270 E-Tip?

[wisconsinteacher]

Hey guys, I am looking for some info on the 270 130 gr ETip. I am wondering if it would be worth messing with in the 270 Win or should I stick with the BT/AccuBond/PT for deer/antelope rounds? I am always interested in different things and wonder if I would be wasting my time or not.

 

[JD338]

The E-Tip is a great bullet and penetrates into tomorrow. More bullet than you would need for deer and antelope but why not. Find a load and you will be all set should you ever decide to hunt in CA.

JD338

 

[DrMike]

It is my "go to" bullet in the 270 WSM. I don't run my loads "hot," so I suspect that I'm not much ahead of your 270 Win in velocity. Works marvellously on moose, elk, whitetail.

 

[6mm Remington]

I've sure been impressed with the 90gr. E-tip in my son's 6mm Remington and how it has performed in the water jug tests also! If you find a load your rifle shoots well, you could hunt most anything with that .270. They are great bullets!

 

[hubcap]

The E-TIP has several things going for it that look good to me. The BC is the highest of any nosler 130 grain bullet. The bullet is designed to open up on the front end. Retained weight at 95 percent is certainly attractive. I cannot see the bullet as a waste of time at all.

 

[HOGWILD338-378]

I agree 100% with above post and it shoots a group of different powders at min load but that is what Nosler suggest is start at min loads with all e-tips? Just depends if your rifle will like it but I have only heard good things about them?

 

[6mm Remington]

Here are bullets all out of a 6mm Remington at 400 yards. They all performed very well, opened up nicely, and retained weight just as I thought they might.



I don't recall what the expanded diameters on them were, but you can see in the picture that the E-tip opened up on the frontal diameter almost as much as the AccuBond and the Partition.



E-tips and Partitions at I think 100 - 200 - 300 (no recovered Partition) - and 400 yards You can see that the 100 yard Partition expansion is about the same as the 400 yard E-tip expansion, so I'd say it did just fine at 400 yards.





Real world E-tip performance. ( I know you all are probably tired of this picture.) My son's first elk with a 6mm Remington - one shot at 350 yards. Hit her tight behind her right shoulder and she was angled slightly. The 90 gr. E-tip exited our her left shoulder as seen at the center of her shoulder. She only went 20-25 yards and tipped over. No better test than the real thing!! :grin:

 

[HOGWILD338-378]

I have never seen this picture but glad ya posted as it's nice to see young men doing this vs playing video games and doing stuff they should not be doing! Priceless picture and now the work begins :mrgreen: just turn her back end down hill and sharpen the blades and roll up the sleeves! Etip surprised me as in how long the tail end was but it opened up nicely ! Cow did not like it very much !

 

[hubcap]

I,m impressed by the 6mm. The pics pretty much tell the story. Looks like the peel back style expansion would do the job on any game.

 

[DrMike]

Of course, David, those are convincing photos. Those E-Tips did the job.

 

[6mm Remington]

Mike you can certainly state how well the E-tips work as I recall you hunting moose and elk with E-tips in various rifles of yours and how well they have worked for you. They sure seem to make a smaller rifle/caliber perform like it's on steroids!

 

[DrMike]

Mike you can certainly state how well the E-tips work as I recall you hunting moose and elk with E-tips in various rifles of yours and how well they have worked for you. They sure seem to make a smaller rifle/caliber perform like it's on steroids!

Bingo! They have tackled some very large game and succeeded for me.