A mold suggestion for 270

[Todd N.]

Cast bullets in a .270? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of shooting a .270- high speed, (relatively) long range? It's like shooting cast in a .300 RUM.

As for the guy who commented on using .243 for deer...

You, me, robinsroost, and many others here know that there is more to that story than what you are telling. I believe your friend's shot placement was not what it should have been, or he was using the wrong bullet for hunting. My wife ONLY shoots a 6mm Remington- a sped-up version of the .243 for those who don't know. She and the grandkids do the deer hunting in our household, and she has taken 1-3 deer every year with that rifle for the last 30+ years. She and that rifle have also been death to a few cow elk over the years. And no animal she has shot has ever run more than 40 yards.

[richhodg66]

Well, I'm going to mess around with the Lee mold and see where it goes.

Post the results. Don't seem to be many shooting cast in .270, even here. I think you're going to want a different mold design for deer hunting though. No reason the .270 can't do it, this is a picture of a 7mm cast bullet I dug out just under the hide of a doe I shot last year after going through about three feet of deer. There isn't that much difference in bore size, but I would opt for a heavy bullet, preferably a hollow pointed or soft nosed one.
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[Poygan]

I agree with Todd N. that the .270 has the higher velocity with jacketed boolits. OTOH, I cast for all of my rifles, with the exception of a .223 I once owned. I have not shot extensively with the .270 but it is accurate with the RCBS 250 grain boolit, using 4198. If I was still hunting whitetails, I would have no problem using this combination.

[Harter66]

I shoot a 260-120 paper patched in a 264 WM because .

My 6.5 bullets are to fat to patch for the 6.8 . The 279-124 which is ready to load at 130-132 gr from users is probably the easiest bullet I've ever shot , I get 2200 out of a 20" 5R barrel with H322 and nearly 2400 with H4198 using jacket data and good sense .

The 27-130 FP RCBS works as well but doesn't hit the numbers . My example weighed 141 gr naked .
I did find a 27-150 once but the shipping made me buy an NOE .

You might look for an under sized 7mm-168 . I have one such mould .... The nose is too small for my 7mms but it has to be too deep in the 6.8 case to go into the leade . It will size readily to .280 but the nose ......... If you're shooting a Savage it might work well .