.357 Sig

BrassMonkey · Post by **BrassMonkey** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:19 am

Dear Lord Jesus in Heaven!!!

I stood next to a guy shooting .357sig today. I want one. That makes the biggest book out of a normal lookin handgun I have ever seen... I would literally feel it inside my skull and eyeballs. like a wave. My vision blurred from righgt to left a couple of times then got fixed as the "echo" went away. Is this loudest normal round out there?

MoJo · Post by **MoJo** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:33 am

No but close - - - A 125 gr .357 Magnum out of a 2" barrel is worse. But, who's keeping score?

Diode · Post by **Diode** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 6:24 am

357 Sig is a harsh bang but I agree the .357 Magnum has a very distinct cracking sound. My new .41 Magnum loaded up with 20 gr. of Winchester 239
is close.

I remember being at Sportsman's in Humble with my friends and one of them brought his Smith 500..... That is one insane bang at an inside range. When it went off everyone on the line stopped shooting.

eagleeye · Post by **eagleeye** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:20 am

You will not enjoy that bang near as much when you have to buy the ammo.

What I used to buy for $8.99 is now $20+.

I am look at a 40 cal. barrel to save a few bucks.

The 357sig does have the bang and speed I like, just not the price of use.

HighVelocity · Post by **HighVelocity** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:14 am

A 10mm is quite noisy too.

CHL/LEO · Post by **CHL/LEO** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:40 am

I am look at a 40 cal. barrel to save a few bucks.

Why not get a 9mm barrel and save a lot of money?

Xander · Post by **Xander** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:36 pm

BrassMonkey wrote: Is this loudest normal round out there?

Yeah...What the other guys said. My .357 Sig is loud, but nowhere near as loud as my .357 Magnum, which makes me regret not double-plugging every time I shoot it.

-Xander

casingpoint · Post by **casingpoint** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:38 pm

"You will not enjoy that bang near as much when you have to buy the ammo"

You won't have to buy much ammo for a 357 SIG. If it shoots right out of the box, one or two mags is probably sufficient to test for failures to feed and eject on account of the necked-down cartridge.Then park it for those Decisive Moments. Keep your old nine around for practice on the cheap.

Xander · Post by **Xander** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:53 pm

And if by "normal round", you include the relatively common handgun hunting rounds, you'll almost certainly get very big bangs out of the .44 Magnum, .454 Casull, .460 S&W, .500 S&W, along with others.

Humanphibian · Post by **Humanphibian** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:23 pm

Squeeze off a couple of full tilt boogie 357's in a confined space (even with muffs on) and you may not think it's the greatest thing in the world!

The 357 SIG does have a very distinct "Crack" vs. i would say a "pop" or "boom" common to other rounds. It seems to permeate my muffs far more than other rounds (including rifle rounds)

NcongruNt · Post by **NcongruNt** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:07 am

MoJo wrote:No but close - - - A 125 gr .357 Magnum out of a 2" barrel is worse. But, who's keeping score?

Yeah, I was in the lane next to a guy with one of these on Saturday. I think it was the side blast that bothered me more than the sound, though.

westernamerican · Post by **westernamerican** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:51 pm

Love my G32!

ELB · Post by **ELB** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:49 pm

I compared .357 Sig and .357 Mag one after the other one day (as well as .40 S&W and 9mm Parabellum). I didn't think the .357 Sig was much different from the .40 S&W in the noise and recoil department, but the Magnum definitely won the barkng contest.

I used .357 Sig 124 gr JHP/XTP "Custom", and .357 Mag 125 gr JHP/XTP, out of my FN Hi Power and my S&W Model 19. The Hi Power (with an EFK Firedragon) barrel is a bit over 4 inches, and the Model 19 had a four inch barrel. The Sig round was faster thru the chronograph; both of them penetrated into wetpack approx the same distance (average 11 inches) and the expanded bullets looked identical.

My dog was (verbally) confined to the porch about 30 yards away while I was shooting. He sat thru the .357 sig (and the .40 and the 9), but when I cranked off the first magnum round, he got up. Second round, he got off the porch. Third round, he went to the other side of the house and stayed there.

elb

Xander · Post by **Xander** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:11 pm

ELB wrote:I compared .357 Sig and .357 Mag one after the other one day (as well as .40 S&W and 9mm Parabellum). I didn't think the .357 Sig was much different from the .40 S&W in the noise and recoil department, but the Magnum definitely won the barkng contest.

Out of curiosity, what were you shooting out of the .40? In my own admittedly unscientific and not particularly rigorous observations, it seems to me that that the hotter 155gr rounds have a far closer signature to the 125gr .357 Sig rounds that I shoot than the 180gr rounds which seem to be significantly tamer.

ELB wrote: I used .357 Sig 124 gr JHP/XTP "Custom", and .357 Mag 125 gr JHP/XTP, out of my FN Hi Power and my S&W Model 19. The Hi Power (with an EFK Firedragon) barrel is a bit over 4 inches, and the Model 19 had a four inch barrel. The Sig round was faster thru the chronograph; both of them penetrated into wetpack approx the same distance (average 11 inches) and the expanded bullets looked identical.

That was the goal of the round...So that's good to hear!

-Xander

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