New Rem 700 CDL Stainless Fluted, 270 Win.

Thanks AllenJ.

Yean, the rifle keeps following me around the house, whining to go shooting.

We're due for some warmer temps in the next week, so I'll load up some batches of ammo with varied seating depth and maybe will find the sweet spot.

I really like 90 grain Sierras for range use and varmints out to about 200 yards. Velocity is only about 3,050 for the 48.0 grains of IMR 4895 and CCI standard primers. It's the lowest recommended load in the Lyman manual, one that I used for turkey/running deer shoots and it's quite accurate in my other rifle. The nicest thing is that, in that other 700, it shoots to the same POI as my hunting loads.
 
What parts o Maine you at Picher? I live on Mt Desert; we keep getting pounded over and over by those coastal storms. I was hiking in the woods a couple days ago (actually within Acadia National Park and using frozen marshes/ponds as trails) and someone opened fire very nearby. I know they weren't target shooting nor is anything in season.
 
Stagpanther: I'm in the Waterville/Augusta area, so it wasn't me who fired. LOL

Actually, there are lots of critters in season, rabbits, crows, red squirrels, porquepine, coyotes, beaver and maybe even bobcat (don't have my book in front of me). Of course, that doesn't mean that the shooter was legally hunting.
 
Old Rem 700 270 Win

Inherited with my father's passing in 1995 :( Still shoots like a youngster...
Sorry I couldn't get the details a little larger, still learning this photo posting :cool:
 

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Stagpanther: I'm in the Waterville/Augusta area, so it wasn't me who fired. LOL

Actually, there are lots of critters in season, rabbits, crows, red squirrels, porquepine, coyotes, beaver and maybe even bobcat (don't have my book in front of me). Of course, that doesn't mean that the shooter was legally hunting.
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Forgot about those--plus on the island they're a bit funny about hunting in general. I hunted down in your neck of the woods last fall a couple of times during the expanded archery season. I'll be back this fall.
 
stagpanther: Thanks for the warning. LOL

Actually, we're in a pretty high-population area for deer, but this winter and other recent ones may have taken their toll on them. Hope for the best.
 
Took my first walk with the CDL .270 yesterday. Strapped the snowshoes on and walked about a mile or so to the blueberry fields.

I'd placed a strip of electrical tape over the muzzle to prevent problems if it slipped off my shoulder and hit the snow. My carry strap is a light nylon one with a rubberized shoulder pad. I carry the rifle muzzle-down, off my left shoulder.

There's about 2 feet of soft snow in the woods and about an inch of crusty snow on top. For the most part, I walked on the snowmobile tracks. My snowshoes sank about 3 inches when I left the trail.

I found where a grouse had slept beneath the snow, leaving imprints of it's wings on each side of the depression as it extricated itself. Pretty cool.

My steel turkey target in the blueberry field either fell over from the wind, or the snow drifted over it, so it was nowhere to be seen. I didn't bother to shoot at anything else along the way, but really liked the carry weight (7 3/4 lbs. with scope).

(I'd managed to sight-in the rifle well on Wednesday using a target-varmint load of 90 grain Sierra HPs and a 48.5 grains of Varget. It was windy, with a lot of mirage that day, but managed to shoot a 1" group at 100 yards.)
 
Blueberrys should be great this next summer! How much precipitation have you had in Maine since Jan 1? Here in Colorado we have had some mountain snows that helped the snow pack out. Today it got up to 56 or so and felt like spring. We live north of Denver about 60 miles just east of the mountains.
 
This part of Maine has had 6" of rain equivalent since Jan 1, but all in the form of snow. There's about 30" of snow in the woods right now. Extreme Northern Maine has seen less snow and there's less than a foot in places. The mountains have had excellent skiing all winter, and Central Maine snowmobiling is the best now than it's been for many years.

Maine is expecting a great apple crop this year, due to snow covering tree roots.

Sap is just starting to run this week. It's a bit late, and due to the amount of snow, it's difficult for workers to get around to tap trees and retrieve maple sap. If warm temps come soon, the syrup will be scarce, but the weather folks are expecting it to be pretty cool for the rest of March.

As usual, time will tell.

JP
 
coastal Maine here--we still have a tremendous amount of snow on the ground--in fact it snowed this morning. lol. I think for the winter season we've had over 10 ft so far--and it doesn't look like it's over yet. My biggest worry is that the deer herd is going to be very seriously diminished--I hope not.

Maine really has only two seasons; winter and the 4th of July. ; )
 
stagpanther

I agree with your assessment of the impact on the deer population in Southern Maine. The coast has really been hit harder than we have in Central ME.

I haven't seen any deer tracks around the farm in the past month or so, and hope they're doing okay in the deer yards. We've knocked down boughs for them to eat, but haven't seen evidence of them visiting.
 
Finally found a load and got half-decent conditions to shoot the Rem 700 CDL SS FL, .270 Win. :) (See attached picture.)

It still didn't like the 90 grain Sierra HPs, but absolutely loved some Nosler 130 BTs, as shown by the 4/10" three-shot group and the 2/10" two-shot group, after approximately adjusting the scope. That's the best with the new rifle and I am absolutely crazy about her.

Some old 130 grain Hornady Spire Point hunting bullets found in an old bargain shack shot pretty well. They were quite oxidized, so I cleaned them up with 0000 steel wool before loading. They still shot pretty well.

It was kind of chilly and my hands were freezing, so I didn't even shoot the .223 700 LV I brought along, nor did I shoot other loads for the .270.

JP
 

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Well done--it will only get better I'm sure. My shooting range is still multiple feet of snow/ice/mud so no go for me. lol. Acadia National Park has announced it may not fully open until May.
 
I should have brought a camera to the range with me. The State Police shot there for three days this week, tramping down the snow pretty well, making it easy to walk around without snowshoes, but a bit slippery.
 
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