Has anyone used Speer Nitrex rounds say in .270 or 30-06?? If you did what; what did yo think about them??

I have used the Nitrex in my '06 with 165 grain bullets. I have taken several deer with this load. No problems with performance, all were pass throughs. The accuracy was good in my rifles. Honestly, I have also gotten equal performance from Remington Core-lokt and Hornady Custom loads. For deer size game, either will work. If you are talking something bigger, I would then go to a premium bullet. I like Nosler Partitions or Trophy Bonded Bearclaws.

I have found them to be pretty accurate in the limited testing at the range I have done.

As I recall they are loaded with the Grand Slam which is a very nice bullet. My friend scored eight one shot kills with a 160 grain grand slam in Africa last summer.

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A friend acquired several boxes of 150gr., 270s at a SCI fund-raiser some years ago: five shots later, at various ranges in TX, MT and PA, four dead whitetails and a mulie.

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A friend of mine took his 270 Win with 150 gr Nitrex and a 308 Win with 180 Nitrex on an African Plains game hunt this summer.

He was quite impressed with the performance, but did conseed, that the 270 was a bit "light" for Zebra, Kudu, and Wildebeest.

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Paleohunter,

I used Speer Nitrex 180 gr Grand Slam factory loads in a .308 Win in Zimbabwe in September. They worked fine, most of them exited. I did recover one bullet from an almost Texas heart shot (hip on one side to shoulder on the other, or corner-to-corner), which retained about 85%IIRC.

I decided to take the same load to Saskatchewan for a whitetail hunt next week. At the range last Saturday checking sights my last two shots to check the zero went into a .157" "group" at 100 yards. This rifle is a Steyr and is accurate, but so obviously are those loads.

jim

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