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@ 05:19 am (GMT) |
Nathan Fosterhttp://www.ballisticstudies.com/Knowledgebase/.358+Winchester.htmlhttp://www.ballisticstudies.com/Knowledgebase/.356+Winchester.html All the best, Nathan. |
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@ 09:35 am (GMT) |
Warwick MarflittRe: .356 and .358 articles liveAwesome mate. Thanks. |
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@ 09:03 pm (GMT) |
Nathan FosterRe: .356 and .358 articles liveThe irony Warwick, is that the hunter in the photo at the bottom of the article was using a .243 with 100 grain Federal soft point. In the back ground are a full mob of pigs with one very large boar, the biggest I have ever seen. The hunter took careful aim, hit the center neck, but we never found the boar and there was no blood trail. It was one of the most disappointing hunts ever. I had been trailing that boar for well over a year.Put simply, the hide was too thick and the muscle too dense for the .243 bullet to render a deep and wide wound. A .358 bore would have done the trick without any fuss and without having to be picky with bullet choice. |
@ 01:41 am (GMT) |
Bob MavinRe: .356 and .358 articles liveGood article Nathan and a wonderful caliber.With 225 Sierra Game Kings & 225 Woodleigh's and a 300m limit you could hunt the world with a 358 winchester Cheers Bob |
@ 08:03 am (GMT) |
Mike DavisRe: .356 and .358 articles livedarn that sounds like just the ticket for me...you describe my kind of hunting down to a T.a bush hobbits dream calibre this from a chap who for years has used a generic 130 grn in the .270 LOL. |
@ 12:41 pm (GMT) |
Tony MarascoRe: .356 and .358 articles liveMorning fro British Columbia.I have owned and used the .356/model 94 in the past and sold it and now looking for another.Brass is unavailable for the .356 and the .307 and am tempted to try making it from another headstamp , perhaps the .444 and some have done it.I still own .356 win dies as well.Any suggestions? Also, the 94ae kicks like Nitro express rifle imho, and I need a sissy pad for load development.... just thought I'd throw that in. |
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@ 09:04 pm (GMT) |
Nathan FosterRe: .356 and .358 articles liveThanks Bob.I'll do my best to have my Whelen notes edited into something readable form this week. The Whelen may also interest you Mike. Tony, there are a few things to consider. If you had a rifle in hand, you could try cycling straight .308 brass through it and observe how much grip the extractor gives and also how it feeds. Thats one option- but again, you would need a rifle in hand to experiment with. Otherwise you may have to form from Marlin brass. If the rifle needs to be compact enough to be shoved into a pack, then I would opt for the .356. But if you want to cut down on recoil, you could simply build a .358 or Whelen on a straight recoiling stock rifle design. Just depends on how compact you want to go. With the 94 rifle, you get the fast handling, but your head is pitched high due to high scope mounting (unless shooting open sights) while the butt stock is pitched low. The forend is very small and hard to control under recoil. In this sense, we make use of its compact nature over other features. If you have to pack meat through heavy forest where the going is tough (or want to stow the rifle in a traditional pack), the 94 action wins out. In contrast to this, a slick bolt action can be more user friendly to shoot, it can allow us to get on target quick and if the rifle has a light and crisp trigger, it can make snap shooting much easier. Bench work is a breeze and with a box magazine and good dope, we can reach out across gullies. The trade off is a measure of bulk and weight. |
@ 08:09 am (GMT) |
Thomas KitchenRe: .356 and .358 articles liveanother excellent article Nathan well done, i know how hard you work on these to get down to the nuts and bolts.i really need to finish load development with the 35/303 and let you know velocities |
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