Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Recovered .35 cal 200 Accubond for your perusal

Can you push them fast enough to get good initial expansion on light game like deer will be the question. With a .358, in a M700 at least, case capacity as relates to COAL, and also sometimes bullet ogive receding into the case neck, are the bugaboos… so with a 250 at 2.82” COAL velocity is going to be capped at a max that may or may not be enough to give optimum results from a given bullet. I decided even a 225 NP @ 2500 fps was a bit “polite” for my tastes on deer, though it’d be good for elk, I would think.

…. however in reality I suspect ANY .35 cal rifle hunting bullet from a .358 is gonna be very effective.

The most devastating wound channel I’ve ever personally seen was from a factory 200-grain Silvertip on a doe at about 150 yards from a .358 BLR I had for a minute. WOW. Note to self: avoid getting shot by a 200-gn Silvertip.

You have to pull the trigger for a Barnes bullet to achieve nirvana.

Everything I ever shot with a Barnes mono ran like hell. Just my experience. Latest was a white tail doe that was hit with a 175LRX out of A 300 WM with a launch speed of 3200 fps. She was broadside at forty yards and did a death sprint for about 200 yards with a hole through the engine room the size of a tennis ball and lung blowing out the off side. That’s been the norm for me with several 30 cal magnums an 06,270 and 280. Not saying they don’t work for others just not for me. I’ve had the conversation many times before and I just don’t run them anymore. I’m looking at Hammers and e-tips next.

Maybe you need a bigger gun?

I have never used the Speer 250 on deer but, they work swell on elk from a .358.