Spending a bit of time with my 357's. Always thought that heavy 180 grain + boolits should do well in the 357 mag revolver for deer hunting and such.
With the heavy 200ish boolits , the inertia and penetrating power should do well on deer size critters on the par of 44's and 45's. Trotting along at 800+ FPS and limiting range to 70 or 80 yards , I would recon that these pills will do dandy on these critters.
Noise should be lessened in comparison to the 140's and 150's shoved outta the barrel at 1300 or so do. That sharp crack should be replaced with more of a booming it seems to me.
I have not experimented yet on account of no molds ... but if accuracy would hold ... I see a 200 grain soup can lookin boolit as well as a 220 grain soup can boolit from Tom @accurate molds that I would like to try.
Anybody able to help educate me and others that have contemplated this venture?
My Ruger's in GP100 guise seem able to withstand this kinda load with ease. I really like the GP as it is way sturdy and the last one I got has a unfluted cylinder wich makes me even more comfy with this thought.