.38 SPL in a .357 revolver?

[ColtPythonElite]

I've shot thousands and thousands of .38's out of .357's and never had a "crud" ring interfer with chambering a .357 round. I guess that 5 minutes I spend after shooting my guns running a bore brush thru them has always paid off.

 

[Tallinar]

I load .357 cases with .38 special-level loads. Problem solved.

Personally, the only .38 special +P I really have any use for is factory SD ammo.

If I find myself handloading any .38 specials, they are pipsqueek level loads for plinking anyway.

 

[leadcounsel]

Way back in the 1930s the .357 Magnum was developed as a way to give the .38 Special more power, without blowing up weaker .38 Special guns. They slightly legnthened the .38 case to create the .357. This was not done to increase the powder the case contained, it was to insure that .357 would not be loaded into .38 special chambers. They intended for .38s to be used in .357s as a way to make the guns more versatile.

I'm puzzled by why the designers, back in the day, didn't make the ".357" a ".385" or ".39" to ensure that the more powerful round wasn't inserted into a .38... weird how they made the diameter SMALLER...

 

[Warp]

I'm puzzled by why the designers, back in the day, didn't make the ".357" a ".385" or ".39" to ensure that the more powerful round wasn't inserted into a .38... weird how they made the diameter SMALLER...

...so that you could fire .38spl in a .357.

 

[Walkalong]

I'm puzzled by why the designers, back in the day, didn't make the ".357" a ".385" or ".39" to ensure that the more powerful round wasn't inserted into a .38... weird how they made the diameter SMALLER...

They are both are the same caliber. Weird how they first called the .357 a .38.