Favorite bullets and powders for the 358 Win?

[NYDAN]

What are your favorite powders and bullets for the 358 Winchester? I will use it primarily for stalking deer in the woods - probably with iron sights. I was thinking the 200 gr. Hornady RN or the 200 gr. Sierra RN.

 

[JD338]

Dan,
Take a look at IMR4895, IMR3031, CFE223 and Varget.
The 200 gr bullets should get you over 2400 fps.

JD338

 

[NYDAN]

Jim, I have Varget, but not the others. What about H4198? I have that.

 

[SJB358]

H4198 will work great with 200’s Dan. I used a lot of IMR with Hornady 200’s when I first got mine.

My favorite bullet is the 225 Sierra GK. For deer it opens very nicely and is accurate. My opinion but the PT was a bit too tough for deer but they work fine. If you’re just shooting deer the Sierras are excellent.

I use 15, 748, 2520, etc. it’s not a fussy cartridge mostly.

4198 and 200’s will go 2500-2600 easily and that’ll swat deer.

 

[DrMike]

In my BLRs, I had great success with Hornady 200 g FTX and 47 g IMR3031, 200 g Sierra SPRN and 53 g TAC, Barnes 225 g TSX and 43 g A2015 or 52 g WW748, Nosler 225 g AB and 47 g Varget, Nosler 225 Partition and either 47.5 g W748 or 45.5 g A2495, Sierra 225 g SBT and 41.5 g 10X or 45 g TAC. Most of my hunting was done with Barnes 200 g TSX charged with 49 g H335. All these loads yielded sub-MOA and good velocities.

 

[JD338]

Jim, I have Varget, but not the others. What about H4198? I have that.

Scotty beat me to the punch line.
Scotty and Mike are the gurus so follow their lead.

JD338

 

[NYDAN]

Scotty, Jim, and Mike, thank you for your expertise. I really appreciate it. Just ordered brass and a modified case.

I hope to shoot it with some factory ammo tomorrow morning and see how I get along with the iron sights.

The coin flip came up heads for me this year and I drew 2 deer management tags.