Thread: 270 shooters

@Boar Freak You will not go wrong with a 270 for our hunting here,when l started guiding in the Top End of Oz & Africa l would take 2 Pelican cases with my 270& 06 & 300Wby Mag & 458Mag ,so if my missus, (who like any married bloke knows l would never hazard a guess to her weight ,but she is no Rugby player),wanted to hunt she would use the Sako 75 Finnlight in 270 unsuppressed. She has hunted with it around the world & she came to love it that much she refused to let me sell it when l got offered a deal on a 270WSM l could not refuse & she has used it now for over 2 Decades now ,taking 100's of game with it, with never any need for heavy for caliber bullets that increase recoil in any caliber .

We have just finished a few days away hunting & Jet Boating & she uses the 270 unsuppressed on our Jet Boat hunts all the time, due to cutting down length & us wearing ear protection any way,in the last few days she has taken Deer,Pigs & Goats with it & mostly off hand unsupported with absolutely no problems & out to a lazed 320mtrs .

The proven hunting loads l have come to settle on for the Finnlight for decades now are - For light game like Goats ,Pigs , Fallow &Chammy is the Hornady 110gn Interlock doing just on 3250fps,my KISS all round load for everything that walks in Kiwi land is the 130gn Barnes TSX doing just over 3050 fps which is devastating in the 270 & she has taken Reds & Tahr out to 450mtrs with .That KISS load is point & shoot out to over 300mtrs.Those loads are mild in the Finnlight as l had to allow for Tropical heat & the rifle being carried in Dash racks in the jeeps in full sun.

I have not brought factory ammo for years but any in those bullet weights doing around that speed will do everything you need here , with easily handled recoil .

Here is the Missus a few days ago with a Velvity Red she dropped off hand with her unsuppressed 270 Finnlight at 145 mtrs .You can see why l am not guessing her weight



And winning a bottle of wine off a mate pointing out the 270 had hit exactly where she called it at 235mtrs at last light .