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270 win velocity question?
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<blockquote data-quote="alcesgigas" data-source="post: 1694019" data-attributes="member: 34925"><p>I haven't yet read the responses to my earlier post; I can only imagine! So, here's the rest of the story:</p><p></p><p>Huge ES, but accurate for a sporter hovering around a MOA and it's the only load that equals the wife's Pre-War M70 270 in accuracy. Lesser loads tighten the ES, but present larger groups and this I've tried many times through the years.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Model 70 #514xx holds--still--inch groups using H4831 and H4831SC. It does the same with 59 GN of RL22. It also duplicates the group spread when lighter loads are used. Rifles came and went and none measured up to this 1942 Model 70 (made from 1941 parts). However, my conscience bothered me using my deceased father-in-law's favorite rifle that he left for his daughter. So in 1994 I had a ready and willing excuse to buy one of the (then) new "Classic" M70s, but like the ones before it had to equal the accuracy of the old. It didn't. Until well along in the search for the load that just might.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Barnes First Edition showed RL22's max at 61 grains, but working up was a descent into sloppy... However, in for a penny in for a pound, I went the distance and there at the max load came the equal--using 150 Noslers that I was "using up." I used 140 GN Barnes TSX as a standard hunting bullet in the old timer so this newbie had to check out with those. It did. And, 25 years later--and nearly 600 rounds--it still delivering lethality. A few years ago I met a fella living in Fairbanks who probably likes to shoot as I do. I now had (have) a witness who's shot this rifle. He's also remarked on its abundance of recoil--and its accuracy. Bullets and barrel are, like my ELR rifle, processed with hBN which is the only "cleaning" fluid I use in every barrel. I get on average 14 firings per brass (Federal & Winchester) before signs of instability present. In 2013, with another friend present, I had two pierced/blown primers which the M70 handled nicely--gasses vented down through the magazine. Both of those brass were on their 18th firing. It's been the demise of double digit bucks, bears, and bulls, shows little wear--bolt is super smooth though--in spite of some extremes, like total submergence and remaining in my trap sled down to -70 while I toasted me bones very close to the wood stove.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Its been a great rifle and remains so. You're right; I've been wanting to tell this experience for a very long time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alcesgigas, post: 1694019, member: 34925"] I haven't yet read the responses to my earlier post; I can only imagine! So, here's the rest of the story: Huge ES, but accurate for a sporter hovering around a MOA and it’s the only load that equals the wife’s Pre-War M70 270 in accuracy. Lesser loads tighten the ES, but present larger groups and this I’ve tried many times through the years. Model 70 #514xx holds--still--inch groups using H4831 and H4831SC. It does the same with 59 GN of RL22. It also duplicates the group spread when lighter loads are used. Rifles came and went and none measured up to this 1942 Model 70 (made from 1941 parts). However, my conscience bothered me using my deceased father-in-law’s favorite rifle that he left for his daughter. So in 1994 I had a ready and willing excuse to buy one of the (then) new “Classic” M70s, but like the ones before it had to equal the accuracy of the old. It didn’t. Until well along in the search for the load that just might. Barnes First Edition showed RL22’s max at 61 grains, but working up was a descent into sloppy... However, in for a penny in for a pound, I went the distance and there at the max load came the equal--using 150 Noslers that I was “using up.” I used 140 GN Barnes TSX as a standard hunting bullet in the old timer so this newbie had to check out with those. It did. And, 25 years later--and nearly 600 rounds--it still delivering lethality. A few years ago I met a fella living in Fairbanks who probably likes to shoot as I do. I now had (have) a witness who’s shot this rifle. He’s also remarked on its abundance of recoil--and its accuracy. Bullets and barrel are, like my ELR rifle, processed with hBN which is the only “cleaning” fluid I use in every barrel. I get on average 14 firings per brass (Federal & Winchester) before signs of instability present. In 2013, with another friend present, I had two pierced/blown primers which the M70 handled nicely--gasses vented down through the magazine. Both of those brass were on their 18th firing. It’s been the demise of double digit bucks, bears, and bulls, shows little wear--bolt is super smooth though--in spite of some extremes, like total submergence and remaining in my trap sled down to -70 while I toasted me bones very close to the wood stove. Its been a great rifle and remains so. You’re right; I’ve been wanting to tell this experience for a very long time. [/QUOTE]
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