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Old 04-21-2013, 01:54 AM
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.357 SIG, like a lot of high velocity cartridges, loses a lot out of short barrels. Out of a barrel less than 4" you might as well just go with a 9mm+P. It really shines out of longer barrels but hardly anyone takes advantage of that, say with a Glock 35 with a .357 SIG barrel.

I would tend to agree with the previous poster that the round was mostly marketing since there was no expressed need for the cartridge. At least the .40 S&W was for a niche that the FBI created --- although with better bullets these days you're getting the same levels of performance from a 9mm as you would from a .40 S&W JHP bought in 1990. It's funny that so many LE agencies are coming back to the 100+ year old 9mm for the same reasons they went whole hog in the 70s and 80s: more ammo on deck, less recoil, very manageable in a full sized gun.
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