270 Bullet selection

[AKaviator]

The bullet that I recovered from my wife's moose started out as a 7mm 140 grain Accubond. At 275 yards, after going through the left shoulder, both lungs and stopping on the center of a right side rib, it was 89 grains and had expanded, non-concentric to .731" at max and .502 average.
It turned the lungs into soup, which is where the rest of the bullet must have been. That was a lot to ask of a 7mm-08 and it did it's job very well, in my opinion. The bull was down in less than 10 yards.

 

[Slugz]

Great data AK. nice to hear someone else pulls them out to check em post shot for performance. Roughly 65% weight retention is what we were seeing also in our elk shots. My wife shoots the same caliber. I get a lot of odd looks/comments with that caliber until they see the post hunt pictures. Thanks for the great info.

 

[mcseal2]

The 140gr accubonds performed very well for me from a 270WSM I used to own also, although most shots were long enough the velocity had slowed a lot. A friend and I were muley hunting in Wyoming and had rounds start coming over our heads at a young 4x4 buck down the mountain from us. The guy was shooting at ridiculous range. Here is an entry from my hunting journal from that trip:

Day 3. Another hunter shot from above us and hit a decent 4x4 that I finished with a prone shot at 403yds. He emptied his rifle and was digging in his pack for more ammo while the deer was getting ready to drop off into a canyon so I finished it. No sense letting it disappear and suffer. He broke it’s back leg about 6” above the hoof. When I dropped it he was very happy. Later that day they were dragging the deer up the mountain when we walked out so we showed them how to quarter it and we helped them pack it out. They had a cold beer for us at the trail head. They would have never got it out without us, they never thought of quartering it. No shooter bucks spotted. We glassed from the rock I shot my first elk from both times all young deer.

Anyway, my bullet that finished the buck hit quartering hard, right in front of the hip and ended up in the neck under the skin. It penetrated a lot of buck. My buck I shot later that trip I hit twice at 313 and 375yds, both exited through the lungs. The first one did the job but he didn't drop so I hit him again before he fell.

 

[PlainsHunter]

I've shot antelope with the 130 Gr Partitions, factory loads from Federal Premium- they were broadside shots one hitting part of the shoulder and one behind the shoulder through both lungs and both left nickel sized exit holes, nothing overly dramatic as far as expansion is concerned but I know the bullet isn't designed to have violent expansion so I was happy. I've shot deer with 140GR partitions out of my 7MM Rem mag and have only found one. I shot it in the chest while facing me at about 100 yards and found the bullet lodged in the deer's hindquarter next to the bone. I've had good luck with the Partitions but never tied Barnes or Accubond