Home Forums Lever Action Central Big Bore Levers .348 bullet availability (2022) Model 71

My chronograph is a magnettospeed and I am not knowledgeable on how to make it work with tube feed rifles, darn it. (Yeh, I know Dirt Farmer and MDhave a set up to do such a thing with their magnetospeed chronographs.)I wish I had bought the Labradar unit. However, a fellow member sent me a spreadsheet with this load on it:

Bullet Make Powder Charge wt. Load Density Case Primer OAL Ave. S.D. Eff. fps/gr. Accuracy Source


RCBS 348-200 H 4198 27.0 42% Win CCI 250 1,721 63.74 100yds. 1.5" Big Bore Rifles and Cartridges / Wolfe


So according to this the velocity is close to 1,721 fps

Thanks Bugger

I have about 800 Hornady bullets laid away both FTX and FN. While I think they are good up to moose I have some 230 grain Northforks on order. In my mind the 250's are a bit slow at moderate pressures. Really interested to try the 230's.

Are those the current manufacture Northfork, or from before the sale?

I Sent an email to Hawk about a trial pack of their 180 grain fjp. No response

Dennis at Fury caters to 95+% of his customer base who are lower 48 deer hunters. He is very busy but may have time to do a special order run of 348cal 220gr bullets with a harder core alloy and/or a thicker jacket. I wish I lived closer to him so I could learn the trade and do some short runs for him.

He did say he might consider doing a run of 250gr for guys who want bullets for stuff larger than whitetails.

I have a 24" Ackley, so I think the 250gr are a little more useful than they might be in a 20" factory .348.

Not desperate though...I do have three boxes of ABW 250gr bonded...if I ever get to do that dream Moose hunt.