.357 Fireball Fun

Love when you catch the ring. The guy who took my avatar pic tried, but couldn't. Fireballs rock.

When I first read the thread title, I thought it would be about a .350 Legend Short wildcat.....

Wow! The fire rings are impressive! Thanks for posting.

JudgeHolden10 said:

When is a barrel too short for a .357 magnum?

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When the sleeve of your shirt lights on fire or you smell burnt hair after firing.

Everyone loves a good fireball

great pictures bersaguy!

Here's my contribution - friend shooting my gun.

2 3/4" M69 - 23.0gr Accurate 11FS, 240gr JSP



Same gun - 24.0gr H110, 240gr JSP



Funny thing, I've never noticed the fireball when shooting the gun under the same conditions.

Paul

No such thing as too much fireball

460Shooter said:

When the sleeve of your shirt lights on fire or you smell burnt hair after firing.

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I shoot a 357Max, the best time I ever had was one spring evening; warm and damp and mosquitoes were terrible, fired a few shots and noticed a bunch of near dead mosquitoes on the bench, started waiting for my forearms to fill with blood suckers and then fire a round, my accuracy went down, but it was a great time watching the pile of dead and dying blood suckers...

Now imagine that inside your house at night against a bad guy.

Here are a few 357 fireballs from my 2.5 inch 686

George P said:

Now imagine that inside your house at night against a bad guy.

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The fireball from a snubbie might be a better fight stopper than the round itself!

You know, that gives me an idea. There's a lot of energy present after launching the projectile, and for some reason I recalled that air toy that propelled a blast of air.
I wonder if it's possible to harness that remaining energy in such a way it strikes the target as well.

Shoot 'em and cook 'em at the same time.

Back in the day we used to have a fella come out to shoot a 2.5" 44mag snubbie. He could barely hit the target with it, but I don't think he cared. He just enjoyed the fireball and blast wave. It was definitely one of those ear plugs AND muffs type of guns.

Tech Ninja said:

No such thing as too much fireball

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I would opine that a fireball that sets your hair on fire is too much.

The shortest barrel I have for my DW 357Max is a 6" and it is a flame thrower, as well as being ultra loud, I guess I'm lucky I was out bid on the 4" set for it, I surely would have bolted it on and fired it, at least once...

Ok, so not a revolver. But still lots of fun to make fireballs with.

What no YouTube vid of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire"?

George P said:

Now imagine that inside your house at night against a bad guy.

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Not all shooting of firearms is seriousness or strictly business or training to kill some bad guy. My firearms are for my pleasure and enjoyment and I really don't even think about them as being weapons. But don't think I don't have a few readily available around the house.

Yes, fireballs are much more impressive when dusk approaches.

Someone - Elmer Keith? - used to refer to some pistol rounds as "BBD loads". BBD = Blind, Burn, and Deafen. He may have had 44 Magnum in mind, but the 357s shown above will do for me.

Those are really incredible fireballs, WOW! I shoot a lot of black powder guns; now THAT'S a fireball.

Love the fireball pics, my contribution...a series of 125 gr and H110 out of a 6.5" Blackhawk...