Handgun rounds compared to .357 Magnum

[Lugnut]

I've been shooting mostly 9mm and .40 caliber from my pistols lately. And occasionally .45s. I haven't used my S&W 686 with a 4" barrel in quite a while but this weekend I brought it with my along with some 38 and .357 magnums. I had forgot just how potent the magnum round was... it seemed like a cannon compared to the 9mm and .40. I'm sure there are stats comparing the rounds out there but man was I suprised. I can't imagine a 44magnum.

I had to stop for fear of causing some bad flinching!

 

[Nashmack]

I love my Smith 19, I usually bring along .38 wadcutters when I go to the range and load up with .357s when I leave.

 

[jhrosier]

[YAWN]9mm,.40 Short&Weak[/YAWN]
Now you are starting to understand why all the old revolver shooters have such a smug look...
WITH A .44 MAG, WE ONLY NEED SIX SHOTS

 

[Nashmack]

Anything you can do with 6 rounds of .44 I can do with one of .460 Scary & Walloping.

 

[jhrosier]

Anything you can do with 6 rounds of .44 I can do with one of .460 Scary & Walloping.

Scary, to be sure.
The darn thing is just SO UGLY
Kind of a caricature of a gun.
Interesting cartridge, though.

 

[Nashmack]

Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.

Some people love the way a Beretta looks, I can't stand em. Then again I buy things to shoot, not collect. The .460 has always interested me since it came out, I'd love to get one! I'd like it even more if it came in a blue version instead of that stainless, but that's just me, I'm wierd like that.

 

[jhrosier]

Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.

Some people love the way a Beretta looks, I can't stand em. Then again I buy things to shoot, not collect. The .460 has always interested me since it came out, I'd love to get one! I'd like it even more if it came in a blue version instead of that stainless, but that's just me, I'm wierd like that.

A stretched Ruger Bisley 5-shot, in .460 would do it for me.
Speaking of power, I have a 12" Contender, in 45-70, around here somewhere, and I haven't shot it.... maybe this weekend.

 

[Nashmack]

I wouldn't mind having a Phelps myself, inflated 6 shot SAA desing chambered for .45-70.

 

[Chris]

I can do it in 5... (^_^)

 

[jhrosier]

Chris,
Ever shoot it at night?

 

[BillO]

Try a 10mm with 135JHP Double Tap ammo. 1650 fps! Yahoo.

 

[Chris]

Chris,
Ever shoot it at night?

Dusk - yes. But even in cloudy weather, you can see the flame.

I guess you could call it a real 'Flamer'.

But we don't want Derek and Brent getting too excited. (^_^)

 

[Jaxon]

[YAWN]9mm,.40 Short&Weak[/YAWN]
Now you are starting to understand why all the old revolver shooters have such a smug look...
WITH A .44 MAG, WE ONLY NEED SIX SHOTS

Actually 1 or 2 will suffice.

RJ

 

[highlander]

After seeing the first Dirty Harry movie I JUST had to have a .44 mag S&W were out of my price range so I bought a Super Blackhawk took it to Me a week or so later to make a long story short it's not the terror that everyone made it to be
Recoil etc are in the eyes of the shooters I have fired a Contender in 45/70 with 300gr factory loads even with a muzzle brake 3 shots was enough for me
BTW I shoot 45/70 in rifles on a regular basis

 

[Jaxon]

After seeing the first Dirty Harry movie I JUST had to have a .44 mag S&W <SNIP>

As did I. I had one for awhile to handgun Deer back in Ohio. It was a great weapon, but I traded it away for something else. Back then, my collection was small and "fluid" depending on how much detail money (we called it "special duty") I was bringing in each week.

RJ

 

[Adam_MA]

I was watching one of those "History of The Gun" episodes on the History Channel once, and they did a piece on the S&W 44 MAG. After the Dirty Harry movie, a ton of people went out and bought them. They had an actual statistic, that of all the S&W 44 MAG's out there, the average weapon had only been fired 1-2 times before being either sold, or put away forever.

Not sure how true it is, but it was on the History Channel.

 

[highlander]

After DH S&W doubled or tripled their production of Mod 29 and srill couldn"t keep up'
We had a local smith who got a hold of some mod 28 frames and built 29s on them. he sold em all in very short order

 

[Arioch]

I wouldn't mind having a Phelps myself, inflated 6 shot SAA desing chambered for .45-70.

I saw and handled one a bunch of years ago. And I wanted it BAD!!!!

 

[drgrant]

The biggest thing I've noticed, is loads are very subjective.

The gun seems to influence the notion of recoil or muzzle flip that you
get more than anything else.

Most factory .357 loads are pussycats in "real" all steel revolvers, but
in something like an airweight, all that goes out the window.

With revolvers there is also stuff like buffalo bore, etc, which are
rediculous loads right out of the box.

I own a bunch of different guns, but right now none of them is as punishing
as my G29 is. (10mm Auto). Even with factory rem UMC the gun is
pretty ferocious. The short barrel makes it LOUD, too, even with good
ear pro.

Some of it is all a matter of the different guns youve fired. If you've
ever fired a huge elephant rifle, a .500 S+W, .480 ruger, etc, those kinds
of things put everything in persepective. I fired a .375 H+H rifle,
twice.... and just about everything ive shot compared to that gun was
basically a mousegun, in comparison.

 

[Arioch]

The biggest thing I've noticed, is loads are very subjective.

Too true. One day at the range I was shooting a 45-70 lever rifle, an old Shutsen style single shot target rifle in 7.5 Swiss, and a Browning safari grade .375 H&H magnum. Subjectively, the 45-70 was the most pleasant to shoot, and the target rifle the most punishing because of the narrow brass crescent shaped butt plate.