Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles .358 Winchester pet loads with pistol bullets?

I plan to shoot my little Frontier a lot with pistol bullet loads.

Will mostly use jacketed and want:

1. A general purpose load with a 158-180 at around 2,000 fps,

2. A 125 screamer at max velocities.

3. A fairly quiet load with a 125 or lighter at around 1,000 fps.

Hoping Seafire might have some Blue Dot loads, as I just got a pound to fiddle with quiet loads in a .22/250.

It's been too many years to remember the charge weight and I doubt I have it written down but I do know that I used Reloder 7 with 158 grainers. The data was straight out of a Speer manual.

Dale

I run 38/H4895 w/158 JHPs.....actually dumped a few p/dogs with that load @ 200 yds....right @ 1900 fps

I got to poking around in my stuff and found a Speer manual last printed in 1994, orig an 87 model.

It had plenty of the screamer loads.

More worried about the mid-range and woods cruising/plinkers now.

Wonder if the good ol' 13 gr. Red Dot load would work OK with the 125s?

I had more or less stopped reloading once my kids started coming along, but ammo prices and some new calibers have rekindled my interest...and particularly like the quiet/turkey load idea for most shooting.

Tikka, I like the sound of that 1,900 fps load.

Got a lot more decade+ old 1 lb. canisters of pistol powders laying around than rifle powders at the moment: Unique, Clays, 231, Red Dot, Green Dot, HP-38, etc.

Would like to use them up first, while slowly buying kegs of new powder.

reloader 7 and H-335 always have good proven results with the ol 358 winchester..................