In my admittedly limited testing, the 250 Speer was quite the penetrator in wet and dry phonebooks. Couldn't keep it in the wet phone books from a 358 Norma.
Interesting! My Speer bullets were very old (purchased from Ellwood Epps back in Ontario, and they looked like they might have been one of Ellwood's first purchases for the store).
After seeing the post just below mine by kk_alaska about
recent Speer performance, I wonder how often they have changed over the years?
Just in passing, I will mention that the Nosler Ballistic Tip (discontinued now) expanded well but held together, retained a lot of mass, and penetrated like a freight train. It was sure a lot different than the Nosler Ballistic Tips I tried in 7mm! Too bad they dropped the .358 version -- I am down to just one box now.
John
