What Can You Hunt With a .357 Rifle?

[Kestrel]

If I were to get a Marlin 1894 .357, what can you hunt with it?

Coyotes, etc.?

Steve

 

[blades67]

It depends where you live.

 

[Smoke]

I would say most anything you want that is legal in your area. Distance might be the only limiting factor.

 

[Ron L]

I use it for deer within 100 yards or so. Some folks also use it for coyote or other varmints that a 22 may not anchor and that many other centerfires may be overkill for.

 

[dude]

.................they are great for 'hunting' things that go bump in the night

 

[cratz2]

An acquaintance hunts yotes with a Winchester lever gun in 357.

The most successful coyote hunter I know, by the way...

 

[twoblink]

.357Mag out of a rifle is a whole different animal then say out of a 2" snubbie.

75 effective yards roughly, you CAN do deer, but probably not a good idea. Anything smaller then a deer, is great. Yotes are perfect for the round..

And if you pack a 6 shooter on the hip using the same round, even better...

 

[Dr.Rob]

Varmints, javalinas, bobcat?

I think it would be fine for smaller whitetail but a big mulie... I'd prefer a rifle caliber.

Most of the pistol caliber lever guns are a response to Cowboy Shooting Sports, rather than to hunters. Then again, I have a buddy that grew up hunting deer with a winchester 44/40.

 

[RustyHammer]

Depends upon where you live and how good a shot you are!

 

[MrAcheson]

.357 can be safety hotloaded up to almost thuddy thuddy performance in a sufficiently strong lever action (like a 92, not a 73).