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Trophy Bonded Bear Claw bullets for 300 H & H

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chukardogs:
 Would like some opinions. I'm reloading for a Ruger #1 in 300 H & H. While digging around in the reloading box, I came across a box of (25) in 308- 200 gr. Trophy Bonded Bear Claw bullets. I want to have a variety of bullets so I can start getting familiar with this gun.
 I went though all of my books and the internet and found no data specifically related to the TBBC bullets. I contacted Federal (who was absolutely no help) because they've been selling the bullets, Their exact response was,

Waren, 

Thank you for contacting us. We do not have any reloading data for those projectiles and no longer offer them as components.  

Thanks
Federal

Lots of help, they were!

 Anywhoo, I looked at the 200 gr. bullets I do have information on and imo the nearest bullet is the Speer Grand Slam in 200 gr.  I used the middle of the range out of the Speer book because I'm not a big fan of black eyes. If anyone has another opinion on how to look at this, please let me know. Thanks

JWBINX:
200 grains is 200 grains.
Use the data from the speer manual or go online and see who has a load
for 300 H&H 200 grains.
Hodgdon powder has a lot of load data online.
 

chukardogs:
That was my belief also but, physics is physics also. If the bullet going down the barrel has more or less contact with the barrel thus friction, there must be a difference. It might be slight but it's there.

Magnum_Willys:
Imo those were the best bullets ever made for big game.  Maybe not ballistically great but from point blank to 400 yards amazing mushroom everytime.   I did kill shots at point blank range and still had perfect mushrooms.   

chukardogs:
I bought a box of Federal 115 TBBCs for my 25-06 in the 90s. I used three of them to verify and check my center against my other Federal shells and reloads. Then I used them only for hunting and last I checked, I'm down to 1 or 2 left. Every animal that I connected with went down in a heap. The one tree I hit, damn near went down.
You can't buy them in any sizes except the larger bore .375x300 gr. anymore so I guess those days are over. I've found the Speer Grand Slam is also a sledge hammer. Pretty much all I reload for my 25-06 these days. 120 gr. Grand Slam dropped a Caribou at 375 in it's tracks.

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