270win for sambar

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Re: 270win for sambar

Post by Seik » 19 Nov 2015, 11:27 am

tony m wrote:The .270 win is very good on elk and I use the very best bullets out there..Barnes, Nosler etc.


What Noslers are you using?

Partition or Accubond I guess?
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Re: 270win for sambar

Post by tony m » 19 Nov 2015, 9:12 pm

Seik wrote:
tony m wrote:The .270 win is very good on elk and I use the very best bullets out there..Barnes, Nosler etc.


What Noslers are you using?

Partition or Accubond I guess?
I use the partition, have not tried the bonded bullet..friends like them though.These days I choose the all copper mono's for a animal like a bull elk, even a light bullet will penetrate and a light bullet is prefered because it must be driven fast.With the Barnes 129 gr lrx you can get 3200 fps fairly easily.This goes through shoulder bone (both) and of course vitals.THE Nosler partition is proven too.It is great to discuss this with you Aussies.What have you found?
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Re: 270win for sambar

Post by Bourt » 20 Nov 2015, 10:49 am

Haven't heard anyone say they don't like the Accubonds, they're good bullets.

Heard everyone say they don't like the price tag though :lol:
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Re: 270win for sambar

Post by tony m » 21 Nov 2015, 12:57 am

Bourt wrote:Haven't heard anyone say they don't like the Accubonds, they're good bullets.

Heard everyone say they don't like the price tag though :lol:
I believe the ab is a good bullet too.The bullet you choose is far more important than the caliber imo.How does the woodleigh perform?
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Re: 270win for sambar

Post by tony m » 24 Nov 2015, 12:40 am

wrenchman wrote:The white tail deer can run up to 300 in the north for a real good mature deer but the avg across the country is about 175 to 200 lbs
With the avg doe going about 130 to 150lbs.
Where are you from wrenchman? The Sambar sound interesting to me too... They look like an elk type animal to me.Elk are tough around here..far tougher than our moose which is larger.The .270 win is plenty for either providing a quality bullet is used imo
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Re: 270win for sambar

Post by Tinked » 24 Nov 2015, 9:45 am

tony m wrote:How does the woodleigh perform?


Everything I've seen has been very good.

The Weldcore are popular. Bonded with thick, uniform jackets. Weight retention is somewhere in the order of 90% which is about the best you can ask form.

For the .270 they do 130gr and 150gr bullets from memory I think.

A 150gr WC would drop any Sambar, no question. (with the right shot placement of course.)
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Re: 270win for sambar

Post by MtnMan » 15 Mar 2023, 1:45 pm

Any one use 150gr Speer Grand Slams?
I might be hunting sambar later in the year. I have a load of 51.5gr AR2209 behind these bullets for 2650fps. I might try and bump that up a bit.
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Re: 270win for sambar

Post by animalpest » 15 Mar 2023, 7:03 pm

Don't know about Grand Slams in a .270 but the original bullet was terrific on buffaloes out of a 30/06. My fav
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Re: 270win for sambar

Post by SCJ429 » 15 Mar 2023, 8:08 pm

animalpest wrote:Don't know about Grand Slams in a .270 but the original bullet was terrific on buffaloes out of a 30/06. My fav

At the risk of repeating what he said.... +1 what he said.
Used a Speer Grand Slam out of a 7mm to flatten a bull Sambar.
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Re: 270win for sambar

Post by wrenchman » 16 Mar 2023, 9:55 am

Tony I live in Michigan
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Re: 270win for sambar

Post by MtnMan » 16 Mar 2023, 10:11 am

With 53.8gr of AR2209 behind the 150gr grand slam I got it up to 2850fps.
What's weird is when I loaded 54gr the velocity went down nearly 100fps. Not sure what's going on there. Anyway, 53.8gr shoots about an inch lower at 100m than my 130gr bullet loads so it is close enough.
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