My son shoots a 357 Maximum rifle with a 16" barrel. His hunting load is a 220gr LHP cast 20:1 (pure lead & tin) and 9.5 gr of Viht Tin Star for 1120fps. The bullet retains better than 90% of it's weight in wet newspaper and penetrates deer completely when shots are limited to behind the shoulder shots to the boiler room.
A 158gr SWC at 1500fps will do the same or even better due to the higher speed. I bet it would even break a shoulder with ease.
When we hunt deer with soft, expanding cast bullets we shoot for ribs. Harder, SWC bullets get shot into the shoulders to break them down mechanically.
