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Seating depth in .270
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<blockquote data-quote="alcesgigas" data-source="post: 974280" data-attributes="member: 34925"><p>As a teenager in the late '50s I was "O'Connorized;" there just wasn't any reason for "more" gun for the game I planned to hunt in North America. He reasoned that if it were dead by 270 how much deader would it be if shot with a (then all the craze) belted magnum? Got my first M70 in '66 and had at least one ever since; the first was a 270 and I suspect the last will be one of the 270's I'm shooting today. The largest game I shot--and still do--is/was moose. Of them I claimed 13 with the 270; it's my standard everyday carry gun. I suppose it's safe to say that the 270 owned me since adolescence.</p><p></p><p>I handload and have since the late sixties. When Barnes came out with their fist handloading text I noted some receipes unknown to me. One was RL22 and in that first Barnes loadbook the max load for the 140 grain (now TSX) was 61gr. I worked up as always from the lighest to that level. It was the most accurate load for that rifle, but bolt lift was a tiny bit stiff; I backed off, backed off some more and to this day i shoot 59gr of RL22 in that 1942 (made from pre-war parts prior to 100% military commitment) M70. If I remember right it averaged 3027fps as checked on a friends 35P. I ate lots of venison and some bear stew as well.</p><p></p><p>In '92 I picked up my M70 dream rifle; a stainless classic sporter in 270. I'd keep it if it could match or better the old boy. It wouldn't using the H4831 I had at the time. So I moved into RL22 and remembering that max load and keeping my brass separated, worked up to that max. What a racket! What recoil! But, what groups--and only with the 61gr of RL22. Since then the old boy keeps on with those consistent sub-MOA groups and the "young upstart" attempts to better the former.</p><p></p><p>I tried other calibers, rifles, and excuses to get them. However, it wasn't until '08 that I shot anything labelled big game with any other caliber. That was a griz in a cabin. Still, it was a M70--in 375 H&H. When<em> I know </em>I'm more than likely stepping into a hornet's nest wherein death must happen quickly or it could be me--I'll opt for something bigger than a 270. Or when the moose is over 400 yards--then I use the Edge, but alas, it too has a M70 action.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alcesgigas, post: 974280, member: 34925"] As a teenager in the late '50s I was "O'Connorized;" there just wasn't any reason for "more" gun for the game I planned to hunt in North America. He reasoned that if it were dead by 270 how much deader would it be if shot with a (then all the craze) belted magnum? Got my first M70 in '66 and had at least one ever since; the first was a 270 and I suspect the last will be one of the 270's I'm shooting today. The largest game I shot--and still do--is/was moose. Of them I claimed 13 with the 270; it's my standard everyday carry gun. I suppose it's safe to say that the 270 owned me since adolescence. I handload and have since the late sixties. When Barnes came out with their fist handloading text I noted some receipes unknown to me. One was RL22 and in that first Barnes loadbook the max load for the 140 grain (now TSX) was 61gr. I worked up as always from the lighest to that level. It was the most accurate load for that rifle, but bolt lift was a tiny bit stiff; I backed off, backed off some more and to this day i shoot 59gr of RL22 in that 1942 (made from pre-war parts prior to 100% military commitment) M70. If I remember right it averaged 3027fps as checked on a friends 35P. I ate lots of venison and some bear stew as well. In '92 I picked up my M70 dream rifle; a stainless classic sporter in 270. I'd keep it if it could match or better the old boy. It wouldn't using the H4831 I had at the time. So I moved into RL22 and remembering that max load and keeping my brass separated, worked up to that max. What a racket! What recoil! But, what groups--and only with the 61gr of RL22. Since then the old boy keeps on with those consistent sub-MOA groups and the "young upstart" attempts to better the former. I tried other calibers, rifles, and excuses to get them. However, it wasn't until '08 that I shot anything labelled big game with any other caliber. That was a griz in a cabin. Still, it was a M70--in 375 H&H. When[I] I know [/I]I'm more than likely stepping into a hornet's nest wherein death must happen quickly or it could be me--I'll opt for something bigger than a 270. Or when the moose is over 400 yards--then I use the Edge, but alas, it too has a M70 action. [/QUOTE]
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