With its 230 grain FMJ bullet, the round dwarfed all other handgun cartridges shot during these conflicts and when fired from a Thompson submachine gun it proved downright deadly in close quarters.įor over one hundred years the 1911 design has been tinkered with and improved upon in darn near every way imaginable but the gun would never have made a century without the. In only a few years, the 1911 Government Model would prove itself on the battlefields of Europe in one war after another. In 1911, Colt and John Browning brought out the most recognizable pistol in history. 45 ACP is not a great beginners’ caliber, especially in the smaller pistols though I have watched shooters struggle with it even the larger framed guns like the Glock 21.45 ACP I can also tell you, for most if not all the. 38 Specials, while there is no such “starter round” for the. 357 (and one alluded to above) is that shooters (and beginning shooters) can practice with lighter, cheaper. 357 may be the best all-around handgun hunting round out there and time and again proving it can get the job done on deer just as well as varmints. 357 is out of the picture for the law enforcement though to be sure it still packs a wallop. 357’s and from then on it was only a matter of time before the wild adolescent round slid into calmer, lukewarm adulthood. Eventually shooters (and their hands) became more inclined to shoot tamer. However over the years the guns and loads got lighter as shooters found the recoil in some combinations could be a bit stout. 357 Magnum stayed at the top of the heap in the personal defense market for a very long time.
So much so, in fact, that it was impossible to turn it over even with the hand crank.”
By way of example, when tested Colonel Douglas Wesson tested the round out on an automobile, he wrote that “with the motor idling at high speed, one shot was fired through the hood from the Magnum, and the engine was wrecked.
357 was hotter than today, with a 158 grain bullet traveling at 1,500 fps (much faster than it moves at now in factory guise) it was nothing to sneeze at. Edgar Hoover prompting most of his agents to pick up the hot new round for themselves. In fact, the first Registered Magnum was sent to none other than J. 357 Magnum was introduced in 1935 and law enforcement agencies almost immediately sought its services as the fastest and flattest shooting round on the market. Question is, out of these two titans, which one has the nuts?. One is the most popular revolver cartridge in the land, dealing double duties as both a premier personal defense and hunting round, while the other has served the American military through four wars, countless skirmishes and-let’s just call a spade a spade here-set the bar by which all other semi auto pistol cartridges are to be judged.
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