270 load for moose
07-04-2008, 10:24 PM
#11
Typical Buck
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RE: 270 load for moose
I'm also quite partial to a 6.5x55 with 42gr of IMR 4350 under a 160 Hornady and a mag primer.Never have recovered a bullet yet and you can eat right up to the bullet hole!...................Harold *only shot deer with the 140's but I'm sure they work.
07-05-2008, 01:41 PM
#12
Giant Nontypical
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RE: 270 load for moose
ORIGINAL: bradisthebest
Hi i am going moose hunting this year and will be using a 270win. I was wondering what a good load would be out of this gun for moose.
Hi i am going moose hunting this year and will be using a 270win. I was wondering what a good load would be out of this gun for moose.
07-06-2008, 05:01 PM
#13
Nontypical Buck
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RE: 270 load for moose
I was going to say with this or for that matter with any number of other bigger caliber rifles with more power, stick with on of the excellent partition or bonded core bullets (e.g Nosler, Hornady)165 gr.
I've been told by an old Finlander, as lately as this morning, by a fellow who while stationed in Alaska in the 50's hunted Moose there. He said a double lung shot that carries all the way through will take a bull Moose down. He took to big bulls that way.
I think a couple key things are that the bullet needs to hit with enough force with a bullet that'll retain most of it's original weight both to take out the lungs and through and through to bleed it our faster. A Moose needs the big lung capacity to go through what they do. Take that from them and they will come down.
I've been told by an old Finlander, as lately as this morning, by a fellow who while stationed in Alaska in the 50's hunted Moose there. He said a double lung shot that carries all the way through will take a bull Moose down. He took to big bulls that way.
I think a couple key things are that the bullet needs to hit with enough force with a bullet that'll retain most of it's original weight both to take out the lungs and through and through to bleed it our faster. A Moose needs the big lung capacity to go through what they do. Take that from them and they will come down.
07-07-2008, 07:25 AM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2008
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RE: 270 load for moose
The 270win and 150gr partitions is a very effective and time proven moose round. Kills hundreds of each year in Ontario. I do perfer a larger caliber like the 30-06/308, or 35whelen/358win, but the 270win has benn doing it for years.
07-07-2008, 01:46 PM
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RE: 270 load for moose
ORIGINAL: DM
I'm just wondering... How many moose does it take to make a "truck load"??
DM
ORIGINAL: Pioneer2
I've shot truckloads of moose with nothing other than 130gr Hornady handloads.
I've shot truckloads of moose with nothing other than 130gr Hornady handloads.
DM
Definately would depend on the truck.Every moose I have shot at wouldhave broken down my little toyota pickup.
07-07-2008, 05:12 PM
#17
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RE: 270 load for moose
I'd use the 130-grain Barnes TTSX bullet in your 270 Win. I'm buying a 270 WSM for the wife this year to use for moose and caribou hunting and the above mentioned bullet is what I'll be reloading for her rifle. Now I just have to wait for new the Winchester rifles to show up!
