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Ive wanted a .358 mag of some sort for a while, missed out on a couple nice 358 normas that I should have bought. Finally a good deal came along on here for a 358sta chambered barrel and full reloading package so I swooped it up and met up with my buddy doublegun and he unscrewed my old Remington 700lss and swapped barrels for the 358sta. We had some headspace issues and needed a larger recoil lug, but that was quickly resolved.

I picked the rifle up this week from him and started to do some load development, mostly fireforming brass fromm 8mm mag to the 358sta.
82gr of rl22 and 250gr speer hotcores seated out to the lands. Tomorrow im headed out to the range to form some brass(might add ive never done this so im a bit nervous) I cant decide what I will make for a hunting load but I have some 225gr sierra game kings and 200gr ttsx, and 200gr accubonds. Ive read some good reviews about the sierras on moose deer and elk.
top pic is a 35 whelen, 358sta, 375 ruger


I will update this thread as things progress
 
Nice rifle.

I would do some asking around before using those 225 Sierras at the velocity you can expect with that rifle. A TTSX or Nosler Partition may be a better choice.
 
What does the finished product weigh, and what length barrel is it? I'd imagine it will be fairly snappy on the bench.
 
If you choose to try the Sierra 225gr's send an email to Sierra and ask their advice. I've sent requests to them and they're pretty quick to reply.
You can also resize 375H&H to 358STA.
This is a quote from another forum "My fire forming consisted of necking down the 375 H&H in the 358STA Redding dies and then a 250gr bullet and 80grs of H4350. Then the cases were put through the FL dies and trimmed and de-burred and load testing started."
 
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Consider the Woodleigh 310gr. Plenty of wallop and has a ballistic coefficient of 0.458 for good down-range energy retention and reasonably flat trajectory. Good results on Moose.

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Slamfire said:
Consider the Woodleigh 310gr. Plenty of wallop and has a ballistic coefficient of 0.458 for good down-range energy retention and reasonably flat trajectory. Good results on Moose.

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Now this is a cartridge worthy of the 310... leave that little .358 Win alone...

Personally, I would shoot 250's in this .358 STA... the 250 Partition at 3000 fps would put a hurtin' on just about anything... but the 225 Accubond at 3200 would be an impressive all-around load.
 
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