Nature Boy
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No, really.
I’m actually going on a black bear hunt in Canada this summer and I’ve decided to take my Browning BLR in .358 win.
I’m sure any of the loads I’ve worked up for deer would be more than adequate but this gives me an excuse to try something different
I recently purchased some 250g Hornady SP Interlocks from a guy online and figured this would be a good reason to see if I could work up a decent load with them. A 250g bullet is at the upper limit on this cartridge’s capability.
For comparison, a 150g .308 on the left and 250g .358 on the right
I chose H4895 for the powder and both Hodgdon and Hornady load data were in agreement for the load min-max
I loaded some up in a range from 42.5 to 44.5 with the hope of finding something that would deliver consistent accuracy and terminal performance out to 150 yards, which, according to the guide, would be the max distance I’d be shooting.
Got to the range after work yesterday and shot my test loads and the best turned out to be 44g giving me a 2,223 avg FPS and very good accuracy. 5 shots at 100 yards:
Loaded this into the ballistics app and it looks like it will work well
Next step to to load up some more at 44g to see if it’s repeatable.
I’m actually going on a black bear hunt in Canada this summer and I’ve decided to take my Browning BLR in .358 win.
I’m sure any of the loads I’ve worked up for deer would be more than adequate but this gives me an excuse to try something different
I recently purchased some 250g Hornady SP Interlocks from a guy online and figured this would be a good reason to see if I could work up a decent load with them. A 250g bullet is at the upper limit on this cartridge’s capability.
For comparison, a 150g .308 on the left and 250g .358 on the right
I chose H4895 for the powder and both Hodgdon and Hornady load data were in agreement for the load min-max
I loaded some up in a range from 42.5 to 44.5 with the hope of finding something that would deliver consistent accuracy and terminal performance out to 150 yards, which, according to the guide, would be the max distance I’d be shooting.
Got to the range after work yesterday and shot my test loads and the best turned out to be 44g giving me a 2,223 avg FPS and very good accuracy. 5 shots at 100 yards:
Loaded this into the ballistics app and it looks like it will work well
Next step to to load up some more at 44g to see if it’s repeatable.