Starline 357 Maximum brass!!

[swampcrawler]

This may be old news to you guys, but Starline has Max brass available on their site!! Kinda made my day. The max is a nearly ideal cartridge for me and my hunting/shooting style, and I know it has some fans here.

It's only weakness (for those of us who like it) was the nearly impossible to find brass. Hopefully that's all over now!

Time to start pinching pennies for another contender barrel!!

 

[Swampman]

Have you given any thought to the .357 Herrett?

Out of a Contender it'll do anything the Maximum can do, plus a couple hundred extra fps if you ever feel like you need it.

There's a little extra time involved in forming the cases, but 30-30's are cheap and once fired brass can often be found lying around for free as deer season approaches.

As long as there are any centerfire metallic cases available, you'll probably be able to get 30-30's.

.357 Max, not so much...

 

[kingmt]

I'm not familiar with the 357 Max but speaking of 30 30 I just came across a few I washed & since it isn't a caliber I use I'll be posting them in the pay it forward thread soon.

 

[Dframe]

glad to hear about the max brass. I'll have to start feeding my contender

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Those who shoot the .357 Max know you can match the performance of the 30-30 with it. I never owned one but I have shot it a lot and I like it. It's formative in a long barrel Ruger Blackhawk.

Thanks for the heads up, I will tell my shooting buddy right now. Unfortunately they felt the need to charge over twice the price as for .357 Mag brass for only an 1/8th of an inch of brass length.

 

[swampcrawler]

Have you given any thought to the .357 Herrett?

Out of a Contender it'll do anything the Maximum can do, plus a couple hundred extra fps if you ever feel like you need it.

There's a little extra time involved in forming the cases, but 30-30's are cheap and once fired brass can often be found lying around for free as deer season approaches.

As long as there are any centerfire metallic cases available, you'll probably be able to get 30-30's.

.357 Max, not so much...

I've looked into the Herret, 35 Remington and 35 Remington Rimmed as well as 35-444 (358 bellm or whatever other names it goes by) and like all of them. But I love how easy the Max is to deal with. Straight wall pistol cases are as simple as it gets to load for, and a 158 go cast bullet over a pinch of something like Unique is a very cheap, quiet practice round with practically no recoil.

I'm sure most of the same could be said for the others, but I just like the Max.

 

[GarrettJ]

A few Midwestern states allow rifle deer hunting with some straight-walled cases, but not bottlenecks. So the Max would work for that purpose, where the Herrett would not.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

A few Midwestern states allow rifle deer hunting with some straight-walled cases, but not bottlenecks. So the Max would work for that purpose, where the Herrett would not.

If you can't use a bottle neck rifle cartridge what can you use?

 

[GarrettJ]

If you can't use a bottle neck rifle cartridge what can you use?

Um, straight wall stuff. Primarily "pistol" calibers in rifles like .357 .41 & .44 Magnums. .454 Casull, .357 Max, .460 & .480 Ruger, .50AE, etc.

There are also max case lengths. I believe some people are using shortened .444 Marlin and similar.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Um, straight wall stuff. Primarily "pistol" calibers in rifles like .357 .41 & .44 Magnums. .454 Casull, .357 Max, .460 & .480 Ruger, .50AE, etc.

There are also max case lengths. I believe some people are using shortened .444 Marlin and similar.

Wow, I only asked because it struck me strange the State would want to force you to hunt with a less effective cartridge. Not very humane IMO. Why no .243, 7mm-08, 30-30, .308, 30-06 and the like?

I mean, the 30-30 is over 100 years old and a proven deer getter, what could be illegal about the 30-30?

 

[GarrettJ]

Wow, I only asked because it struck me strange the State would want to force you to hunt with a less effective cartridge.

Yeah, that's pretty much what they're looking for. People have this odd notion here that deer should be hunted with shotguns.

Regulators are afraid of bullets traveling too far, so they have historically limited deer hunting to slugs or buckshot, plus handguns and muzzle-loaders.

But laws often don't keep up with technology. You can shoot accurately several hundred yards with a sabotted slug in a rifled shotgun barrel, or with a modern black powder rifle.

They only recently allowed rifles here, but using straight walled "pistol" cartridges, as noted.

Logic need not apply.