I’m with Bert. IMO all the WSL rounds, including the 1905 calibers do exactly what they were intended for at the time they were released.

The 351 SL will do anything the 357 Max will do and more besides if the Max comes out of a handgun. Inside 50 to, say, 75 yards,  no Texas Whitetail could ignore it nor would it do a hog much good. 

I’ve only seen photos of the wild Black bears that once were common here before being poached out during the Depression. Those looked like 150-175 pound animals, 200 being a mighty big one. But I’ve seen several Blacks that live in a state wilderness area  Northeast of Seattle that could have topped 400 pounds. Likewise,  in the Smoky Mountains National Park, there were a couple of boar Blacks that would have easily topped 300. We now read about Blacks taken in the Carolinas, grown fat on corporate soy bean acreage, that look like second string Grizzlies. 

So, neither the old .30 WCF “deer and bear gun” nor a .351 might be ideal for Blacks, at least in some places. As Bert has pointed out,  a .401 would be a whole lot better — if you can find one! 

The largest [and only] creature I’ve actually seen terminated with a 351 was a big ill-tempered nutria, done in from maybe 30 yards by a friend with an early 1907 I once owned, loaded with vintage Western soft point cartridges. A single round sufficed, which proves little except it did fully penetrate both sides of the fairly thick animal and left a 2-inch exit wound. It was more than a love tap. 

In the Winchester add which Bert posted it states that the soft nose round will penetrate 13 pine boards each of which is 7’8th”s inches thick!  A white-tailed deer rib cage is flimsy in comparison!  

Michael

Bo, so do I..Thanks for sharing. 

Maverick said
Bullet placement has more to do with stopping power than the size, speed, and/or weight of a bullet/cartridge. World Records have been held with .22s.

http://bear-hunting.com/2022/7/grizzly-with-a-22-c#:~:text=Bella%20Twin%20was%20a%20calm,for%20a%20good%20long%20time.

One of the most favored cartridges used by poachers of elephants in Africa is the 22 Short. 

Sincerely,

Maverick

  

Yea, Mav but I think I’d rather climb a tree. (I don’t doubt what you say is true but Murphy sometimes takes my first shot for me and leaves the second one to me.)

Carefully placing my SECOND round of .22 Short wherever I’m supposed to put 27 grains of deadliness into a thoroughly outraged, dump-truck sized animal whose complete attention I have just gotten….would probably take more icy resolve  than I could muster. 

I’d be more likely to achieve a “surprise break” with my anal sphincter than with my trigger finger.