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Socrates · February 23, 2008, 10:19 PM

In retrospect:
My hand is still not fully functional from the shooting session 7 days ago. Opening jars, grabbing things, has not returned to full function. I think it's death grip, combined with the recoil speed that makes this gun such a nightmare to shoot.

My hand hasn't had this kind of damage from 50 rounds of 525 grain bullets at 1350 combined, with assorted 475 rounds.

I've been rethinking the entire light weight snubby thing. When you start looking at the ballistics you get, and, the amount of blast, and noise, 45 ACP, 45 GAP, out of mini glocks, or 1911 CCO sized guns, they start looking much better.

These 357 scandiums are perhaps best suited to barely Plus P 38 loads. Even the Buffalobore.com 158's at 1040 are a real handful.

I may try the short barrel loads from them, and from Speer.

I'm planning on switching grips, to the Hogue Boot grips, and revisiting this issue, with 38 Plus P loads, and regular loads. I guess I've bought the worlds most expensive 38...

February 23, 2008, 10:19 PM	#11
Socrates Junior member Join Date: January 5, 2005 Location: East Bay NorCal, People's Republik of Kalifornia Posts: 5,866	In retrospect: My hand is still not fully functional from the shooting session 7 days ago. Opening jars, grabbing things, has not returned to full function. I think it's death grip, combined with the recoil speed that makes this gun such a nightmare to shoot. My hand hasn't had this kind of damage from 50 rounds of 525 grain bullets at 1350 combined, with assorted 475 rounds. I've been rethinking the entire light weight snubby thing. When you start looking at the ballistics you get, and, the amount of blast, and noise, 45 ACP, 45 GAP, out of mini glocks, or 1911 CCO sized guns, they start looking much better. These 357 scandiums are perhaps best suited to barely Plus P 38 loads. Even the Buffalobore.com 158's at 1040 are a real handful. I may try the short barrel loads from them, and from Speer. I'm planning on switching grips, to the Hogue Boot grips, and revisiting this issue, with 38 Plus P loads, and regular loads. I guess I've bought the worlds most expensive 38...