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Is anyone shooting a 270?
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<blockquote data-quote="Raudy707" data-source="post: 1574484" data-attributes="member: 105681"><p>I've had a few friends have the same thing happen with that ELD-M bullet especially at longer ranges where the impact velocity was low. Very little expansion and the bullet yawing off line severely. I went away from them and starting using the 168 ABLR. They are soft at close range so I found a really nice accuracy node out of my 7 mag just under 2900 fps. This keeps impact velocity down, so I'm hoping to avoid the exploding at close range situation, but I haven't shot an animal under 200 yards with them so the jury is still out. People were jumping on me pretty hard about this "slow" load but I have my reasons behind it. What I find funny is people call it slow and you need to pump up those velocities, yet everyone is gaga over a 6.5 PRC shooting a 147 grain bullet at a "slow" 2900 fps?!?! I can get 3100 fps out of my 270 wsm with the 170 eol and reloder 26, but it's not as accurate as my Retumbo load. So guess which one I chose? I will second your findings on the 170 EOL as working really well. We lawn-chaired half a dozen elk between my friends and I from 150-585 yds and it worked perfectly. All one shot kills.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raudy707, post: 1574484, member: 105681"] I've had a few friends have the same thing happen with that ELD-M bullet especially at longer ranges where the impact velocity was low. Very little expansion and the bullet yawing off line severely. I went away from them and starting using the 168 ABLR. They are soft at close range so I found a really nice accuracy node out of my 7 mag just under 2900 fps. This keeps impact velocity down, so I'm hoping to avoid the exploding at close range situation, but I haven't shot an animal under 200 yards with them so the jury is still out. People were jumping on me pretty hard about this "slow" load but I have my reasons behind it. What I find funny is people call it slow and you need to pump up those velocities, yet everyone is gaga over a 6.5 PRC shooting a 147 grain bullet at a "slow" 2900 fps?!?! I can get 3100 fps out of my 270 wsm with the 170 eol and reloder 26, but it's not as accurate as my Retumbo load. So guess which one I chose? I will second your findings on the 170 EOL as working really well. We lawn-chaired half a dozen elk between my friends and I from 150-585 yds and it worked perfectly. All one shot kills. [/QUOTE]
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