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But there is nothing like shooting 500gr @ 1650fps out of a 500 mag.
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But there is nothing like shooting 500gr @ 1650fps out of a 500 mag.
I would start with a .357. Later you can pick up a .44.
The only way to shoot magnums cheap these days is to reload, you should look into that.
Tex
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Originally Posted by Texas1911
I saw a 7 rounder, 686 iirc??, was very nice.
We're not pawns in any game,
not tools of bigger men.
You plan on hunting 4 legged varmits, 2 legged varmits, or just fun?
More for fun at this point. Want to add 2 larger revolvers to my collection. I have 2 S&W 642's in .38 spec +p, atm.
We're not pawns in any game,
not tools of bigger men.
GP100 is a good hunk of metal,I would go with it.
It can do some good work and the amount of loads out there are outstanding!
Every good collection should include a good .357 Magnum.
Be polite to everyone but be prepared to kill them at a moments notice.
another vote for the .357 ... and I like Burt Gummer's stick-in and the end stating that a collection needs a "good" oh so true... you're not going to do much but leave it around if all it is to you is a hunk of metal that's not fun...GP100 is a good hunk of metal,I would go with it.
It can do some good work and the amount of loads out there are outstanding!
Every good collection should include a good .357 Magnum.
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -- Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764
Mad I say, Mad,mad,mad!
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DC I have owned both for years.
My 5 screw Ruger SA is a nail driver and the sweetest trigger pull you have ever seen. But the fact is both my 357 spend more time in the safe than anywhere else.
On the other hand my 44 mag see lots of time at the range and use to see lots of time hunting.
IMO the 44 has more uses.
Down loaded with a 180 JHP at 1150 fps it shoots like the 357 with a larger bullet cross section and weight.
After much powder testing over the 20+ years of loading and some help from the folks at Alliant Powders I can load light 44 within penny's of the 357mag.
If I recall you are not a hand loader (if I wrong I'm sorry) but once you start down the magnum pistol path it becomes a necessity to curb costs.
You can't up-load a 357 to 44 ballistics but you can down load a 44 to the 357 ballistics - well kinda, you always have a heavier bullet and larger cross section.
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Maybe my wife will do something crazy and I can end up with one of each
We're not pawns in any game,
not tools of bigger men.
Maybe my wife will do something crazy and I can end up with one of each
A woman do something crazy?
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -- Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764
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