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How is the Woodleigh 250 factory bullet in the Norma loads ? I have heard conflicting reports. Also, anyone have any data for the 200 Grain Hornady roundnose. I have boxes and boxes of them. Just got my 358. | ||
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24" Barrel. Only load I use in this rifle. very accurate. 358 NM Bullet Powder Prim Charge case OAL VEL 250SPR IMR4350 CCI250 77.5 Norma 3.34 2778 | |||
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Nice to see you here too, PaulH I'll have to try that load too. With a 250gr bulelt, I use 78.0gr of Norma 204 (which is the same as Reloader-19 -- both made here in Sweden at the same factory on the same line at the same time). Velocity of this load is 877 m/s (2877fps if I recall my conversion factor correctly). Work up to this load carefully -- this isn't a starting load! Kicks a bit too...  jpb | |||
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Ill look at that load. My above load is not max and is loaded for accuracey. So there is some fiddle room there. IMR4350 seems to be my best powder I swear. It almost never fails me. For almost all my favorite loads posted here on this forum, you will see it. It always seems to come through, where other powders I have used during load development fall on their face. | |||
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Does RL-22 do well in this cartridge? I've had great succes with it in my 300WinMag. I'm a big fan of the RL stuff, easy metering and all. Another question, how do you get your brass? New, 338WinMag necked up, other? | |||
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Quote: RL22 I would be too slow burning for this cartridge. The slowest I tested was RL19, but abandoned it because it was compressing heavily. I found IMR4350, while it compress the powder a bit, was the best in terms of accuracy and velocity. I load to get a balance between the two, leaning towards accuracy. J.R Sundra wrote a good article on the 358 Norma and recommended powders between ImR 4350 and IMR4895. He settled on IMR4895 with a 250gr bullet at 2820fps from a 22" barrel. Powders Ive worked with in this caliber are; IMR4320-irratic in accuracy Varget-irratic velocity RL15- low velocity, accuracy average IMR4895- would be my second choice WW760-low velocity and a dirty load RL19- heavy compression and dirty load For brass I use new Norma cases now. I bought 10 boxes of .358 Norma 250gr roundnose ammo for 26.95 each a few years back. I pull the bullet, pop the primer, and reload to the load in my first post. That is the only load I use in this rifle. I have used 338, but there is a slight diff in the length from base to shoulder between the two calibers. 2.085 for the Norma and 2.04 for the.338 Win. I did like 300 Win Mag brass. After running it through the Norma sizing it set the shoulder back just right. Then you just have to trimm it down. | |||
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Here's a target of the above load and the Norma factory 250gr roundnose ammo. I can get that anytime as long as Im not acting stupid behind the rifle (which is not very often).  | |||
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paul, how does that factory load do on moose? does the bullet hold up under impact? | |||
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I havent used the Norma factory 250gr roundnose stuff, except at the range. Very accurate. The 250 gr speers have been good on elk so far. In this cartridge I would suggest loading down the 200 grain Hornadys. I would guess anthing above 2800-2900 fps and the bullet will fail. Ive never loaded them, but would imagine you could get them close to 3200 fps or so. | |||
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