Is anyone running the 325g FTX in their .458 Wins or Lotts or whatever as a small game load?

Hornady claim the FTX range is designed to perform at muzzle velocities from 1,600 to 2,600 fps but only load the 325g at 2000fps in the .45/70. I'm thinking of running it at ~2500fps for deer and pigs but I'm keen to hear if anyone has been down this path before.
With luck it will perform like an oversized SST and be found nicely mushroomed under the offside skin in 200lb deer

Well, I call thrm gummie grenades at 45/70 speed. They blow up and do not exit if bone is hit. Happened on 8 deer I shot them with. Work ok for lung shots. If you push them faster out of win mag or lott. You will shurley have a varmit bullet. Just don't piss off a bear by shooting them with one! Better choice is the 350 grain in another manufacturer. Barnes, Northfork, ect.

If you're dead set on a gummy tip, try the Hornady 250 MonoFlex. It's a guilding metal slug that doesn't blow up like the FTX

http://www.hornady.com/store/4...458-250-GR-MONOFLEX/

Like them and shoot I shoot them at 1800 in my 458 SOCOM but I think they are soft as bubble gum, figuratively speaking. The 300 grain Remington hollow point has a much harder core alloy. At 2500 I agree they would be great for big varmints, bad for retained edible meat. Unless you head shoot. That ought to be like watermelons.

I used the 325 flextips out of a .45-70 on an Alberta blackbear this spring and wont use them again. Nothing was left but shrapnel. Two shots behind the front leg so no bone was hit. Yes the bear died but I was not impressed at all with their performance. I cant imagine what would happen out of a .458? Maybe turn to shrapnel before they got there.

Thanks for all the info

I run 130g SSTs in my .270 and find they pull up under the offside skin when culling feral goats and fallow deer and I'm hoping the 325g will do the same and be a cheap big bore practice round. Not really keen to try them on anything more solid than a pig. I load 400g Woodleigh PPs for our biggest deer, sambar, and doubt I'll get a chance to take a bear anytime soon unfortunately.

Despite all the marketing hype I'd still expect them to shed velocity back to .45/70 levels over a relatively short distance (150m according to PointBlank). I'll be testing some handloads over a chrony on the weekend but I'm expecting somewhere between 2400 & 2500 fps in my rifle.

Anyone able to pick the cartridge?