May 30, 2011, 04:13 PM | #51 |
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Lately I've been seeing an awful lot of the super-duper-mushroom-magnum rifles for sale CHEAP at the gunshows.
To be honest, the ballistics aren't much different, and I squeeze my .270 brass out of mil-surp .30-06 cases for 10 - 15 cents a case. My old Remington 721 will hold 1 inch groups at 200 yards with hand-loads. I can see the (to me SLIGHT) advantage of the shorter action, but the WSM cartridges are just so damned ugly. You'd have never caught Hemingway pulling one of those things out of his cartridge pouch. :barf: KR |
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Any deer or black bear would not have a clue whether the .277 bullet that killed it was launched by a .270 WIN or a .270 WSM. If you don't handload, your wallet will be the only one to notice. If you do handload, then the ballistic difference between the two is even smaller...... and you are still paying through the nose for brass, so long as they keep making it...... The question still stands: Anybody know how to form this brass out of a more commonly available case? Quote:
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The 270 WSM launches the same bullets about 200 fps faster than a 270 Win. That's enough of a difference to fit definition of "It may not be important to you, it may not be worth the money to you, but it does exist." That’s only 50fps less than difference between the 30-06 and the 300 Win Mag. Do you plan to accuse anyone who shoots a 300 Win Mag of having a "severe case of PII (Preoccupation w/ Inconsequential Increments)"? A more apt comparison would really be short action cartridge to short action cartridge. Comparing a 308 to a 300 WSM, the WSM gets about 400 fps more. Is that a Sufficiently Consequential Increment? Even though you don't own one, the 270 and 300 WSMs are popular cartridges and brass isn't going to disappear anytime soon. Quote:
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If you were able to find a good deal on 7mm, .300 or .325 WSM brass then you could form from that. IIRC the .270 WSM shoulder is a little farther forward so you would be fireforming all the brass. So I'd probably use the .300 or .325 case so I could create a better false shoulder for head space. You might have to turn the necks as well going down from these cases.
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