Now that Smith and Wesson has a cylinder good to 71,000 psi, why not commercialize the 357 supermag?
Case length is 1.610", which compares favorably with the 1.625" case length of the .500 S&W and leaves plenty of room for long heavy bullets, with a high sectional density moving at high velocities up front...
Take one X frame, attach a smaller bore barrel, and drill more (but smaller) bores into that beefy X frame cylinder...
With the medium bore size .357 you could potentially fit a lot of rounds. There are tasty 8 shot N frames, of couse. So at least 8 should be possible in X frame. I've never actually seen an x frame in person, but it looks a whole lot bigger than N in the web photos out there. Granted that prudence may require some extra wall thickness between the bores of the supermag, but perhaps 9 rounds, maybe as many as ten (depending on pressure levels) ...
Could be the best dual purpose (hunting and silhoutte) gun ever.
who's with me?
Case length is 1.610", which compares favorably with the 1.625" case length of the .500 S&W and leaves plenty of room for long heavy bullets, with a high sectional density moving at high velocities up front...
Take one X frame, attach a smaller bore barrel, and drill more (but smaller) bores into that beefy X frame cylinder...
With the medium bore size .357 you could potentially fit a lot of rounds. There are tasty 8 shot N frames, of couse. So at least 8 should be possible in X frame. I've never actually seen an x frame in person, but it looks a whole lot bigger than N in the web photos out there. Granted that prudence may require some extra wall thickness between the bores of the supermag, but perhaps 9 rounds, maybe as many as ten (depending on pressure levels) ...
Could be the best dual purpose (hunting and silhoutte) gun ever.
who's with me?