000 buck (.360 round ball) in a 38 Spl / 357 Mag ?

[CTI1USNRET]

Has anyone ever tried loading a .360 round ball in a 38 Spl / 357 Mag?

The ball weighs 70 grains and would get 224 ft-lb energy at 1200 fps.

[Outpost75]

Point of impact is way low with single ball. Better to load two.

[Nobade]

I've got a top break H&R revolver that has the cylinder bored straight through for a heeled bullet. I found out a 357 mag case will fit without sticking out the end so I started loading those with .360" balls and 15 grains of black powder. It works tolerably well but I couldn't tell you how fast they go. Probably 600 fps or so, not incredibly powerful but I wouldn't want to be hit by one.

[John McCorkle]

Has anyone ever tried loading a .360 round ball in a 38 Spl / 357 Mag?

The ball weighs 70 grains and would get 224 ft-lb energy at 1200 fps.I think the limiting factor is that there is as little bearing surface as you can get and still seal the bore. Unless you have a custom barrel with a super slow twist, pushing it anywhere close to that 1200 fps mark will strip the rifling and all bets are off as far as where that little dude will go. You'd likely get alot of gas blowby with the pressure needed to get it that fast too.

Several posts out there with people trying it...and it's a fun go for rabbit and squirrels but iirc they are slow and not terribly accurate

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[GhostHawk]

First I agree with Outpost, load 2.

I do know that a #1 buck below a 00 buck run through a .314 sizer dies works just fine in a .32sw long.

Shoots to the sights, aprox 1 inch between the 2 impacts.

When I tested it the top larger buck tended to hit about 2 oclock, the #1 would hit about 10 oclock.

Shot at a rabbit head they'd both hit.