Smokin'

A Serious .357 magnum load.

Double-Tap is once again offering a woods-load. A 200 grain WFNGC doing 1200 fps from a 4" barrel, and this is close to the max for .357 ballistics for those who do not roll their own.

One of the enjoyable things about this pastime of ours, is that at any given time there are several trends happening all at once. Winchester offers a .44 magnum that propels a 210 grain bullet at 1250 fps from the same 4 inches of tube, while boutique's such as Double-Tap crank out .357's that nearly equal the old warhorse.

Also, they've reacquired enough of Speer's 158 grain Gold Dots to provide those effective hollowpoint rounds, the still popular tweener's for when 125 is too puny and 200 is best served to the likes of mountain cats. My hysterical email to them several months back was quickly responded to with the plea for patience, and they've made good on their word.

Now if McNett would only listen to me and get his hands on some of Federal's HST bullets, I would place an order for caseloads to feed my .40's with 180 grains of bodacious hellfire to the tune of 1150 or so fps from a G-23, and punching 1" holes with those darlings would do my heart a world of good.

I can dream, so what.