350 gr bullets in 458wm

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Does anyone have any testing of various 350 gr bullets in the 458wm. I'm thinking of trying the Hornady RN and Speer hot core. They're both advertised as being for the 458wm.
Moose bear and deer are the menu and I'm planning to run win mag velocities not download to 45/70 levels. Is the Speer really that much more tougher than the Hornady?
 
I used 350 gr. RN hornady in my 458 way back when on deer. I was getting 100 yard clover leaf groups with it. One deer in particular comes to mind. Buddy wounded it,we pursued it and he had my 458 I gave him to use as I walked into the bush trailing it. The deer came out and faced him head on at about 100 yards. When the slug hit him thru the neck and straight on the spine, the deer simply dropped with its legs spread out. The slug hit his spine head on and smashed it all to bits from the energy.Never did try it on a moose...but I am sure it would work just fine.
 
I've shot a lot of Hornady 350s as practice or plinking loads, mostly because they were the cheapest .458 bullet I could find. I think that they were on the list of temporarily discontinued bullets that Hornady sidelined to divert production to more popular bullets. That's something you might want to check into, no use getting too attached to it if you cant get more.

A 350 grain bullet that you might find interesting is the 350 grain TSX seated to the second groove. I get mid 2600s with 69 gr of H4198 and a 24" barrel. I had that up to 71 grains without a sign of pressure but backed it off because 69 shot to the same POI as the heavier bullets. That bullet opens up easily on even small feral pigs, and penetrates to the far hide on Asiatic buffalo, so its safe to assume it will work on everything in between. Trajectory and recoil approximate a .375 with conventional bullet weights.
 
The hornadys are starting to show up on many online sites now. An email from Hornady back in September said they'd run a batch for the hunting seasons and continue to produce them when the demand rose again. Some say they're tough others say they pancake easily at 1800 fps. I can't find a steady supply of Remington 405 fnsp so I'm looking into other options as I may go moose hunting this year
 
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