[IMTHDUKE]

I just returned from the range....took along this gun among some others...
http://photos.gafana.com/photos/0926252810996597757302.share.jpg

Had it equipped with these grips....
http://photos.gafana.com/photos/0666252440996573503915.share.jpg
I got this gun to load shot shells for snakes as I live on the shore of a river.
Or at the range I usually fire 38 specials, but decided to stoke it with some 357mags....
What a handful and after two cylinders of 7 each....I was done.

Now, the moral of this story is this: I have never fired a J frame with 357...but I can only imagine that it is brutal. Talking about lack of target acquisition after the first round...you would still be recovering from the shock to the paw.

Does anyone really load those J frames with 357mags?

[Claude Clay]

made for those who sunbath nude on icebergs and sleep on beds of nails.

i'lll wager the web of your hand was sore for 2 days.

my 642 is +p rated but i carry and practice with silvertips or nyclads (handload replicates) cause i would rather be accurate than noisy.

[wep45]

i have a S&W model 686-4pp, .357 magnum. i like shooting .38 special rounds just fine. i can be as accurate as possible without the buck and roar:cool:

[Darthbauer]

I shot one of those once, once!

It made my freaking hand bleed.

[jhco]

i shoot +p out of my 642 and its not all that bad but im sure 357 would be a little worse

[Eightball]

I've heard waaaaaay too many stories of guys taking their little snubbie j-frames out with .357 Magnum, and breaking the webbing of their hand before the cylinder was through.

No thanks, not for me. Though, when I get a J-frame, the extra pressure barriers allowed by the .357 chambering will allow me to carry darn near any .38 load without me worrying about my firearm exploding.

[Redhawk1]

I would rather shoot my 4 inch 500 Mag with 700 gr. bullets, (And Have), than shoot that with hot 357 Mag ammo.

[Hutch]

Funny you should bring this up...

I was just out today and tried out my 60-10 (3" full lug barrel) and torched off a cylinder full of the hot Remington 125's. Yowza. No doubt iun your mind if the round went off. Still-and-all, not as bad as I remember from my <shudder> SP101 2.25 inch. That 'un just PUNISHED me. I have difficulty imagining what a Ti-Scan J-frame with full-house 125's would feel like.

[M'bogo]

I have a simular S&W the 386 Sc Mountain Lite 7 shot .357 I shoot it alot with full power loads. The recoil is fast and attention getting but not anything that an average adlult could not handle. A lot of people have never shot one of these light weight guns. That never stops them from passing along, with embellishment the horror stories they have heard.

Cowboy up its just a .357 . . .:scrutiny:

M'bogo

[foghornl]

Have a shooting budd with one of those ultra-lite-tanium .357 S&W's.

Shot it with a Buffalo Bore .357Mag load...

ONCE :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

That was more than sufficient for me. I'll stick with my Vaquero or Blackhawk for those just short of thermo-nuclear loads...thank-yew-very-much

[rondog]

I'd think that big loads in little guns are just for goblin shooting. For targets and plinking, that's why God gave us .38 Specials.

[Kind of Blued]

I thought that the "ouch factor" had to do with what boolits do to bad guys and animals. ;)