Description
Ammo Inc 270 Win 140gr Soft Point is the Hunt SP line loaded with a 140 grain Hornady InterLock boat tail soft point at a listed 3,030 feet per second, twenty rounds to the box on reloadable brass. Part number 270W140SPA20. It is the heavier, more conventional half of the 270 hunting equation.
Heavier Bullet, Slower Opening, Different Job
The bullet in Ammo Inc 270 Win 140gr Soft Point is a plain cup and core design with a mechanical ring inside the jacket to keep the core and jacket together. No polymer tip, no bonding, nothing clever. What it does is open in a controlled way and keep enough weight to drive deep, which is exactly what you want when the shot is close or the animal is quartering.
Compare it against the lighter tipped option and the difference is easy to state. A 130 grain polymer tipped bullet at higher speed shoots flatter and expands faster, which is excellent across a bean field and hard on meat at twenty yards. Ammo Inc 270 Win 140gr Soft Point trades a little trajectory for a heavier, slower opening bullet, and in thick cover that is the better trade. Our 130 grain SST from the same maker is the flatter option if your shots are long.
The boat tail helps at distance without changing how the bullet behaves on impact. It raises the ballistic coefficient a little, which shows up past 300 yards and essentially nowhere closer than that.
Ammo Inc 270 Win 140gr Soft Point Specifications
A word about the published velocity of Ammo Inc 270 Win 140gr Soft Point. Ammo Inc prints 3,030 fps on the box for this load, which is faster than most 140 grain 270 factory ammunition, where 2,940 fps is the more common figure. It is not an outrageous claim, but it is at the quick end and it comes from a long test barrel. Chronograph it in your rifle before you trust a drop chart built on it.
Distributor listings for this product are also unreliable. One major catalogue lists the same UPC as 150 grain and as a 308 Winchester. It is a 270 Winchester with a 140 grain bullet, which is what the box itself says. We have listed it accordingly.
The brass under Ammo Inc 270 Win 140gr Soft Point is Ammo Inc production with boxer primers and it reloads normally, which matters in a cartridge as commonly handloaded as the 270.
- Cartridge: 270 Winchester
- Bullet: 140 grain Hornady InterLock boat tail soft point
- Muzzle velocity: 3,030 fps as printed on the box
- Case: Ammo Inc brass, boxer primed, reloadable
- Product line: Ammo Inc Hunt SP
- Manufacturer part number: 270W140SPA20
- UPC: 818778024636
- Packaging: 20 rounds per box, 10 boxes per case
- Suggested use: deer and similar big game
Choosing Between 130 and 140 Grains in a 270
Match Ammo Inc 270 Win 140gr Soft Point to the country you hunt. Open ground and long shots favour the lighter, faster, tipped bullet. Woods, thick brush, short shots and the possibility of a quartering angle favour the heavier conventional soft point. Neither is universally correct and both kill deer well inside their lane.
Confirm zero every season with the load you will actually hunt. A 140 grain bullet does not print where a 130 grain bullet does, and switching between them without checking is one of the more common ways people miss. Three rounds on paper settles it.
Recoil is mild either way. The 270 Winchester is famous for being a lot of cartridge without a lot of punishment, which is why it remains a first rifle for so many hunters. That also means there is no excuse for not practising with it. Our A-Zoom 270 Winchester snap caps cover the dry fire side through the off season.
Keep the brass from Ammo Inc 270 Win 140gr Soft Point sorted and separated. An ammo box for the 270 and 30-06 case family keeps fired cases apart from loaded rounds, which stops the mistake where somebody chambers an empty case in the field.
If you hunt away from Pennsylvania, check the local rules. A few states set minimum calibre or bullet weight for deer and a handful restrict semi-automatic rifles for big game. A 270 with a 140 grain soft point clears essentially all of them, but confirm before you travel.
Ammo Inc 270 Win 140gr Soft Point suits the hunter who wants a proven Hornady bullet in the heavier 270 weight, at a price that does not discourage practice. It is the sensible woods and mixed country load, and the brass is worth keeping. Ships from our licensed inventory in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, with adult signature required on delivery.
A note on availability. Ammo Inc runs production in batches and the hunting calibres thin out on shelves through September and October. If a lot groups well in your rifle, buy enough of it for sighting in and the season together, because the next run may be months out and may not shoot identically.
Stored somewhere cool and dry, centrefire rifle ammunition keeps for decades. A closed container in a closet beats a shelf in an uninsulated garage.
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