For the first time in nearly 10 years I'll be hunting with factory ammunition. I just moved to a new place in April of this year and an 1890's farm house in the Southeastern plains of Colorado needs a lot of attention. I've been unable to set up an area to reload as keeping the wife happy with around the home fix it up projects and keeping the boss at work pleased has left little time to set up my reloading room.
So my 4th season deer hunt is fast approaching and I've decided to just not worry about rushing to set up my reloading bench and just got shoot more to practice for deer season. I decided to pack my M70 EW in .270 Win on this years hunt. The rifle weighs in at a nice to pack around 7 lbs 13 oz with 5 rounds in the magazine and nylon speed sling.
I'll be honest I chose the Federal Blue Box 130 grain ammunition because it's usually shown decent accuracy when I help sight in a new rifle for buddies who don't reload. So I went to the local Big R store and picked up 100 rounds of the same lot for around $100 plus tax. Price was also a deciding factor as I wasn't wanting to buy 100 rounds of something more expensive.
1st group was off of sand bags.
2nd group is off of a Harris 6-9" swivel bi-pod.
3rd group is just adding the two and throwing out the clean bore shot. I'm going to go back and see if it'll repeat this group on Friday and hopefully run it across my chronograph. I'm hoping I'll be in the neighborhood of 3000 fps.
If the ammunition is doing well, I'll start practicing hard from field positions out to 300 yards. There is a good chance I'll shoot my largest deer ever this year. Have a buddy that's scouted located me some deer in the 175+ class in my unit and is going to help me get on them.
So my 4th season deer hunt is fast approaching and I've decided to just not worry about rushing to set up my reloading bench and just got shoot more to practice for deer season. I decided to pack my M70 EW in .270 Win on this years hunt. The rifle weighs in at a nice to pack around 7 lbs 13 oz with 5 rounds in the magazine and nylon speed sling.
I'll be honest I chose the Federal Blue Box 130 grain ammunition because it's usually shown decent accuracy when I help sight in a new rifle for buddies who don't reload. So I went to the local Big R store and picked up 100 rounds of the same lot for around $100 plus tax. Price was also a deciding factor as I wasn't wanting to buy 100 rounds of something more expensive.
1st group was off of sand bags.
2nd group is off of a Harris 6-9" swivel bi-pod.
3rd group is just adding the two and throwing out the clean bore shot. I'm going to go back and see if it'll repeat this group on Friday and hopefully run it across my chronograph. I'm hoping I'll be in the neighborhood of 3000 fps.
If the ammunition is doing well, I'll start practicing hard from field positions out to 300 yards. There is a good chance I'll shoot my largest deer ever this year. Have a buddy that's scouted located me some deer in the 175+ class in my unit and is going to help me get on them.