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The .357 Smith & Wesson Magnum, .357 S&W Magnum, .357 Magnum, or 9×33mmR (as it is known in unofficial metric designation) is a smokeless powder cartridge with a 0.357 in (9.07 mm) bullet diameter. It was created by Elmer Keith , Phillip B. Sharpe, [ 2 ] and Douglas B. Wesson [ 2 ] [ 3 ] of firearm manufacturers Smith & Wesson and Winchester .
Guns designed for the .357 Maximum were built on a larger frame than their predecessors. Although Ruger only made about 7,700 Blackhawks chambered in .357 Maximum, the frame size has been used as a base gun to build bigger revolvers in .375 SuperMag, .414 SuperMag, .445 SuperMag, .475 Linebaugh Long/Maximum, and .500 Linebaugh Long/Maximum. [9]
Apache revolver: L. Dolne à Liege 7mm Lefaucheux: 6 Belgium: 1869 only [citation needed] Arminius HW Revolver Series: Weihrauch & Weihrauch GmbH & Co. KG.22 Long Rifle.22 WMR.32 S&W Long.38 Special.357 Magnum: 8 round (HW-22) 6 (HW-38, HW-357) Germany: 1960-? Astra 680: Astra-Unceta y Cia SA.22 Long Rifle.22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire.32 Smith ...
S&W Model 28, 4 in barrel Showing stamped nomenclature on barrel unique to model 28. The Smith & Wesson (S&W) Model 28, also known as the Highway Patrolman, is an N-frame revolver chambered for the .357 Magnum cartridge, in production from 1954 to 1986.
Choosing the .357 Magnum caliber over the initially planned .38 Special further expanded its appeal and secured its status. ... a round usually seen in revolvers, into the world of rifles — and ...
Two Colt revolver variants using Python barrels but not Python frames or internals were made in small numbers by Colt. The first was the Colt Boa of 1985, a limited production run of 1,200 .357 Magnum revolvers, made for the Lew Horton Distributing Company in Massachusetts. [32] It uses a Python barrel mated to a Trooper Mk V frame. Six hundred ...
The Model 686 is based on S&W's L (medium) revolver frame. During the 1980s, Smith & Wesson developed its L-Frame line of .357 Magnums: the Model 581, Model 586, Model 681 and Model 686. The Models 581 and 681 have fixed sights, whereas the 586 and 686 use adjustable sights. [2]
The center fire MR range was completed in 1983 with the 10¾" MR 73 Silhouette chambered in .357 Magnum and the limited production, stainless steel MR 73 10-year commemorative model. [9] The rimfire MR 22 sporting revolver chambered in .22 Long Rifle and the center fire small-frame 5-shot Remora chambered in .38 Special followed in 1986. The MR ...