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Ohio Rusty
06-04-2011, 10:15 AM
OMG I love this thing !! It is a S&W model 360. Scandium frame steel barrel insert and a steel cylinder like the 442, only chambered for .357. A 13 ounce bundle of bang !! Our local hardware store is also the FFL. While in the hardware store getting the pistol finalized, sitting on the shelf was a can of JPW. Just down from that was a lone box of copper chore boy scrubbers. So I bought both of those along with the pistol.

I loaded up some 38's and had them in the gun for a few days. Last night I loaded some 125 grain .357's and have them in the gun now. They aren't full power house loads, but like a midrange .357. I'
I'm looking forward to throwing boolits down range with this snubby. I've always been enamored of the .357, and this one I know will quickly be one of my favorites. As a ccw piece, I'll definitely not be undergunned.
Ohio Rusty ><>

bhn22
06-04-2011, 12:11 PM
You're a better man than I am. A friend bought one of these, and we took it out to play. Full power 357 mag loads were like having a Cherry Bomb go off in our hands. I thought my 649 was rough, but the 360 make it seem pretty tame. My friend took the gun home, cleaned it, and it hasn't left the safe since. He carries a 442 now.

redneckdan
06-04-2011, 12:17 PM
OMG I love this thing !!



So I take it you haven't fired it yet.....:kidding:

Ohio Rusty
06-04-2011, 12:32 PM
Not with the .357's yet. The 38's were 155 grain cast 358439 HP's over 4.5 grains of Unique .... same load I shot in my LCR. Snappy, but easily controllable. I'll put the 357's thru it this weekend. Even the low end .357's are faster than the 38's of the same boolit weight in +P according to load data. I'm not overly recoil sensitive, but I probably won't run earth shattering 357 load thru the gun. That is the great thing about reloading ... you can design the load that is best for you both recoil and accuracy wise.
Ohio Rusty ><>

357 Voodoo
06-04-2011, 12:38 PM
I shot one of thoes last weekend. it was great with 38's or real mild 357's. Then my dumb self decided to drop is some of my full house h110 backed 358429's nope not again that hurt.

MtGun44
06-04-2011, 04:48 PM
My S&W 342 .38 Spl Airweight (12 oz) with hot .38 Spl factory 158gr is very unpleasant to
shoot. I do shoot my S&W 329 with full power .44 Mag loads, which is also unpleasant,
but not as much of a pure high velocity smack as the 342. After the 342 with full
power .38s, I would turn down an offer to shoot full power .357 Mag 158 gr in an Airweight.

Bill

bhn22
06-04-2011, 08:00 PM
You have got to try factory 145 gr Winchester Silvertips in it. No gloves now...