Only a point of interest regarding 1911tuner's note about the federal 110 gr loads...
I was a fed back in "The Day" and they handed us boxes of that 110 gr. JHP stuff. I think it was +P+... and get this... I STILL have some of it I do believe. I'll look at the cases. It's all Winchester, marked with a national stock number and it says "not for resale" as I recall. I'll look at it tonight just for fun.
As I recall it was no problem in a .357 frame like a S&W Model 66, but it was not really recommended by Smith in a little J frame Model 60. We qualified with standard .38 Special, but carried the +P+ loads daily. It is/was not as hot as any standard .357 factory load, I can tell you that.