338 RUM and 225gr XLC

[Alaska]

I have a ample supply of 225gr XLC Barnes bullets to load in the 338 RUM. Anyone have experience with this blue bullet in the 338 RUM.

 

[meigsbucks]

I’ve never used that bullet on game. I have loaded 225gr Barnes TTSX and 225gr Swifts with RL25. Got velocity around ~3080fps and good accuracy.
FYI: The Swift works great on blesbok to eland.

 

[Alaska]

I’ve never used that bullet on game. I have loaded 225gr Barnes TTSX and 225gr Swifts with RL25. Got velocity around ~3080fps and good accuracy.
FYI: The Swift works great on blesbok to eland.

Yes 225gr Swift A Frame are my current bullet but I am very low in inventory. I have about 100ea of the XCL bullets in my old stock.

 

[JimP]

They work just like the old X bullets and possibly like the TSX's.

I shot 185 XLC's out of my 340 Weatherby until I saw that they were no longer going to manufacture them so I switched to the 225 TTSX bullets and sold my supply of the XLC's.