Capebuffalo
AH veteran
- Joined
- May 18, 2022
- Messages
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- 250
- Hunted
- South Africa (Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape - Kalahari), Botswana, Canada
Thanks for sharing!Cape Buffalo,
On the great cats… I’ve had the greatest success with Nosler Partitions.View attachment 533281
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Nosler used to load a 250Gr Partition factory load for the .338 Winchester Magnum. Absolutely magnificent. Unfortunately, new Nosler products seem to be in extremely short supply all over the world since the past one year.
Among currently manufactured/available factory loaded ammunition for lion & leopard, I really like these in a .375 Holland & Holland Magnum.
Nice old fashioned unbonded lead cored design. For lion & leopard, this is actually a good thing.Buy Power-Shok Rifle 375 H&H Magnum Ammo 300 | 375B
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I’m assuming that this is the 250Gr .338 caliber Hornady Interlock bullet which you’re referring to. It will be absolutely devastating for lion & leopard (where legal, of course). A close friend recently hunted a 500LB male lion In Mozambique with a .338 Winchester Magnum Model 70 Super Grade and hand loaded 250Gr Hornady round nosed Interlocks. One broadside heart-lung shot folded the lion and the game went less than 30 yards before dropping.
Up until 1980, Winchester used to offer a 300Gr Power-Point factory load for the .338 Winchester Magnum. It was a favorite cartridge of King Mahendra of Nepal, who favored this load in his .338 Winchester Magnum Mannlicher Schounauer for hunting Royal Bengal tigers in the Terrai.