in barrel. Both shoot 130gr TTSX bullets at about 3300 fps sub MOA using either 67.9gr of H4831sc or 76.0gr of Retumbo. The Retumbo loads are slightly faster, about 50fps, but the H4831sc is the most accurate. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. --Winston Churchill "Oh, nothing Mom, just pounding primers with a hammer ..." Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. | |||
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DDSIPE, Did you need to do, or have done work on the feed rails to get the Mausers to feed well? | |||
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I did not modify the feed rails, but I did have to replace the bottom metal and follower. It's been over 15 years since I did the work and I don't remember exactly what I did. I think it was a follower from a Win M70 7mm Mag. I can't remember which new bottom metal I used, might have been Sunny Hill. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. --Winston Churchill "Oh, nothing Mom, just pounding primers with a hammer ..." Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. | |||
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Thank you for that information. | |||
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The rest of the story would be nice. | |||
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I really don’t see the need for the 270 Weatherby when the 7mm Remington Magnum exists and rarely hot loaded these days to full potential. | |||
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Interesting. I am changing my 7mm Remington Magnum to either a 270 Weatherby Magnum, or a 7mm Weatherby Magnum. I have trouble getting good accuracy out of my 7mm Rem Mag with 160-grain bullets anywhere above 2,850-fps. With a buddy's 270 Weatherby, the 150, and 150-grain bullets run plenty fast, and stack up on each other at the target. Everybody has different experiences. | |||
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I also have a 7mm Wby on a win m70 that used to be a 7mm RM, and haven’t been able to get the same level of accuracy as with my 270 Wbys what ever caliber you decide, stick with a 26” barrel if you want optimal velocity with the Wby calibers. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. --Winston Churchill "Oh, nothing Mom, just pounding primers with a hammer ..." Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. | |||
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Either caliber will serve you well. The animals will never notice the .007" difference in bulletdiameter. The 7mm Weatherby seems however to fade out. Not many manufactures besides Weatherby makes this caliber. I rarely see ammunition in our gunshops for this caliber. I do see Norma .270Wea ammunition from time to time The .270Wea is also made in Blaser, Sauer and Mauser rifles. Besides myself I know of atleast 3 others here in Denmark who use .270Wea. I can`t say enough good things about the .270Wea...Roy did it right!!. DRSS: HQ Scandinavia. Chapters in Sweden & Norway | |||
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Good post from Denmark.....say hello to Jorgen Neilson for me next time you see him. He don't post here much anymore. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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As to the .270 Weatherby.....lets face it folks....all the belted standard length magnums under .35 caliber are of minimal incremental value over such rounds as the standard .25-06, 6.5-06, .270 Win, .280 Rem, .30-06, .338-06 and .35 Whelen..... /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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Huh? Roger ___________________________ I'm a trophy hunter - until something better comes along. *we band of 45-70ers* | |||
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Double huh. | |||
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