Deer loads for .270 Ruger American?

[JJB11B]

I picked up a .270 Ruger American and want to deer hunt with it, what is everyone shooting that is accurate?

[Karl Blanchard]

I just started the same project for one of my old youth hunters. He was wanting to pep things up a bit but he's a man on a budget. We got some 150gr Nos Ballistic tip seconds from shooters pro shop, Nosler brass, and fed 210 primer. I very much like how ballistic tips perform when not pushed too hard. 130gr at whiz bang fast and they are messy. 150's around that 2900 mark and they perform like an accubond but half the price. Ran a ladded test to find pressure on saturday with Imr4350, imr4831, and imr7828ssc. All three powders shot well. Couldn't tell you all the specifics off the top of my head but I can rattle off some stuff when I get home tonight.

[BigGoonTuna]

I'll be taking my 270 east this year. Barnes ttsx 110gr over ramshot hunter at a smidge under 3500fps, hold dead on to about 350yd.

[yakimarcher]

Before I started reloading, I found that my rifle shot hornady american whitetail 130's very well, much better than the superformance with the sst's. Now i shoot 140 sst's over 59 gr of h4831, very accurate, but the bullet just falls apart on deer. I'm going to try out some barnes.

[JJB11B]

I got a box of 130gr SST superformance, shot well. I grabbed a box of precision hunter 145 ELD-X’s haven’t shot them yet

[MrE4853]

I have a tikka t3 lite in .270 and it shoots Hornady American whitetail really well, about 1 moa and also likes 150 gr Nosler partition with 56 gr of IMR 4831 1 moa as well (out to 500 anyway)

[Lumpy Taters]

I have had no luck with the Hornady American Whitetail brand ammo. Bought a couple boxes for the 270 and one for the 7mm-08.  Had at least half of the 7 ammo fail to fire and 5 of the 270 fail.  Contacted the manufacturer and they said they would replace what failed if it was not a light firing pin strike.  Never had any problems with either riffle ever before no matter what brand I shot. Did a quick search on the net and found others having the same problem with that brand.  Just cant trust it now so I am sticking with the Nosler ballistic tips for this season.

[MADMAX]

Weatherby vanguard in 270 win
Dropped my mulie last year @ 280 yds using hornady precision hunter 145 eldx
Excellent bullet retention

https://www.hornady.com/ammunition/rifle/270-win-145-gr-eld-x-precision-hunter#!/

[Jason]

My son's both shoot Ruger Americans in .270, best load I found was 57gr of H4831sc pushing 140gr Accubonds, coal of 3.322" which is about max length for the magazine.

[scottfrick]

The wife and I both had this same rifle. We topped ours with vortex diamondback 3x9 scopes and the best factory ammo we found for them were federal power-Shok 150 grns. (Blue box). Both rifles were tax drivers with this ammo.

[steeleywhopper]

Mine loves the Barnes 130gr TTSX factory ammo.

[Eric M]

Before i started reloading, I always had good luck with the 130 grain Remington Core Lokt.

[JJB11B]

I reload but I am currently not ready to start reloading for .270. I am reloading for .243 trying to fix accuracy issues there, I think I found the problem with that gun. .160 is way too far of a jump to the lands. I have no idea how or why I was that short there 


I have a sneaking hunch that I need to measure the headspace in that .270, I don't have the bushing for my comparator 

[JJB11B]

So I measured the chamber of my rifle using the Hornady tool. With a 140g Sierra Boat tail. The measurement I got to the lands was 2.760, the factory ammo was 2.660 base to ogive. Gonna have to play with seating depth to find some accuracy it looks like

[JJB11B]

I loaded 15 rounds and hit the range brand new hornady brass ran through a RCBS full length die, CCI 200 primers, 5 rounds 49.7 gr H4350, 5 rounds 50.7 gr, 5 rounds 51.7 gr. All seated .025 off the lands  The 49.7 gr load was listed in the Sierra book as the most accurate load in their test rifle. Nothing was under 1.5MOA. I know it’s not me because I was shooting a 10” gong at 711 yards in between these groups and hitting it with dang near the same rifle chambered in 6.5 Creed.