The .357 Maximum Chamber Pressure set by SAAMI is 35,000 PSI. If you load it to the original pressures when it was first developed you get a little more out of it. But that should be done in heavy frame guns only.
Anymore I don't run them that hard and most of the time I am shooting .38 Special loads. Easier on powder and lead and not so much blast.
Early loads were in brass that used a Large Pistol Primer.
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Do you have a .357? What's your favorite?
- WB, 2024-01-14, 07:52
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357
- tedt, 2024-01-15, 15:18
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Very fancy! A late model I take.
- WB, 2024-01-15, 15:39
- 357 - tedt, 2024-01-16, 19:19
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Very fancy! A late model I take.
- WB, 2024-01-15, 15:39
- my favorites.....All work by GNR...... - David R, 2024-01-15, 10:02
- 357 - tedt, 2024-01-14, 22:22
- A DW Pistol Pac that I wouldn't part with. (nm) - JPL, 2024-01-14, 17:29
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Da Wesson model 15
- DennisD, 2024-01-14, 12:18
- I’ll never forget my first 6” M15 DW. - WB, 2024-01-14, 13:31
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I have a few ... not near enough but enough to get by
- Jim Taylor, 2024-01-14, 08:13
- My 3 1/2" model 27... something about that gun - JFS, 2024-01-14, 13:41
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357
- tedt, 2024-01-15, 15:18