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I just bought a 1973 Security Six 6" in good shape, and need to buy some ammo for playing around. I see Prvi Partizan 158 ammo online for a very reasonable price. Is this decent ammo? I've read mainly positive reviews. The 1600fps velocity is pretty high considering it's cheap, and 158g bullets.
.357 magnum is the high end of .38 Special ammo pressure wise. It progresses in this fashion...38 Spcl, .38 Spcl +P, .38 Spcl +P+, .357 Magnum. In other words...your .357 is designed to shoot higher pressure loads.
That having been said, a .357 magnum should be more than adequate to protect you from a black bear. Most articles written on this subject seem to suggest using heavy 180 grain hunting ammo, either lead flat point, semi-jacketed soft-points, or even 165 grain Core-lokts.
double tapp ammo is always fine on the 10mm, true to box specs for me. but swamp fox is as hot as you can safely get. he has a 800 ft pound ME load for the 10mm, listed in the "supported chamber only" catagory of nosler 10mm 135 grain. korth revolver or coonan auto, coupled with swamp fox .357 ammo is the match made in heaven
Well that depends, In the wifes "J" frame we generally stick to a +P 158 LSWCHP, in my 3" I use the same load, In a 4 or 6 inch "L" or "N" frame or GP100 I tend to go with a 158 SJSWCHP full .357, or a 135 JHP, whichever the gun prefers, unless I am "In the Bush" in which case I like the Remington 158gn JSP load, Now in my 4' "K Frames" I tend to go with a 145-158 gn bullet in a magnum loading ...
In that sense, yes, target ammo refers to "not hollow point". Now, if you can buy hollow point for the same price as FMJ, it than becomes "target ammo". With a .357, you have an even better option, which is to practice with .38 special. Assuming you are using a revolver, you can fire 38 special in a .357 magnum revolver.
I shoot the .357 Magnums at a distance of 60ft./20yrds. to target, and my reloads are full magnum with a CCI Magnum primer. They do massive damage to the target they hit. (water jugs, 2x4's etc Recoil is nowhere like the older factory I used to buy. (Federal 125gr. Magnums) Somehow, I feel cheated by that.
In 1986 Ed Sanow performed a test using various .38 Super ammo on two different .357 Magnum revolvers, SW and Colt (different twist rates) and he concluded. A. You can safely shoot .38 Super in a .357 Mag revolver. (not in a .38 Special gun even if it is +p). It will fit in both guns.
I suspect that Remington's mild 125 grain .357 is a good load for K-frame S&W's, but I don't fire enough .357's in my M-66-3 to make me worry. My GP-100 is beefier, but I still don't routinely practice with a lot of Magnum ammo. The .357 is for KILLING, not for routine paper punching or can rolling.
Just found a great site showing ballistics testing. Brass fetcher.com. Click on handgun, then look at Speer short barrel ammo for 38 and 357. Big difference in 357. This is the kind of factual testing I was looking for!