Thoughts on .357Sig?
I know what Gunnit thinks of the 10mm and the .40S&W, but I haven't heard any thoughts on the .357sig, so just curious what the hivemind's opinion of this round is.
Posted Mar 4, 2011, 10:41 PM UTC
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decent ballistics, but expensive as hell. Even if you're reloading the brass don't last as long (due to bottleneck) as other pistol cartridges. I'd avoid.
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Plus bottleneck cartridges are a little bit more difficult when handloading, and you have to keep an eye of case length if you do get repeated reloads.
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I keep my glock 27 loaded up with .357 Sig in a Lone Wolf barrel. The sample size of people I've shot with it is zero, but in my experience the difference in recoil is negligible, at least as far as follow-up shots are concerned. The G27 is a snappy little pistol with any load.
I like the velocity, I like the (reported) penetration... I don't like the cost, or the fact that a home reloader like myself can't put a good crimp on the bottleneck. So it's not a practice round, that's for sure.
All I have to go by are the data from police shootings, which seem to suggest that the sum of the .357 Sig is greater than its parts. On paper, it looks no better than a really hot 9mm, but its actual performance seems more in line with what its marketers were going for when they named a .355 bullet a .357.
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Right. It's a good round, but not great enough to justify the cost difference unless you're rich.
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The main complaint I've heard about them is the way the bullet is seated. Particularly in duty-guns, the constant jostling and banging of the rounds in the magazine can loosen the round up at the neck of the cartridge.
A couple police stations around me tried them out. To the best of my knowledge, they went back to other weapons.
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Its primary advantage over the .40 is that it shoots flatter. Inside of typical pistol engagement distances, that won't matter. It's a really cool cartridge mostly because bottleneck pistol cartridges are unusual, but I don't see any reason for most people to choose it over the .40.
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10mm> .357 Sig > 9mm> .40S&W
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Me, i've never shot a .357 in anything but my Blackhawk,for me, i think in a semi auto config. re-aquiring the target might be a issue.
Im pretty good with the load on the revolver. For my money a .357 is harder to control that a .45 1911. That's just me.
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No.
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trolls correcting trolls. great.
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.357sig, not .357magnum.
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It's a fine round, but 9mm+P is almost as speedy, has a higher capacity, is available in more guns, and is significantly less expensive. Cheaper practice means better shooting. Better shooting = shawt play smint. And that's ossim.
Yaz need shawt play smint when yas pahkin' ya cah, amirite?
God, that was hard to write.
Speaking of necked cartridges, what ever happened to the 7.62x25mm?
It's still around...kinda.
exactly!