It is strange how these things mutate, you start with a 357 mag, an excellent low cost to load round, ubiquitous case availability, not overly powerful, can be interchanged and fired in millions of revolvers. I have a whole stable of more expensive to load, larger, more powerful, longer range rounds that can do that. Why do we do this? You have even corrupted me, I broke down and picked up a set of 357 Herrett dies. I used to have one in a contender, killed my first handgun deer with it, a little 8 pointer that hangs on the wall behind me as I type this. My last kill was with my 357, a huge feral tom cat that has been ripping into my trash and roughing up my old 14 year old mouser that stays on my porch. The thing weighed over 15 pounds and was in great shape, he was king of his territory. I have several deer rifles I could have used, but that would just not have been right. Too dangerous, to much range, too much power. The 125 gr 357 was just right.
I still may get another 357 barrel and do the Herrett in a shorty, but the standard 357 is here to stay. Unless they make a 32/20. Then it will become a Herrett.
