The Mother of all .357 mag. Rifle Thread.

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:25 pm

http://forums.handloads.com/forum_posts ... PN=1&TPN=1

colo native · Post by **colo native** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:13 pm

Hummmmmmmm

Post by **Hobie** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:23 pm

I posted on that one. How did you dig that up?

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:24 pm

Hobie wrote:I posted on that one. How did you dig that up?

He's one of your FBI trackers; he broke his cover...

On a more serious note - I see on THAT forum there is a little "printable version" logo at the bottom left of the page, and if you click that, you get a version of all 17 pages you can save as one file...

Does Leverguns have anything like that...? I wind up saving multiple pages individually, and it is a real time consumer.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:45 pm

Didn't our 1911 thread go longer than that? Sore Shoulder started that, right?

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:59 am

Hmmm, looks like I need to dig through that one...

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:46 am

Hobie wrote:I posted on that one. How did you dig that up?

I have taken notice that there seems to be a decent interest in
casting /reloading the .357 mag. for use in rifles.
I have been doing some exploration into possibly starting a dedicated
forum regarding this topic.

Thoughts please.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:58 am

As much as I like the .357 in a rifle, that's an awfully narrow focus. As a sub-forum it might work, but I think it would die pretty quickly or devolve into somthing totally non-.357...

Good thought though.

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:18 pm

Old Ironsights wrote:As much as I like the .357 in a rifle, that's an awfully narrow focus. As a sub-forum it might work, but I think it would die pretty quickly or devolve into somthing totally non-.357...

Good thought though.

I have the same concern; it would indeed be a narrow subject.
But it could bloom into something fun and interesting as others
Have.

I may very well start it out in a free group format, such as is found on
www. multiply.com or www. yuku.com.
Still in the research & planning stage's.

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:46 pm

Maybe a pistol caliber forum to cover more bases?

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:14 pm

I've been thinking about sending one of my Handi Rifles back in and having a .357 Mag barrel put on it. If I do I think I'll also ream the barrel to .357 Max.

A 180 grain cast out of that should zip right along.

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:46 pm

Rusty wrote:I've been thinking about sending one of my Handi Rifles back in and having a .357 Mag barrel put on it. If I do I think I'll also ream the barrel to .357 Max.

A 180 grain cast out of that should zip right along.

I should know this after all the Max threads but I'll ask anyway...

You can shoot Mags out of the Max right? Kind of like shooting Specials in a Mag?

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 1:07 am

Yep you can shoot mag's and .38 Spcls as well.

I'm thinking that with a Max and 180 grains you should be able to top 2400 FPS.

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:34 am

Rusty wrote:I've been thinking about sending one of my Handi Rifles back in and having a .357 Mag barrel put on it. If I do I think I'll also ream the barrel to .357 Max.

A 180 grain cast out of that should zip right along.

Some good .357 max info.

http://www.bellmtcs.com/store/index.php?cid=121

Post by **Hobie** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:02 am

Rusty wrote:Yep you can shoot mag's and .38 Spcls as well.

I'm thinking that with a Max and 180 grains you should be able to top 2400 FPS.

I think 2200-2300 fps or so is about max for the MAX with the 180s. One can also use the .38 Colt and Short Colt cases. 2.5 gr. Bullseye under a 200 gr. cast in a .38 Special case "bloops" from a rifle barrel but shoots pretty well out to 50 yards. Great fun. Several people have reamed the .357 Mag barrels out to .357 Max.

MikeS. · Post by **MikeS.** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:06 pm

Well my Rossi 92 is just about my favorite firearm. .357 has long been my favorite caliber. I have more firearms chambered for it then any other. Including the semi-auto Coonan. I went and copied that web pages to a Word document so I can read it offline when I have time.

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:29 am

The two links dedicated to the .357 max in "rifles".
The second one is from one of our own.

http://357maximum.com/

http://home.comcast.net/~parslowb/2006/ ... st_01.html

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