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Yep not a short range cartridge by any means. Mine's a BLR and last deer I shot was around 200 yards and quartering away. Thought I'd maybe catch the bullet, a 200 Hornady SP, but it took out the opposite shoulder on the way out.

I think JES is funding his retirement off this forum alone. I had talked myself out of a 358 (again) and along comes this thread (again).

Does anyone have a 760/7600 bored by JES?

Truer words have seldom been written on this site.

I have 2. Both are Jess re-bores. a Sako L57 with a 20" barrel and Savage with a 16 1/4" barrel. I shoot handloads in both. The Sako gets 200gr Silvertips, Hornadys or Rem psp over max load of Tac and the Savage gets 180 Barnes TSX loaded down to fast 35 Rem velocities with H 4895.

I’d be surprised if it no longer fed well; .358 has a minimal shoulder to hang up on. I suppose a guy might find a bullet ogive that messed with feeding... I played around a bunch with 140 and 157 (?) grain hollowpoint pistol bullets (again with the Reloder 7) and I dimly recall those short very blunt bullets might not have fed particularly well.

When I’ve gone the opposite direction with a cartridge shoulder- like from .223 to .223AI - is where I’ve seen feeding issues.

AICS mags do tend to cure all.

I’m gonna get one done when I find me one! A 760/7600 that is.

Anybody know anyone that works on Savage 99 triggers. Mine is stout! I would like to lighten it up some.

That Model 70 looks like a handy little killer! Sweet rifle.

I have an early steel BLR that shoots great. I used Win 250 silver tips @2250 fps until I ran out. Now I use Speer 250's. They all shoot 1" to 1 1/8" groups. I've also owned a re-barreled sa REM 700 and a newer lightweight BLR both of which shot fine. I've sold both since then but I will never get rid of my early BLR. They can bury with it!

I passed on a 760 this summer in 308. It looked brand new and would have been perfect for a JES project. That’s all I could think about doing to it when I was looking at it. I came real close to getting it bi had my son go by a couples times to check on it since it was in the town he lives in.

My .358 Win is a Howa 1500 JES rebored from .243 that I bought off of a member here last fall. I load Barnes 180 grain TTSX with 44 grains of Reloder 7 under them. Shot 3/4” instantly, and I said good enough! I carried about 4 or 5 days hunting deer, but saw no worthy targets for terminal testing.

I get phenominal accuracy with Hornady 200gr. RN and IMR 3031 and Sierra Game King 225gr. with IMR 4064. I've taken many whitetails with these loads.

Ruger 77 RS & Tikka CTR (JES re-bore)...



200gr TSX & 200gr CoreLokt RNSP (Ruger) / 180gr TTSX (Tikka)

My 358 is another JES rebore . Started out as a 243 sps . He bored it and chopped the barrel to 18.5 inches. I added iron sights and duracoated the action, bolt and barrel flat black. Sits in a Bergara synthetic stock. I like to shoot heavy bullets in it, 220 grain flat nose speers and 250 gr sierras. It is a close range thumper for deer and bear so I load it as such. It will shoot right around MOA with those loads. If I need to shoot longer ranges I have other guns for that.

It seems a lot of people like the 358!! It bowls over pigs like train hitting a pickup truck

I really like that Ruger RS with the ebony foreend tip. Was that a factory offering or a custom? The red pad looks factory.

These are my thoughts as well. Thanks.

For the past 40 years I've always had a 358 Win , first a Savage 99F and then 99A and a custom Mauser, shot factory Winchester 200 gr Silver Tips...near perfect setup for the South Carolina swamps that we hunted.

They also have the Hornady .357" 250gr Sub-X on sale. Thinking those would be a great deer buster at moderate velocity.

From what I understand, Bill Ruger wanted to do a run of 358Win RSI’s. After the barrels were thrown onto the actions, the assembly folks realized they were the wrong length to fit into the RSI stocks. When they let Bill know of the error, he told the production crew to throw them into ultralight stocks and get them out of the factory. Back then, some ultralight models had ebony forends and others were all wood. I just got lucky that this one was thrown into one of the Ebony forend stocks.

As a sidenote, now that I have a but of time in the woods with mine and it shows a little use. it doesn’t appear these Ebony forends are actually ebony, but rather just a blackened out tip. Still like it over the plain wood though.