Originally Posted by EdM
Originally Posted by Ocean_Raider
I have a .358 win BLR Lightening, it has a 20" barrel, I am not sure of the twist. It is very fickle with what loads and projectiles it likes.

The 225 gr game king is best in my rifle followed by 225 partition, but the 225 AB groups like shot gun scatter.

I am confident taking shots on large deer out to 250 with this rifle but even at that range your shooting a rainbow, if you truly want to shoot at the ranges you say I would not be using the .358 win.



Load the Barnes 200 gr TTSX and the rainbow goes away some and 250 is easy. We killed a couple of truckloads of critters in Africa with said bullet. My warthog was dropped at just shy of 250 holding right on his back line.


I will stick with the load that I developed for the rifle I tried most .35 cal bullets ( not the Barnes though ) and the Game Kings stand out of bunch

The load I have is 50.5 gr of ADI 2208 compressed with a 225 game king loaded out to maximum mag length, gives 2550 fps and the best groups in my rifle


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