Guys,

Last year I deer hunted here with a 375 H&H using 260 NBTs with a load that I thought was abt 2500 fps. At short distances, it was a bit much. Actually blew the little buck off his feet. The jacket disintegrated and left a bunch of small fragments in the meat.

Got my chrono running earlier this year, and the load chrono'd to almost 2700 fps. As I said, a bit much for short distances.

Anyone have a load for the 235 Speer that:

1) makes around 2400 fps,
2) doesn't require a filler, and
3) is pretty accurate?

Want it for deer.

I have a load w RL-15 that cooks 2934 with less than dime sized groups ... but its WAY too fast for the purpose!

Thanks,

mstarling
I have shot deer with a 375 H&H with the 235 Speer and the 220 Hornady FP, both with 60gr. of IMR3031. I never chronographed 60gr., but 64gr of IMR3031 and the 220 Hornady FP chronoed 2618fps. I thought that was too fast for my use and dropped the charge to 60gr. Both bullets have worked good. No filler used.

[ 06-30-2003, 03:55: Message edited by: N E 450 No2 ]

Mike,I've used the following in my Remington Safari .375 h&h.

40 gr. SR 4759 2,200 fps

40 gr. IMR 4227 2,100 fps

45 gr. IMR 4198 2,200 fps

22 gr. Alliant Blue Dot not Chronoghaphed yet.

All assembled in WW or Rem Cases.
Primed with WW Large Rifle Primers.
Overall Length 3.6".
Temperature was 78 degrees F.
No fillers used.

I'd suggest weighing the Speer 235 grain bullets
as I saw a 3-4 grain variance in the ones I used.
Segregated the into lots of High/Low and Mid weights.

Good Shooting,
Steve from New Joisey

Just looked in my Sreer reloading manuel #12 and they call for IMR SR-4759 powder in the reduced load section for 235gr bullet of the .375 H&H section.
IMR SR-4759
30.0gr MAX (Compressed) = 1701fps
26.0gr MIN =1500fps
I've never seen IMR SR-4759 but that's what it lists.
Terry

Mike,

I use 62 gr. of IMR 3031, chronos right around 2500 fps and is insanely accurate.

I've also shot the 220-gr. Hornady flat point with SR-4759 and XMP-5744 -- loads were from the Hornady manual, I think they were around 2200 fps and also very accurate. 5744 had a slight edge on accuracy and consistency. Unfortunately, that bullet doesn't feed well in my rifle.

Haven't shot game with either but they are great practice loads and don't require much sight adjustment compared to full-power stuff.

John

My slowest load with the speer 235 was 2478fps using 63 gr IMR 3031 and WLRM primer. Gave 1.25 in group. Best load to date with that bullet was 74.5 gr 4064 WLRM primer clocked at 2850 fps and .875 in group.