gary reeder
think about all the new whoop de do cartridges that have
Saturday, November 23, 2019, 18:23

come out in the last few years. The advertised velocities never actually matched what actually was possible. Think of all the WSM and WSSM and other short magnums. Ammo manufacturers aren't required to be truthful, just required to sell ammo. You have a cartridge that is identical to the 357 Max so really you can't expect velocities to beat it by much if at all. When the 357 Max was developed by Elgin Gates the velocities were hot. The cartridge was developed for the silhouette shooters and those cartridges were required to knock over a 53 lb steel ram at 200 yards, so it took some heavy punch to do so. I would imagine the current advertised loads for the 357 max are a bit lower than the old silhouette loads. And to keep pressures down the ammo manufacturers will keep the loads a bit below max, and probably not near the old 357 Max loads. As my old Granny used to say, "you can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit".