Barry loyd
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Warning . Do not try this yourself. This is not an endorsement of doing this and I am in no way saying you can do but only that I did it. I will not go into detail as to how I did it.
With that out of the way I’ll get to it. I took MY model 10-6 heavy barrel and bored the cylinder to accept 357. There are some that say it can’t be done safely that the heat treating for 38 and 357 are different and there are those that say all the heat treatment was the same. I subscribe to the latter. I plan on keeping the loads relegated to 158gr loads. Hodgdon’s starting load with H110 is 28,600psi which is low for 357. Before anyone says “just get a 357” I have a 686+. I wanted to do it just to do it. So far after 25 rounds it’s holding up.
With that out of the way I’ll get to it. I took MY model 10-6 heavy barrel and bored the cylinder to accept 357. There are some that say it can’t be done safely that the heat treating for 38 and 357 are different and there are those that say all the heat treatment was the same. I subscribe to the latter. I plan on keeping the loads relegated to 158gr loads. Hodgdon’s starting load with H110 is 28,600psi which is low for 357. Before anyone says “just get a 357” I have a 686+. I wanted to do it just to do it. So far after 25 rounds it’s holding up.