Have a thought about building an Encore rifle barrel in 357 Mag. I would like it to have a fairly fast twist for heavy long boolits. My desire is for a 200+ grain boolit at subsonic speed in a short barrel that eventually will receive a suppressor.
Uses for this will be mainly target shooting without ear protection ... hunting medium and small game. This would be a single shot survival type weapon chambered in the easy to acquire 357 Magnum cartridges.
Do not want nor desire the 357 maximum. Higher power or higher velocity. Pretty much sold on the Magnum chamber.
This will be either a stub barrel or lined ... however have not ruled out a rebore by someone using a 223 barrel for the base barrel as the extractor and basic chamber is very close ... however I think a bull type barrel would be shizz nizz also.
This would also be a short barrel ... say 16 or 18 inch long.
Anybody thought or developed this type of a project? Loads? Heaviest boolits?