Browning .358 recipe contest.

[Stormin30]

Hello .358 CGN loaders

I write to you requesting your input for the Browning .358 BLR. I will start by stating this is my first handload ever. My goal is to create an accuate combo with your help. The harvest is for deer to moose in one bullet. I have researched on CGN and the prefferance is all over the map or not available anymore. I have sourced original brass from a local supplier. The powder combo will follow bullet chosen.
#1: So from all the .358 hunters, my first issue is to nail down the best bullet for hunting in the southern BC for deer and up to moose. I want to use years of trial and error from you wallets help me in a accurate useful bullet.
#2: What should my first handload group look like for the BLR?
#3: What kind of range are ya'll reaching out to harvest with .358?

I look forward to the bench both in the man cave and on the range. Thanks for any suggestions you might have to share in creating my first load combonation. Once I hit a toonie out at 300 yards. I will have to put the BLR away till hunting season. Hum what will be the next edition to my collection? That is a whole different post... Oh! Beacuse this a contest. I will post the final recipe that helped me take the first steps into handloading.

Sincerely,
Stormin30

 

[tabs4u]

I have had success with several bullets in the 200 gr range as I hunt in Ontario mostly for deer but would not hesitate to use it on Moose. I have had great luck with Rem Core-loks both round nose and PSP as well as the Hornady round-nose and Pointed sptizer. For powder I have had good success with both H4895 and Varget as I try to use a non-temperature sensitive power. Read the manuals as every gun is differnt and start 3-5 grains below max and work your way up as everygun is different.

For accuracy again it depends on each indivudual gun but with above bullets and powders mine gun will print its favourite loads into about an inch at 100. Allot of people think that the .358 is a short range cartridge but I would have no problem taken a shot at game from a steady rest out to 250 yards.

 

[Lefty Dick]

My recipie for sucess for my 358 Win BLR worked like this.

First you go buy some bullets:

Then you go look up some load data:
http://data.hodgdon.com/main_menu.asp

Then you assemble some ammunition, go to the range and try it out, and see if your rifle likes what you've made.

And if your lucky some day you'll get something like this as an end result.

Good luck

 

[bam bam]

Hello .358 CGN loaders


#1: So from all the .358 hunters, my first issue is to nail down the best bullet for hunting in the southern BC for deer and up to moose. I want to use years of trial and error from you wallets help me in a accurate useful bullet.
#2: What should my first handload group look like for the BLR?
#3: What kind of range are ya'll reaching out to harvest with .358?

Stormin,

1) 250 gr Speer spitzer s.p. over Accurate 2015, start at 38gr work on up to a max of 42gr, will kill everything in BC.

2) you should see groups around 1.5 moa, dependant on many varibles though

3) out to as far as you need for practical hunting, longest for me was about300 yards.

Have fun with your BLR, great gun.

Cheers!

 

[fuzz]

I shoot 3 358w's and load developed for bro's blr. Only deer with them so far. All of them like 250gr Speer HC's and H335 at 2150 to 2250fps depending on the guns likes.

 

[Stormin30]

Thanks for the help in narrowing down the bullet.
Great tips Taps, BamBam, Tips this will help me narrow down my choices. I really appreciate the time spent on Lefty Dicks reply. It is your input that makes CGN pricless to me and other grean horns. Lefty I only hope my 1st harvest is like your pictured deer.
Thanks again and look forward to more input if you have any

Sincerely,
Stormin30

 

[gunrunner8]

Spear 250gr HC bullet is excelent "heavy brush" performer for my Win mod 88, but 225gr Nosler partition would give you more flexibility and extra 50yds or so range in open clearcuts. H 4895 should give anything you could ask for from a gunpowder, and then some. Being temperature insensitive is a big bonus.