How "reduced" do they have to be? I used to shoot the 110 grain Sierra with 58 grains of IMR 4350. It would totally disassemble the porcupines and jackrabbits I used it on, and would no doubt have been OK for small deer too! Recoil was almost totally nonexistent!
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probably around 50%. Our deer can get fairly large, my nine point last year weighed 190 and the 10 point my dad shot weighed 170. shot on the farm across the road from our farm. And we live in Centre county,PA
Reducing the recoil by 50% and still having adequate energy for big bodied deer is going to be very tough to do.You might be better off trading the 270win on a 243.
I have been playing with the 110 sierra pro hunter and I tried Varget 49 to52.3 grs,IMR 4064 49 t0 51.7 grs.and Imr 4350.the recoil wasn't bad at all.I got 3-shot one hole groups with Var=52.3 at 3265fps,Imr 4064=50.8 grs at 3250 fps and IMR 4350=56.6 grs at 3077 fps.These are with a 24 in barrel remington sps.The largest group was 1.1 inches at 100 yds.
The IMR 4350 with 56.6 grs would be the least recoil and at over 3000 fps it should work ok on those deer.I am thinking of trying it myself this year.
I got all these loads out of the new hornady manuel.
You may want to try the rem reduced recoil loads also I set up a nef for my brother to take his grandson deer hunting and they were pretty darn accurate,they use the 115 ulta cor-loc bullet,don't know how they done on deer he didn't see any when he took him.
Hope this helps.and good luck to your grandfather.
with these loads Id limit his shooting to around a 150 yards within that range they should be adequate for deer. I personally would use hodgdon's method of determining a youth load But use a load with a 120 grain bullet and work it up till I was at a velocity around 2800 fps that would give me a little more piece of mind to be comfortable at ranges out to 200 yards.
more info on it here -> http://www.hodgdon.com/data/youth/index.php
good luck hope this helps
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This is from the Speer#10 manual..270 win[ 100gr bullet-SR4759-20gr @1915fps MAX][18gr @ 1743fps][16gr@1548fps] [FOR 130gr bullet-SR4759-24gr @1998fps MAX][22gr@1833fps][20gr@1651fps] NOW LASTLY 150gr bullet data[SR4759-26gr@1957fps MAX][24gr@1824fps][22gr@1655fps] These would also make good small game trapline chicken loads[grouse]Head shooting beavers etc...............standard primers of course....Harold
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