With the snow melting, I'm finally going to get back into gel tests and all that, so first thing this spring was Sierra's 158 JHC in 357 Magnum. Contacted Sierra, they suggested 2400, and I prefer 2400 and Aliant and all, but I wanted to go full power, so i tested with 17.0 H110 and CCI 550's. My gel test ended up with a standard deviation of 5fps and some extremely consistent expansion and penetration:


Some questions for those who load more with H110 and also those who have loaded, and maybe hunted, with the bullet in question: my M27 usually shoots quite strong velocity wise against book data, and in this case the average velocity was quite a bit lower than listed, what are anyone else's chronos reading with this or similar load? Is it sane to push any more than 17.0 with a jacketed 158? Is this kind of low standard deviation normal with this powder and range of load? And, for those who have hunted with this bullet, how has it performed in the field?

I appreciate any help I can get.