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Old 10-21-2007 | 08:10 AM
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Default RE: Sighting in .270

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I bought a .270 savage with a 3x9 nikon monarch scope. Does anyone know the ballistics on this? Im shooting 130grain bullets.

I was thinking 50yds, that way it will shoot a little high at 100 and right on at 200?
I've owned two .270's, both Mannlicher-Schoenauer fullstock carbines with 20" barrels. I had two loads, one used the 130-grain Nosler Partition bullet with 55.5 grains of IMR 4350, and the other used the 150 grain Nosler Partition with 53.5 grains IMR 4350. I zeroed these rifles to hit +4"@ 100 yards. They then hit +4" @ 200 yards, and 4" @ 300 yards, and BOTH BULLET WEIGHTS shot to essentially the same POI at 100 and 200 yards. (A known propensity of the .270 Win., and the .375 H&H as well.)

The last .270 M/S was one I bought in 1964. After mounting a Lyman Alll-American 4X fixed-power scope on it and zeroing it in 1964, every year after that I'd fire ONE ROUND each fall to check the rifle's zero before hunting with that rifle. I sold it in 1987, and when I sold it, it was still shooting to the exact same POI it was zeroed for in 1964! In all those years, it NEVER CHANGED zero - what a dummy I was for parting with that rifle!!!
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