Favorite Bullets For .358 Win?

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Hi there,... I bought a BLR .358win this winter and I'm looking foreward to hunting with it this fall and I'm just curious what all you .358win veterans favorite bullets are.
I'm thinking I'll use 200gr Hornady RN for deer,...220gr Speer Hotcore FN for bears, and maybe deer too.
I picked up a box of 50 250gr Nosler Partitions yesterday at a gun show but they are a little heavy for what I hunt, but for $25 I could'nt turn them down. Never Know,....I might get drawn for a moose tag someday. Anyway,,,just wondering what you guys have found to work well/best on Whitetails and Black Bears.
 
My 358 ( Ruger ) seems to work the best with any 225 gr bullet.
Its good for Deer and I think it will work well for Moose also and I don't have to alternate between 200 and 250 gr. loads.
I've tried most different weights, all shoot well in my gun so I think a 225 gr. bullet is a good compromise and it allows for a tad more powder space than a 250 gr. bullet.
 
Going to try the 180's on fur this season.
The 200's should be big enough.
The drop at a 100 yards on the 250's were enough for me to
reconsider using them around here for distance.
A fine shooting lever and caliber to say the least.
 
I shot a moose and an elk with the Speer 220 FP bullets in a .356, an almost identical round. I was happy with penetration ( right through) and expansion.
 
180gr would probly be good for a little longer shots also.

I would love to get my hands on 400 or 500 of the 200gr Silver Tips. They have always been my favorite bullet. I shot them exclusively out of my .300sav.(150gr). I don't know why Winchester stoped making them.
 
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Everyone has their special loads ,it is important to have quality constructed bullets. I cant say this enough ,I feel it shines with 225 grain my favorite for accuracy being the Woodleigh pushed by the TAC rifle powder
 
Longwalker said:
I shot a moose and an elk with the Speer 220 FP bullets in a .356, an almost identical round. I was happy with penetration ( right through) and expansion.
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I'm working on a load for the Speer 220's in my Marlin 356; that's what I'll be using for moose this year if all works out. I've also liked the Remington 200gr Corelokts in my 35 Rem, so they may be worth researching as to viability at the higher velocities of the 356/358.
 
Myself and a friend have loaded and hunted with the 358 bullets for more than 30 years. His rifle is an original first generation Rem 600 with the 18 1/2" barrel that has the Delrin rib on it. Mine is a Rem 600 with a 20" Douglas barrel. My wife's was a Rem Model 7 with a 20" Shilen, that C-FBMI now owns.

All three rifles shoot the 250 gr Speer spitzer so well, and it performs so well, that we never use anything else for big game. One year Bert killed a huge moose bull, 63", so far away that the bullet did not even expand. He guessed it to be 400 yd, put daylight between the horizontal crosswise and the withers, and started sharpening the knives. :)

I joked that we should reload the bullet for the next year's Spring bear hunt.

Ted
 
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My Ruger Frontier .358 shoots tiny groups and shoots remarkably flat to 225 yards with the 250 Hornady SP fueled by IMR 4198 every thing that I have shot drops on the spot.
 
Not at all surprised. Everyone thinks the 358 is a short range brush cartridge, but no so. Sight a 250 spitzer three inches high at 100 yd, and it's a dead on hold out to 250 yd on any big game animal, well beyond that on moose and bison.

Bert uses his for everything, including sheep hunting!

Ted
 
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Not at all surprised. Everyone thinks the 358 is a short range brush cartridge, but no so. Sight a 250 spitzer three inches high at 100 yd, and it's a dead on hold out to 250 yd on any big game animal, well beyond that on moose and bison.

Bert uses his for everything, including sheep hunting!

Ted
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For those tossing IMR 4320 into their brass, how much you toss'in in there?
 
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