Bullet recommendation?

[std7mag]

Excellent choice!
Best of luck!

 

[Sure Shot Mc Gee]

I must be missing something as I can't reach that number (3600) with a 257Wby and feel safe pulling the trigger.

Check out the Weatherby 100 gr and see the published velocity achieved with IMR.

"Hello to my little friend >270 Win. 130 gr and its 3200 fps air speed."
That's a "no go" with me."

As I found to be. Everybody reloads to their comfort level. Some are happy matching published Loadings barely above Minimum.
Some home reloaders purposely develop charges beyond Max to which I happen to be one of those individuals. In case you haven't heard? Many consider the: 1/4 bore 06 a > poor mans 257 Weatherby.

 

[Mobuck]

"Knock one down Mobuck"
Time is getting short. Head out is set for a month from today and I still haven't pulled my rifle out of the case since swapping scopes. Harvest time, lots of work assignments, youth deer season are all stacking up here.
Since I'll be coming off a week's local deer hunting, I'll have sorted my clothes and "stuff' at least 1/2 dozen times and I'm more certain of what I need/don't need for the trip so packing should be more streamlined.

 

[jersurf101]

I ha ve no experience in th 2506 at all but I saw a comment on the Berger VLD Hunting bullets and had to chime in. I have used Nosler partitions, barnes ttsx, Sierra GK and federal CHP ammo on medium game with great performance. 2 of 4 animals shot with 168 VLD Hunting bullets in .308 were not recovered. One was a dandy 8 point. One of my recovered animals the Berger had not expanded and "penciled" through. So in short I had problems with Bergers not expanding and will never use them again on game. YMMV.

 

[Don Fischer]

Don't hunt elk. Honestly. It cost to much. Trip_ non-resident license_ room & board_guide> if you want to be assured of taking a Elk home.

Overwhelmingly expensive! U-bet especially if you happen to harvest a one- in-a-lifetime trophy.
Little doubt in my mind bushwhacking Elk as a non-resident is near the cost of filling your freezer with Kolbe beef.

So I hunt the next best tasty eating game. (Whitetail)

OK trying to stay on point.
I'm all about speed & 200 yard accuracy. As we know speed governs energy. The more the better. Although I've shot deer with 117 & 122 gr H.Ps I actually prefer a 100 gr spire soft point for the purpose.

Than again if I felt the need to shoot the heaviest bullet weight in any caliber I'd switch up to a bigger caliber that nearly overlaps the 25-06 heavy weight bullets. Hello to my little friend >270 Win. 130 gr and its 3200 fps air speed.

Frankly speaking if I were unable to use my 270 deer hunting. Little doubt its substitute would be its little cousin the 1/4 bore 06. Its 100gr projectiles clipping along at 3600 fps so flat shooting I can make head shots all day long out too 150 with a tight sight hold on my quarry's noggin. From muzzle to 200 where ever the cross-hairs place rest-assured that is where the bullet will terminate at.

Only disappointment at that velocity its little 100 gr bullet is surely shorting my rifles barrel lifespan. No mater. I got options so to bring it back to its good shoot'in again.

All about speed and 200yd accuracy? have you tried a 150gr 270 bullet? I had a 270 years ago but never hunted with it. I liked the 140gr bullet in it. I think for the most part people have a problem as they want speed and then choose to light a bullet to get it. Might consider the 130gr bullet but drop the velocity down to maybe 2900 fps. That's still fast at 200yds, may be more accurate and certainly less recoil!

 

[Sure Shot Mc Gee]

All about speed and 200yd accuracy? have you tried a 150gr 270 bullet?

Shooting the 150 gr? That's the heaviest suggested bullet weight of all 270 suggested bullet weights~~? (So disappointing when a 270 shooter knowingly drops the velocity on his favorite rifle too accommodate the heaviest bullet weight possible. For that purpose I would switch to using my 30-06 with 150 gr. That rifle favors 150 gr weight. "A bullet weight the 270 Win doesn't."

I think for the most part people have a problem as they want speed and then choose to light a bullet to get it.

Don't know of any other way to increase velocity? As told: "The bigger a powder charge is. The better your rifles performance" Considering all those sweet spots in accuracy that you may not be aware of.

Might consider the 130gr bullet but drop the velocity down to maybe 2900 fps. That's still fast at 200yds, may be more accurate

More accurate. No sir it isn't.

3200fps is a low end threshold that many varmint hunters prefer there ammo to be at or faster for their rifles flattest trajectory and to achieved a higher energy stat.
Speculating I am: "Anything less than 3200. Equals a 30wcf's down range performance."

To be quite honest there is {not} one center-fire big game cartridge in this residence that has a velocity less than 3200 at muzzle.
"Then again load those cartridges your comfortable with >their using."

 

[Brian Pfleuger]

I’m a big fan of light and fast but I’ve loaded a fair variety of bullets weights in a fair variety of guns. 35gr .22-250 over 4,500fps, the powder charge outweighs the bullet... 139gr 7mm-08 with Trail Boss in a 15” Pro Hunter... rainbow trajectory but quite accurate at 100... and quite a few in between. .30-06, .270WSM, .243, .204Ruger, etc

I’m no expert, to be sure, but I can say one thing with reasonable certainty... neither bullet weight (presuming appropriate weight/twist) nor velocity are directly correlated with accuracy.

I see a lot of guys talking about how best accuracy is often under max load... well yeah... max load is a single data point, with perhaps 50 reasonable points (0.1gr increments) below it... in that case, the odds are about 2% that the best accuracy will be “max”. Should a reloader decide, at their own discretion and risk, to exceed that “max” load, there is every chance that they will find “most accurate” at some higher data point.

There’s nothing magical about “slower”. It’s just statistics.