10 Truths About .357 Magnum Ammo Most Owners Never Know

10 Truths About .357 Magnum Ammo Most Owners Never Know THE BENCH BOOK + 2 TOOLS → https://dylanbenett.com A man named Roland Achterberg brought a revolver to my counter in June that had locked up solid on the third shot, and two people had already told him it was broken. He is sixty-three. It was a little five shot three fifty-seven, one of the very light ones, under a pound empty. He bought it to carry, the way a lot of men his age do, because it is small and it is simple and a revolver is supposed to always work. He had owned it for two years and never fired a single magnum through it. Practice was always with thirty-eight specials, because they were cheaper and they did not hurt. Then one Saturday he decided he should know what his carry load felt like. So he loaded five of the heavy magnums he actually carried, fired two, and on the third pull the trigger would not move. The cylinder would not turn. Nothing. The range officer looked at it and told him the timing was gone. Broken revolver, send it back to the factory. On the way home, Roland stopped at a shop, and the man there offered to buy it from him as a parts gun, for about what he would pay for a nice dinner out. I asked him one question, which was what bullet weight was on the box of his carry ammunition. He did not know. And then I asked him if he had ever read the side of his barrel, and he said he did not know there was anything on it to read. There was. And it is number one on this list. We are going through ten things about three fifty-seven magnum ammunition that most owners have never been told. It is one of the most loved cartridges in America, and it is one of the most misunderstood, because people think they know it from the movies. Do not skip ahead. Number one is the reason Roland's revolver locked up, it is not what the range officer thought, and it takes ten seconds to check on your own gun. I am Dylan Bennett. I run the service bench at a gun shop, which means I see what happens to revolvers after the movie is over, and I see how often nobody told the owner. One note before we start, and I mean it. Nothing in this video is legal advice, and the law on firearms, and especially on carrying them, varies from state to state. Talk to somebody in your state who does this for a living. Let us get to it. Number ten. The first three fifty-seven magnums came with a certificate. The cartridge came out in nineteen thirty-five, from Smith and Wesson working with Winchester, and the first revolvers built for it were something close to custom guns.