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I loved mine in a savage 99, didn’t fit me though and the recoil wasn’t to my liking. It went down the road. I’ll have another one someday I’m sure, but I’m playing with a few other chamberings for the time being. Also had a 348 Winchester , beautiful browning 71. Little on the heavy side to carry. Ballistic wise they are near identical twins. They both killed deer dead, as do most other centerfire rifles.

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I had a ruger scout rebored by JES. Just like the 358. Shoots great. Same recoil as 308.

I got this 99 today, 358.

This is my 20" R700 at a nice mellow 2,230 FPS and Hornady 200s at 100 yards x 3 shots...



The faster load (2,630 FPS) is about 1/2"

Think it was about 2 years back when i got a Remington 7KS in .358 from another fellow here on the 'fire.... i topped it with a 1.5-5x with German #4 reticle...52.0gr TAC with the 180 TTSX yields 2504fps....liking the combo quite a bit...

I’m going to try the 180 TTSX first. I was going to use H 4895.

fantastic out to 300yards with almost any available projectile.

not worth a damn beyond.

same can be said of this operator.

BLR, here.

havent yet shot any hogs with a .358 TTSX, but kinda been wondering how many of 'em that bullets would plow through, if i can catch 'em lined up at the feeders.

Hanco I love your 99 in 358. That's a wonderful Christmas present!! Not easy to come by in that condition.

Thanks, gathering up scope, mounts, dies, bullets, etc. I’m eager to shoot a pig with it.

I read an article where the Author built a wooden box where he could stager wooden dowels to simulate brush to do a test for the best "brush gun". While he acknowledged there was no rifle cartridge that would reliably shoot through brush a hit the target, he did have the best results from the mid range .33/.35 caliber cartridges moving at moderate speed.

hanco, is that an F? Nice rifle, congrats on a tough find.

my 358. Only harvested a bear with it so far.

Ive got its big brother in my safe. 1956 model 70 in 458 magnum.

Yes, it’s an F. Fireball2 got me interested in 99’s. He sold me a 308. I was surprised at how accurate it is. I’m eager to shoot this one. It will be after the first before I get supplies to load a few rounds.

Hornady 200 gr. RN are yielding great groups in my Redman rebored pre'64 M/70 .35 Whelen, used it to harvest this fall's KY whitetail. The bullet was recovered weighing 122 gr. perfectly mushroomed, I plan to use this load for all my future whitetail hunting.

I have a couple boxes of Sierra 200 grain round nose bullets to try. They should be great on deer and pigs.

I had two 358's, my Model 99 was the first year Savage offered it, shot it a number of years, then found out how much it was worth, made a very nice profit on it.
I missed how well it worked on local whitetail, so i had Montana Rifle Co. build me a custom one with a left handed action and a stock that fit my over sized body.
Great round in a fantastic gun.