“Tag: .357”

The .357 Mag. is 75 years old, and Smith & Wesson is celebrating this important anniversary with a limited edition Model 27.

Accurate training and self-defense loads can be easily created for these popular revolver calibers.

Smith & Wesson 386 Night Guard Review

The new SP101 in .357 Mag. features a 4.2-inch barrel, engraved walnut grip panels and HiViz sights.

When the automatic pistol was a fresh new concept, designers of that time faced the same problem that modern designers also face—feeding. Since the slide and breech face of a pistol are directly behind the chamber end of the barrel, the pistol magazine has to be below and behind the chamber.

For 32 years—from 1954 until 1986—the best deal in the Smith & Wesson catalog was the Model 28, a revolver built on the N frame and chambered for the .357 Mag. cartridge.

In past years, various writing projects have caused me to research a couple of cartridges with similar sounding names—the .357 Mag. and the .357 Sig.

In the very earliest days of International Handgun Metallic Silhouette Association, one of its founding gurus, the late Elgin gates, designed some new cartridges for the sport.

The Coonan is a powerful, high-performance handgun that is not meant to be a first handgun.