Originally Posted By: tradmark
Just a thought, imho, at that distance it appears that you have a large entrance wound and that bullet is expanding well, i would just give a thought to what that bullet would do on bone. It may do much much worse. This nearly mirrors alot of what i found on elk with xtps and a 454. Had 5 or six great kills then a few failure that made for some heavy tracking. Sometime give that 180 grain aframe a shot. Itll perform thru anything on a whitetail at any angle with a 357 at that distance. I think u would be really happy with that bullet and honestly 50 yards and in i would hesitate to use it on and elk if i were able to get velocity up over 1500 fps.


From my 357 mag experience. ( mainly a 6" 28 smith and a 8 3/8" 27) and the past years customer experience with the FR with 8-12" barrels and now Ernie's joker length gun I am thinking the bullet choice is between a 158 xtp and a 158 xtp flat point.

Many customers are running the flat point.

The 158 seems to give the best ballance between speed and weight.