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<blockquote data-quote="nicholasjohn" data-source="post: 2320645" data-attributes="member: 109113"><p>There's only one way to find your maximum tolerance level for gun-related monkeying around. The 270 Weatherby is a great cartridge, but if it's too much fussing around, the old 270 is still a winner. It seems that the difference in performance wasn't worth the hassle for you. I found out the same thing with the 30-06 Ackley years ago. It was a great performer, but I got it right about the time they came out with the higher performance ammunition for the regular '06, negating the performance advantage. I was doing all the fire-forming and load development to get the same velocities I could get right out of the box with Federal Hi-Energy ammunition. Well, they don't make that anymore, and I wasn't smart enough to have bought a case of it years ago. The Hornady Superformance ammo generates the same high velocity, but my old rifle doesn't group well with it. I still have the Ackley, and I'll probably be cooking up a new load for it with one of the newer powders. It seemed at the time like my Improved rifle, with all the associated monkeying around, was rendered obsolete by this new ammo, but now I'm seeing that I may have had it built before its time. When powder becomes more available, I'll find out what this rifle will do to make the additional work at the loading bench all worthwhile.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nicholasjohn, post: 2320645, member: 109113"] There's only one way to find your maximum tolerance level for gun-related monkeying around. The 270 Weatherby is a great cartridge, but if it's too much fussing around, the old 270 is still a winner. It seems that the difference in performance wasn't worth the hassle for you. I found out the same thing with the 30-06 Ackley years ago. It was a great performer, but I got it right about the time they came out with the higher performance ammunition for the regular '06, negating the performance advantage. I was doing all the fire-forming and load development to get the same velocities I could get right out of the box with Federal Hi-Energy ammunition. Well, they don't make that anymore, and I wasn't smart enough to have bought a case of it years ago. The Hornady Superformance ammo generates the same high velocity, but my old rifle doesn't group well with it. I still have the Ackley, and I'll probably be cooking up a new load for it with one of the newer powders. It seemed at the time like my Improved rifle, with all the associated monkeying around, was rendered obsolete by this new ammo, but now I'm seeing that I may have had it built before its time. When powder becomes more available, I'll find out what this rifle will do to make the additional work at the loading bench all worthwhile. [/QUOTE]
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