Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Your 340 Bee Pet loads?

I have the following bullets

210 NP
210 TTSX
200 AB and 225 AB

What are your loads?

Mod 70 Winny w/24" barrel and freebore

210 NP
W/W 375 H&H Cases
94.0 gns Rel 25
Fed 215M
3.560" COL
3220 fps

When using Weatherby cases I drop the charge to 92.0 gns

IMR4350 with the 200 BT, and the 210 Partition yielded a lot of accuracy and speed. Think Nosler should have that data, it worked well for me.

83 gr. old H-4831 w/any 250 & Fed 215 in WW 375 cases (powder direct from Hodgdon manual)-Muddy

My 340 Roy likes the 215gr Sierra Gameking, 1 inch group of 4 shots using 81.5gr of IMR 7828

What kind of on game performance is that 215 Sierra giving you?

Mine does very well pushing 225 AB's with 88 grains of RL22, the chrono shows 3030 fps and about 3/4" groups. Get similar results with 7828.....Van

That I gotta try with the 225's

340 Weatherby / Mk V with 23 inch Pac-Nor 3 groove barrel and Pac-Nor brake Fed 215 primers and Wea brass.

200 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip with 87 gr IMR 4831 = 3130 fps

225 Hornady Interbond with 88 gr H4831 = 3000 fps

200 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip with 90 gr H4831 = 3085 fps

Mine likes 83.2 gr of RL-19 with 225 accubonds and 225 TSX both are max loads with Krieger 26" barrel.

Never saw a reason to try anything but 7828. A few grains over book takes 250s to 2950 in my MK Five.

Fotis, As far as performance on game with the 215gr Sierra is still pending.
I worked up that load in the 340 Roy to take to Africa for a Plain's game hunt...I was testing the 215 and also the 230gr Norma Oryx.
After all that loading and shooting, I left the Roy home and used a 30-06 that belonged to the PH.

Fwiw...the 215 is actually a tough little bullet.
I've seen quite a few posts about this and decided to section one a while back. I would say its built alot on the order of the 120 bt nosler where they seem to use lower portion of a 140 bt jacket from the tip down.
What I saw of the 215 jacket it would very well have been the lower portion of a 250 gk jacket....very stout from tip down.

I have also sectioned the 215 gn Sierra along with most all the available 338 bullets. I wouldn't trust the 215 up close on elk sized game at full throttle 340/338 RUM velocities.

Maybe on a total broadside it would be fine but, there are too many better bullets out there.

I'm only shooting 250s now but I used R19 with 225s with great results. With 250s I use R17 and Mag Pro,