.270 as an elk round

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My son will be shooting a .270 this fall and this will be his first season elk hunting. What would you recommend for an elk hunting bullet? I don’t reload, so I need to find some factory ammo. I currently have some Federal 130gr fusions, but I’m thinking He might need some thing in 150gr. and maybe a different bullet than the fusions.
 
Not sure how you feel about some of the monos, if the rifle likes 130 you might hunt down some of the hornady cx or Barnes ttsx’s.

Partitions/accubonds are always a good place to start, federal premium with their trophy bonded tips have been fairly easy to find lately too
 
Southern Elk said:
My son will be shooting a .270 this fall and this will be his first season elk hunting. What would you recommend for an elk hunting bullet? I don’t reload, so I need to find some factory ammo. I currently have some Federal 130gr fusions, but I’m thinking He might need some thing in 150gr. and maybe a different bullet than the fusions.
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Here ya go...this will kill everything in the lower 48 and most of AK and Africa

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It's probably going to boil down to what factory ammo you can find, and then what the gun shoots. I'd be confident with any 140-150gr hunting bullet that shoots well in the gun. I've used bonded bullets and standard cup and jacket bullets to take elk with a 270, so I don't put as much thought into bullet construction as I do accuracy. So grab what you can and shoot some groups.
 
Gr8bawana said:
My son took his bull using Federal Premium ammo with 150 Nosler Partitions. I can assure you that 1000's of elk get killed every year using plain old dinosaur Core-Lokt ammo in 130 grain.
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270 win is a awesome elk hunting round, 130-150 IMO any federal round , premium or classic is bueno! If folks shoot elk with the hornday ELD that’s proof that even cheap cupcore will work on elk
not rocket science
 
I shoot elk with a 150 gr, buddy shoots them with a 130 gr. I think he has killed more, but I don’t know whose got a better avg. a good shot with any .270 round will kill an elk. Depending on your kid’s size and flinchyness, I’d go 130
 
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