.270 Winchester ballistics chart
The .270 Winchester trajectory with a 130-grain hunting bullet: drop, wind drift and retained velocity from a 200-yard zero to 700 yards.
What is the .270 Winchester?
The .270 Winchester has been a benchmark open-country big-game cartridge for a century. A 130-grain bullet at just over 3,000 fps shoots flat enough that a 200-yard zero keeps a hunter inside a few inches of point of aim to beyond 300 yards with no holdover.
Older factory twists of 1:10 stabilise conventional hunting bullets well but not the longest low-drag match projectiles, so the .270 is best thought of as a flat-shooting field cartridge rather than a modern ELR chambering.
Typical uses: Deer, sheep, pronghorn and elk hunting in open country to moderate ranges.
Sample load
The trajectory below is calculated for this representative factory load in a standard ICAO atmosphere. The bullet is an entry from the app’s bullet library, so the calculator opens with it already selected. Your rifle will differ — enter your own chronographed velocity and verified BC in the calculator for numbers you can dial.
- Bullet
- Hornady 130 gr SST
- Muzzle velocity
- 3,060 fps
- Ballistic coefficient
- 0.223 (G7)
- Zero
- 200 yd
.270 Winchester key figures
- Muzzle energy
- 2,704 ft⋅lb
- Supersonic to
- About 1,110 yd
- Point-blank range, 6 in zone
- 300 yd (256 yd zero)
- Point-blank range, 3 in zone
- 233 yd (200 yd zero)
- Drop at 300 yd, 100 yd zero
- 10.6 in
Point-blank range is how far you can hold dead on and still hit a target zone of that height, using the zero shown. Work it out for your own load with the maximum point-blank range calculator , or see how the .270 Winchester stacks up in the cartridge comparison chart .
.270 Winchester trajectory table
| Range (yd) | Velocity (fps) | Energy (ft⋅lb) | Drop (in) | Elevation (MIL) | Elevation (MOA) | Wind 10 mph (MIL) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | 2,843 | 2,334 | 1.4 | -0.4 | -1.3 | 0.2 |
| 200 | 2,634 | 2,003 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| 300 | 2,433 | 1,710 | -6.4 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 0.6 |
| 400 | 2,242 | 1,451 | -18.7 | 1.3 | 4.5 | 0.9 |
| 500 | 2,059 | 1,224 | -38.0 | 2.1 | 7.3 | 1.1 |
| 600 | 1,885 | 1,026 | -65.4 | 3.1 | 10.4 | 1.4 |
| 700 | 1,718 | 853 | -102.7 | 4.2 | 14.0 | 1.8 |
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