Question For Those Of You Who Have .357 Lever Guns: - The Firearms Forum

JohnnyFlake · 03-10-2012, 04:34 PM

What is your favorite roll your own load - powder - grains & bullet?

What is the effective range for your load, on pigs or small/medium deer out of an 18"/20" barrel?

gdmoody · 03-10-2012, 09:25 PM

I have a Winchester 94AE in .357, the load I use mostly for it is a 125 grain Hornady XTP bullet with 18.5 grains of Hodgden H110. I also load a 125 grain Berry's Bullet with 10.4 grains of Accurate #7. I also shoot both loads through my Dan Wesson revolver.

Little Rooster · 03-11-2012, 09:53 PM

I shoot a Marlin older model before the croosbolt safety. I like 158 lead cast over full case fffg black powder. Range is a hundred yards if needed. Smokeless I still use 158 grain and follow the powder reccomendations usually towards the upper end. I have used this gun for ground hogs and other varmit.

Been wanting to try some Hornaday XTP in it

LDBennett · 03-12-2012, 07:51 AM

JohnnyFlake:

Most modern reloading manuals have a rifle section for 357MAG. Don't use any reloading data handed out by friends or acquaintances or as seen on the internet unless you can find that exact load in a reloading manual.

I prefer to shoot 125 grain jacketed bullets (Hornady XTP) near 2000 FPS. I find AA#7 does a accurate job. At those speeds if you do not use jacketed bullets you will end up with a leaded up barrel. But my aim is accurate shooting on paper and killing cans, not hunting. While my load may work for hunting I have no idea if it will (??). This load works great in my real Winchester 92 and My Browning clone 92 levers. Refer to the Hornady reloading manual for details.

LDBennett

carver · 03-12-2012, 08:08 AM

AA No.9, 158gr. HDY XTP, min load of 12.4gr. for 1,202fps, or max load of 13.8grs, for 1,367fps, these bullets are fired from a 6 inch barrel. I don't own a chronograph, so all I can say is that a rifle should produce more bullet speed with the same load used in a pistol. Please take the advice of LD Bennett, it is the advice I will give also. Any .357 mag load will kill deer, or pigs, with no problem if the bullet is placed right.

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gdmoody Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northeast Georgia Contributor Posts: 6,358	Re: Question For Those Of You Who Have .357 Lever Guns: I have a Winchester 94AE in .357, the load I use mostly for it is a 125 grain Hornady XTP bullet with 18.5 grains of Hodgden H110. I also load a 125 grain Berry's Bullet with 10.4 grains of Accurate #7. I also shoot both loads through my Dan Wesson revolver. __________________ NRA Endowment Member GeorgiaCarry.Org Member Retired US Army Postal Worker Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass whoopin'.....author unknown (but obviously brilliant)

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Little Rooster Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Old Dominion Posts: 564	Re: Question For Those Of You Who Have .357 Lever Guns: I shoot a Marlin older model before the croosbolt safety. I like 158 lead cast over full case fffg black powder. Range is a hundred yards if needed. Smokeless I still use 158 grain and follow the powder reccomendations usually towards the upper end. I have used this gun for ground hogs and other varmit. Been wanting to try some Hornaday XTP in it __________________ "Far better it is to dare mighty things, than to take rank with those poor, timid spirits who know Victory Nor Defeat" Teddy Roosevelt Last edited by Little Rooster; 03-11-2012 at 09:55 PM..

03-12-2012, 07:51 AM	#4
LDBennett Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Hesperia, CA Posts: 5,719	Re: Question For Those Of You Who Have .357 Lever Guns: JohnnyFlake: Most modern reloading manuals have a rifle section for 357MAG. Don't use any reloading data handed out by friends or acquaintances or as seen on the internet unless you can find that exact load in a reloading manual. I prefer to shoot 125 grain jacketed bullets (Hornady XTP) near 2000 FPS. I find AA#7 does a accurate job. At those speeds if you do not use jacketed bullets you will end up with a leaded up barrel. But my aim is accurate shooting on paper and killing cans, not hunting. While my load may work for hunting I have no idea if it will (??). This load works great in my real Winchester 92 and My Browning clone 92 levers. Refer to the Hornady reloading manual for details. LDBennett

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carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,295	Re: Question For Those Of You Who Have .357 Lever Guns: AA No.9, 158gr. HDY XTP, min load of 12.4gr. for 1,202fps, or max load of 13.8grs, for 1,367fps, these bullets are fired from a 6 inch barrel. I don't own a chronograph, so all I can say is that a rifle should produce more bullet speed with the same load used in a pistol. Please take the advice of LD Bennett, it is the advice I will give also. Any .357 mag load will kill deer, or pigs, with no problem if the bullet is placed right. __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.