We think that that the accuracy of the shot will significantly depend on the experience and skill of the shooter. The ultra-heavy bullet loads now on the market become serious deer medicine when fired from a rifle. So, a person who is used to heavier recoil will get better performance from the .44 Mag. A bullet needs to penetrate the right amount so that it can transfer the kinetic energy into the target so that it gets the damage and fragmentation. It greatly depends on the firearm you put that cartridge in. Delivering everything you’d want from a pistol-caliber long gun, the granddaddy magnum covers nearly all the bases and even a bit more. Law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. relied upon—and spoke in glowing terms about—their .357s.
And if you have an eye toward prepping for the worse, the rifle gives you the flexibility to feed it and a handgun from the same trough. All the while, massive, unprecedented government programs had yet to make any meaningful dent in the overall economy. Failing to do so can result in breaking your hand, wrist or other bodily harm. The United States in 1934 stood at the abyss. Finally, if you are a reloader both the .357 and .38 are among the most forgiving and simplest fodder for your press. The choice of buying will rest on you and the firearm that you are currently using. Recoil is quite an essential factor when you are using a handgun. Six major concealed carry insurance programs are now available to the millions of Americans who carry concealed. ), you could still, in all likelihood, find .38 Special, and at least have something to stuff into your gun which would get you by until some magnums happened along. Your assailant, or anyone else involved in the matter, may sue you regardless how justified the shooting may have been. For a pistol cartridge that’s moving.
Enter into this dystopian land a new criminal—the motorized bandit. Many factors lead to the motor bandit’s ebb: better inter-agency cooperation, radio equipped squad cars, dedicated lawmen such as Melvin Purvis and Frank Hamer, but the powerful .357 Magnum helped in ways both tangible and intangible. But for an all-around performer, it’s difficult to beat a .357 rifle. If you want a faster velocity, you always have the option to choose smaller and lighter bullets. All rights reserved. Furthermore, the ammunition selection is excellent and diverse, particularly bullet styles. Copyright 2002, 2016 by Chuck Hawks. Elwood Shelton is an online content developer for Gun Digest.
of free recoil energy was the maximum allowable for a military service rifle. 44 compare accuracy, range, and recoil-wise? There aren't many activities as universally beloved as fishing.
It may come up to about 600 ft. Lb. By now, we have talked about the overall performance of the cartridges, both of which are quite popular among handgun users. Their initial research, published in 1992 and entitled, Handgun Stopping Power: The Definitive Study, showed the .357 Magnum had the best track record in actual shootings. Prohibition had solidified the criminal underworld’s position in American society which created a supply chain for illicit guns and law-breaking knowhow.
Both of them have a similar ballistic coefficient, which isn’t great, just like several other cartridges that are used for handguns. I picked up a .357 handi rifle that I thought would be great for her to deer hunt with. But if we compare between the two cartridges, the .357 Mag has less recoil compared to the .44 Mag. They robbed, grifted, and shot their way into the headlines. Seeing in the dark is no longer a thing only superheroes and their villain counterparts... As an angler, you surely know that not all fish are the same. The .44 cartridge was introduced a little late in and around 1956. You can find it at any retailer who stocks ammunition, no matter how remote the locale. Still, we think that it is also a key thing in determining for handgun cartridges. A bullet needs to travel well and have good penetration to be effective. The .357 Magnum is as popular as ever with civilian shooters for self-defense, silhouette competition, and hunting. The following recoil figures are taken from various sources including online recoil calculators, the Remington Shoot! The .357 cartridge was designed to produce remote wounding effects in living targets. Like the .44 and .327 caliber magnums, the .357 Magnum has a shorter parent cartridge which will chamber in guns made for the magnum. Moving on to the .38 +P Golden Saber, there was a little more recoil, but not much change in the scores. 45 Long Colt and. The design of the cartridge is such that it penetrates quite deep. While modern powders enabled the .38 Special to almost double its working pressures, S&W knew they could not trust consumers to differentiate between a standard pressure .38 and the steroid injected version so they lengthened the new round’s case to ensure it could not fit into revolvers chambered for .38 Special. Here’s the course of fire: Stage 1: 10 yards, 5 shots in 8 seconds or less. Never-the-less, the table below should give a reasonably accurate comparison of the recoil of most popular handgun cartridges and loads when fired in pistols of typical weight. And I should point out here, it’s really not fair to shoot a snubby test with a full-size revolver, but I ran it with the GP100 just this once, for the sake of comparison.
You now have at least 3 chamber choices:.357 MAGnum throated long to accept .357 MAXimum published loads in MAGnum brass, 357 MAXimum, and.350 Legend. Far from putting a moped engine in a half-ton truck, revolver magnums more than hold their own coming out of a rifle or carbine.
Along with that, there are different varieties when it comes to .357 Mag, which isn’t available for .44 Mag. .357 Mag seems to be more common and cheaper than. It was introduced by Elmer Keith, along with the Smith and Wesson Company, by developing the .44 special. It is more than accurate enough for close quarters battle and hunting at reasonable ranges. For most, with an honest appraisal of their practical shooting, such a gun would potentially handle 90-percent of the situations they routinely face.