I picked up four boxes of the 285 grain SP's at Natchez for $18.95 per box. At that price I couldn't pass them up if only for the brass. Anybody have any experience with them for medium to large plains game? Say zebra, blue gnu or eland? Headed to Zim in June and would make it easy to shoot factory stuff. I know heresy and blasphemy but easy! Bullets look like corelokts but I know they are European.

Fairly conventional old style softs. Expand quite fast-intended for pig an elk. Work well on the game you have mentioned and have allways found their ammo to be veryy accurate. Shoot their solids in practice only though and take those softs no closer than a photo of a buff

Try it in some hot weather first, S&B can be hot. Personally, I think the stuff is crap...

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only rifles i've used it in are 22-250 and 7x57. i bought 5 boxes of the 7x57 stuff, like you, to get the brass as was cheaper than 100 pcs brass and 100 bullets. am not real impressed w/ quality control or accuracy. both rifles were custom and had minimum chambers and in each case were several rds out of a box that wouldn't chamber. turns out the case lgts varied from LESS than "trim to" to OVER "max" all within 20 rds. that can be dealt with. how good the brass mat'l itself is is up for grabs tho. as good as czech firearms are, i'd expected more out of their ammo. was never impressed w/ their pistol ammo either as far as accuracy is concerned.

but it does seem a good cheap source of brass.

I've had plenty that gave shockingly poor brass life. I wouldn't use S&B if it was free...

S&B is now loading the Barnes X in some calibers (the .300 WinMag for instance) but the collective exxperience of the members of my gun club gives very mixed opinions. We shot some S&B in .300 WinMag (not the Barnes bullet) in a proven 1/2 MOA rifle and got 3 inch groups. Another guy shooting 7X64 gets good accuracy. Generally the brass is very malleable and doesn't last too long for the reloader.