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Cutting that barrel to shorter length would not be a smart decision.

Bob,

The way you and your compadre are going, I'm getting way behind.... I think I'm playing in this league with short pants on....

GH

stay at 22, the 18.5 is really, really loud! ball of flame is hudge! did i mention it is very loud? just me i guess.

BLEH!

Rather than start a new .350 thread I am just reviving this one...think of it a .350 Zombie.....

On another thread about .358 Winchesters someone mentioned that one of the shops has 200 grain Accubond seconds... I bought a few bag and am sorry to report that like its 225 grain big brother this one will not fit in a 2.800" Remington box magazine either...unless you cut the tip off and file it flat... Then it fits by just a hair to spare.

Did some loading this last two days as I have 5 rifles and no ammo.... After loading up a 100 rounds of my go-to hunting load, 220 Speer/60.0 Winchester 748, I loaded up a few more bullets with the same charge just for funzies....



Left to right:

180 Hornady XTP-HP

170 Speer UniCore FP

160 Speer JSWC-SP

180 Hornady SSP

180 Speer HotCore FP

200 Nosler AccuBond with the nose clipped then filed flat to the jacket











And the go-to Speer load..

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So sometime soon I'll take a few of the rifles out and run the loads over a chrono and maybe shoot some water jugs...

Bob

I've found those that have had their nose clipped fly pretty darn well. I've got plenty of room in my SA Vanguard for everything I want to fling out of my 358-WSM, but When I loaded the 225 Swift A-Frame I filed the nose flat... sort of a "Protected Point" concept. I didn't file them because of any length issue, I just did it cause I didn't like seeing them with their noses all smashed in the magazine after enduring a little recoil.
At 2930fps they had no trouble expanding early on upon their entry into the one Moose I tried them on

I bet they didn't!

Hey RJM-- how long is a 200-gn Accubond? Just the bullet?

Jeff, if your refer to him as "RJM" rather than "RJR" he just might answer ya

...and while we is measuring up 35 cal stuff.. anybody got a OAL on the 180 TTSX..?

This is a buddy of mines brain child (to match his 6.5 Rem Mag) that's arrived at the 'smith finally. Forgive me for posting it again.

#3 Krieger 1-14" SS on a Rem 700 SS SAUM action. The barrel will be 22".

Wyatt CFE-6 box and Ti Stock, PTG shroud and pin with Talley lows and VX3 2.5-8 on top.

Anyone used the 200gr TTSX on anything big? Not worried about damage, just really really like penetration.

Hey A,

Brother, you'll get penetration.

That CFE-6 gives you the same internal length as does the factory box 2.865" and perhaps your use of that box is to stay in keeping with that particular rifles' twin, the 6.5 Rem Mag.

You might already know this, but the CFE-5 will give you a 2.995" internal, or .130" more length to work with.

The 200 Grain TTSX is 1.296" long.
When that bullet's base is at the shoulder of the case, up out of the body where the powder capacity is not infringed upon, you end up with a COAL of 2.996"

By running the CFE-6 and that 200 grain TTSX, you'll be forced to seat the base of that particular bullet slightly over 1/8" deep into the body of the case.

This might not matter to you and "M" but I offer this as only a suggestion.

Were it me, and I was going to buy a Wyatt's anyway, I'd run the CFE-5 Magazine box, and then I'd throat to "Kiss" using that 200 TTSX seated to a COAL of 2.990-ish.

The length of the AccuBod 225 is 1.267". The shank is about .5" which is the same as the neck of the .350 Mag.

Loaded up some test ammo today for the Montana 1999. There is an amazing amount of usable space in that Winchester style magazine box. In seating all the 250 grain bullet I have so that the base of the bullet is to the bottom of the neck, none of the rounds are too long for the magazine even though some exceed 3".

Using Winchester 748 powder, a Winchester LR Magnum primer and Hornady 250 Spire point bullets I loaded up test rounds from 60-67 grains. On LoadData there is one page that has .350 Magnum Stretch for those actions/chambers that will take bullets seated out from the nominal 2.800". 67 grains is the max I went because that is all the case body will hold so the powder is even with the bottom of the case neck. Loads with a 20" barrel with bullets seated out to 3.0" topped out at 64 grains/2580-2620 fps...so we shall see.

The same was done with the 225 AccuBond. The LOA for that round is just under 3". Depending on how 748 works I'll try Reloader 15 next...supposed to be a great powder for .35s.

Bob

I am going to try the new 200 gr NAB at 2.800" over 60 gr of TAC. Dunno yet if that is going to work or not, but I think it will.

I have the 200 gr NAB's at home, and have not measured them, but the Nosler Web page says they are 1.213"

anyone here tried running AA2520 in the .350mag?

At 1.213" I'm wondering why RJR found the 200 NAB to be too long? The 225 NPT is about 1.175" and it works in at a 2.8" COAL.

Wondering same.

Could be that at a COAL of 2.8", the ogive is still inside the case mouth.

Don't think so. Compressed load?

Changed it. Yep, I think that's it. Without actually loading one, I eyed it, and that could be a problem. More better for a Whelen.

It'd be OK with RL7 or, I think, TAC. Those getcha there without getting into a bunch of compression. Talking .358 here.

Its a CFE-5 my mistake! It is to match the little sister with a 2.995" internal box length.