WB
Those are mean looking hard cast bullets
Monday, June 22, 2020, 13:34

They are not super long range and the critter must be pretty tough. Nilgai or Hog tough. Gary set a benchmark at HHC a while back displaying the limits of the .357 and that particular bullet, to me anyway. It's not a cannon! But a hard cast bullet of good design can do some pretty serious damage.

I made a batch a few years ago for a friend using a 4" S&W 686. Running LilGun the 180 gr. FNGC ran 1350 fps! Shot completely though some nice 200-250# hogs. He was following up some wounded in a bowhunter's camp. Their 9mm and .40 tool box guns with JHPs were completely ineffective unless stuck right in the ear point blank. Sobering to a man thinking they have his butt covered. (BTW he said the 9 had a slight notable edge over the .40 in penetration on them) I like the idea of a FP-FMJ IF the gun feeds it, many just won't. No matter how hard you want them to, if it don't work, it won't.