Does any body know or have any personal experience with any problems using Stingers in 2" 317? What I am worried about here mainly is wear on the aluminum cylinder and frame. I have one on order for use as "trainer" for my 642 and 640 (getting practice at home in garage range with CCI CBs and bullet trap.) I would also like to carry the 317 along on our walks for pest control. Hence the Stingers would be an occasional diet.

Have you ever heard of Stingers causing problems in 317s? I doubt that they'd be an issue. A call to S&W would answer your question. If I owned a 317 I wouldn't have even thought to worry. I would have just shot the things.

flop, do you think the aluminum cylinder on a 317 can take a brass brush without getting scored on the inside?

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I don't know. I would just use nylon.

If you're worried about the velocity generated by Stinger ammo but still want something that will work well in a short revolver take a look at CCI Velocitor ammo. Stingers are rated at 1640 fps and uses a 32gr bullet whereas the Velocitor rounds are rated at 1435 fps but uses a 40gr bullet. I think the heavier bullet will serve you better considering neither will give you those stated velocities from a M317.

I have enjoyed my 317 3 inch sence 1999. I have used over two bricks(1,000rds) of stingers and well over a case(5500) of the wal mart 36gr fed bulk pack. The fired cases fall out of the cyl up to around the 250 mark . I use a bore snake on the cyl and barrel and the only problem I have had is keeping the sight screw tight......great little shooter

Thanks for all the helpful comments. I emailed S&W and they had a rep email me back this morning. No problem with Stingers in aluminum cylinder. Blaze away to hearts content! I am happy this is so. Although the 317 in CB Longs is my garage bullet trap "trainer" for my other J-frames it is also a very neat carry pistol for walks down the road and around property line where threats are 4 footed and slithery critters. I can now vary it with my Bearcat as "kit gun". Bearcat isn't really a pocket gun, I have to use another holster. As I am usually already wearing pocket holster or IWB for J-frame EDC, it is handy to just slip the 317 into it for the lighter duty.

sw702.
I trust you aren't having any problems with the brass embedded in the bore snake on the aluminum cylinder.

Not a one, the snake is well worn from use on other 22 handguns. I wish they made a aluminum cyl for my 34s, 35s and 63s as they all get sticky after 100rds or so. I have sent the 34s back to S&W and they are a little better. I carry a small rock when out shooting the steel guns to bang out the stuck emptys, if I loose the rock no big deal.

I use QuikShok ammo (Stinger with a high tech bullet) in my 317's.
They crony at 1080fps in the 2" and 1150fps in the 3"
I do not feed them a solid diet of HV, though.
The CCI Blazer seem to work well at normal velocities.

I did have a problem with low velocity target ammo brass backing out and locking the cylinder.
Removing all traces of lube in the charge holes fixed it.

Ol' M&P

Hadn't run into that yet, I really dry out the cylinder and bore with patches before firing or carrying anyways, probably have already remedied problem. The 317 is rapidly becoming my "take a walk" and "sit out on the deck" gun. Around here BGs don't seem to go after anybody outside in neighborhood who can see them coming. They like dark and sleepy times. Eight Stingers is more than enough firepower for "yard pests" (we are in rural area) and the gun is so light I forget it is there.

Ol MP thanks for posting the FPS on the quickshok; some times folks tend to forget the volocity on the box is from a rifle barrel not a short barrel hand gun. Ahhh darn it I wanted 1640 FPS out of my 7 inch Mark 3 Ruger, Oh well its still faster than the subsonics are going, I wonder what they would chrony?