.357 Magnum Carry: Everyday Carry Pocket Dump of the Day
The EDC du jour of a systems architect in Georgia includes a Ruger LCR in .357 Magnum and a CRKT M16-13T. It always warms my heart to see a revolver as part of someone’s EDC.
Calibers for Beginners: .357 Magnum
The .357 Magnum is a relatively misunderstood cartridge in today’s shooting world. It’s powerful, wonderfully effective, and probably one of the best all-around calibers ever made. But it’s both a great and a terrible beginner’s cartridge, depending on the load and the gun that it’s used in. On the plus side, a novice has the […]
Coming Soon: Dan Wesson 715 Review
SHOT Show is going to delay my writing of the Dan Wesson 715 revolver review. As there was a decent amount of interest in Dan Wesson’s return to the wheel gun game here in the comments under a few CZ-related articles, in addition to Chris Dumm’s proverbial shot over CZ’s bow nearly a year ago, […]
Gun Review: Smith & Wesson Model 60 .357 Magnum (Take Two)
When I wrapped my hands around the diminutive Smith & Wesson Model 60, my first thought was “Honey, I Shrunk The 686!” As I turned it over in my hands, I started to wonder if Rick Moranis had accidentally pointed his shrink-ray at a real gun, because the Model 60 looks and feels like a […]
Gun Review: Ruger LCR .357 Revolver
A wise old man once told me that real pistols only came in one configuration: blued steel and walnut grips. The very same man bandied about phrases like “nickel plated sissy pistol” and believed that the .45 ACP was the alpha and omega. When “combat tupperware” started to become en vogue he thought it was […]
The Event and the ‘Stopping Power’ of the Mighty .380
DVRs are great. No more are we held hostage to the autocratic whims of the networks. So I was watching last week’s episode of The Event (hey…I’ve been busy) when one of the characters gives one of the others a pistol, telling him “We’ve chosen a .380 for it’s stopping power, and low-power cartridges so […]
