Lately, I've been working on a 357 load for cats, fox and even coyote. My first choice is 125 grain Remington Golden Saber bullets for 38 Special. Even at 900 fps these things blow up real well and stop in 12 inches of gel. I'm loading them to 1300 fps for trajectory and to try to overexpand them and stop them shorter. A coyote might stop them but I'm anticipating a good chance of exits on cats and fox. I have about 1000 of them leftover from years ago. Most of my 357 bullets are heavier and designed to penetrate big game. With these GS loads, I'm getting a 1-inch group at 25 yards (using a red dot), 2 inches at 50 yards, but they start to drift in a little breeze before 100 yards. I think the G1 BC is 0.118. I can tighten up the vertical with a different powder and trickling, but there's not much I can do about the low-velocity, low-BC wind drift other than hold. I set a 65 yard zero and I'm good for a 75 yard MPBR.
