Question about the 357mag Contender

[Dogmann]

What kind of velocities are you guys with 10inch contenders getting out of Factory 357magnum loadings? Is the 357mag in a 10inch TC  capable of One shot kills on  whitetails?

[no guns here]

I always have to go back to a .50 muzzleloader with a round ball.  That load and others that were even lighter were standards for 100 years.  That's a 179 grain round ball and less speed (I believe) than a good .357 load.  If you can kill it with the roundball .50, you can kill it with a .357.  Better rounds?  Yes.  But used judiciously it'll work.

ngh

[Gregory]

What kind of velocities are you guys with 10inch contenders getting out of Factory 357magnum loadings? Is the 357mag in a 10inch TC  capable of One shot kills on  whitetails?

Killed one small doe with a 357 Mag out of my 10" Contender, 1200 or so fps 170 gr cast SWC.  It worked fine.

[ted]

This is what I have gotten out of my 10" T/C with a chrony and factory ammo.
 Remington UMC (yellow box) 125 sp = 1912 f.p.s avg. This would be way too light a bulletIMO to use on a deer at this velocity. For some reason the UMC 125 seem to be a hot load compared to the winchester and Federals 125's I have chronied(they average about 100 f.p.s. less. I am curious if anyone else has noticed this with the UMC factory 125's. The ammo above is the only factory stuff I have schronied. The other are reloads and I have gotten the following...
 16 gr. AA #9 with 125 Hornady xp/hp= 1811 f.p.s
 15 gr. Lil'Gun with 180 Hornady xp/hp= 1456 f.ps
 12.9 AA#9 with    180 Hornady xp/hp= 1453 f.p.s
 I had some data for 18 gr. Lil'Gun with the 158 fp/hp but, can't seem to find it.
  I used both the 158 and 180 to hunt with unfortunately, I was not able to get a deer so I can't tell you personally how these performed on deer but, have only read good things about how they have done and that is why I picked them to use.