With the youth deer hunt only 2 weeks away. It was decided that my 13 year old daughter "needed" a cartridge with a little more oomph. She shot her first deer last year with .357 mag. So off to the bullet makin shed we went. So after much deliberation and trial and error, we came up with these.
170 grain .358 soft nose. Worked up a load and settled on 26 grains of accurate 1680. Here's her 100 yard 5 shot group.
These were shot through 1/4 plywood with a wet cardboard backstop. Expansion was perfect and penetrated approx. 20 inches. Recoil is minimal (none) and after the first shot, her confidence level sky rocketed. This group was shot with T/C encore with mgm 21 inch barrel. I can hardly wait for that new batch of venison. D