I had an early Marlin .357 that I bought new when they came out. It was very picky about feeding - I determined that it was the overall length of the cartridge that mattered most.
It would not feed any brand of .38 ammo I tried, but I shot a lot of it at the range by single loading.
Lead bullets almost always keyholed because of the "micro groove" rifling.
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6/23/2022
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