270 Allen Magnum-Savage Convert

[WalleyeGod]

Most of this article I originally posted on LRH a couple years ago. Thought you guys might be interested here:

Like a kid waiting for Christmas morning the package arrived Saturday afternoon after being out in the "makeup" room in Montana for awhile.

My shooting partner and I had spent a year researching ideas about guns in order to meet our goal of getting into the mile long club. We chose Kirby Allen to build our gun and shipped off our Savage BVSS in 300WM to him and have it converted to a 270 AM. We chose the 270 because of our familiarity with the 300RUM and the ease of forming brass, etc.

We chose to go with a 30" Lilja fluted barrel with muzzle brake. Kirby pillar bedded the stock, accurized the receiver, installed the Holland comp recoil lug and matte finished the metal.

Here are some pics of the convert.

Pic of 200 yard target using 169.5 grain Wildcat bullets. Calculated BC of .755. 98 gr. of Hodgdon US 869 powder.

Fast forward to Today:

We are currently still working on the 1,000 yard club so our lofty mile goal still evades us. It has been fun playing with it so far at up to 1,300 yards in the prairie dog town. The wind gods haven't given us much of a window. We have pounded the mounds all around the critters but just haven't punched one out yet.

The 270 AM is made by necking down and fire forming either 300 or 7mm RUM brass.

Straight shootin',

WG

[picksbigwagon]

Gotta love gun porn.......98 gr.'s of powder? so you get about 70 rounds per pound of powder? and you shoot praire dogs with that thing?

[WalleyeGod]

picks:

Correct on both. You can't shoot alot with this gun. 3-4 shots and you should be waiting a bit for the barrel to cool. The powder is a relatively inexpensive part. About $.30 cents a shot. The custom bullets add up in a hurry along with a pretty short brass life and barrel life. With everything considered including brass life,barrel life,primer,bullet,and powder the cost per shot is just shy of $1.50. Not so bad considering what we are shooting.

You can see the issues with LR shooting on a Pd town. About the time you have the critter dialed in (Exbal Ballistic Calculator along with quite a bit of range time to know your clicks/moa) it is time to hold off shooting. Then the rascal disappears. It is soo much fun though kicking dirt in their faces at 1,300 yards. Ever so close. We feel it has been a good outing in the dog town if we can get 20-30 rounds off in the weekend. While it is cooling you just pick up the 6br and take some closer 5-600 yard shots. Shortly the wind is pushing 20 mph and you forget about shooting the AM and the "medium" range dogs and concentrate on short range dogs.

I did set up with it for deer hunting one day last year but nothing came out within a half mile. Didn't get a chance this year to set up in that spot. Hopefully next year.

Note the chronograph numbers on the target pic.

Happy shootin',

WG

[picksbigwagon]

Oh I noticed those numbers, that has got to put a thumping on ya when you trip that trigger.....

Deer? I think that could take care of anything in North America....

[waskawood]

Nice looking rig WG. Thanks for sharing it with us. I was thinking of making a .17FB out of my Savage action. The AM would send me back to the operating room to get my shoulder fixed again. Good luck with the mile club. I happen to be a member of the mile club, but that is from a totally different hobby.

[Gordie]

thats a sweet little cannon you got there WG But I have to ask I noticed that you have a spinning reel in one of the pics is it for anything other than fishing. Just curious.

[WalleyeGod]

picks:

Not bad on the recoil as the muzzle brake is really effective and the recoil pad helps too. About like my 06.

waska:

You have some interesting hobbies there. It wouldn't be downhill bowling?

elwood:

I wondered if anyone would pick up on that fishing reel. I use that Shimano on an ice fishing reel and have another just like it on an open water, spare setup. Don't recall why it was on the bench at the time.

WG

[Gordie]

WG I met a guy in wisconnie some years back that showed me how to port shotguns and rifles and he had this 243 and a 44 mag pistol with holes drilled (porting) thru the barrel the 44 mag had a 5/8 hole drill thru the side of the barrel about 1 inch from the end of the barrel along with regular porting hole I think there was 4 row of hole 2 a side and man did it make it nice to shoot as group of 3-4 round took almost all of the up recoil out he shoot leage and consantintly shoot 1 1/2 inch groups off hand. It reall impressed me. then he broke out this remington bolt action 243 layed it on a sand bag and sighted to the target and then pretty much reached over and just pulled ther trigger and said look thru the scope at the target and the cross hairs were still on the bullet hole. he learned alot from neighbor that was retiered a NASA enginer it was some prettyu cool stuff.

BTW the 44 was really really loud I mean scary loud.

As for noticeing the fishing reel I noticed that you seem to have a real organized shop and that fishing reel just didnt fit in the pick or you had other uses for it. hada ask.

[WalleyeGod]

Elwood:

There is a guy out of the gun/shooting club here that will make his own muzzle brakes. Nasty loud and thunderous too especially when you shoot next to it on the firing line. They do make things much nicer to shoot. Have thought about braking my 22-250 so I can see more hits in the dog town

WG