Just wondering if any of you .357 fanatics would have a picture of the ammo that would have been standard for that caliber in 1950?
Appreciate it..
Chuck

Chuck, This link provides a picture of "Western" .357 ammo & box...I'll keep looking for others....

http://www.cartridgecollectors.org/f...6fbfef616cab2b

JC thanks for always looking out for me.
Chuck

Are you looking for photos of boxes, or are you wanting to know what the cartridge would have looked like?

Looks like others are going to find boxes for you, there were several manufacturers even then.

I believe I have one cartridge from that period but no picture handy. I can describe it to you. Typically it would have been a Nickel plated case loaded with a modified Thompson SWCGC swaged lead bullet. The bullet is similar to the well known Keith style except for being seated to the shoulder with a smaller diameter nose rounded toward the flat point. If Remington/Peters it would be bare lead, while if Winchester or Western it would be "Luballoy" (copper washed).

Alk8944, thanks a lot. What I should have asked for is a picture of a box along with a couple of the rounds. I've found a Western example already, but wwould like to see what the Remington box of that day looked like. I'm assuming it is the dogbone , Kleanbore style.
Chuck

Thread drift


I know that a lot of our older members, like me, have fired factory .357 like that being dicussed, but I'm sure most of our youngins' haven't.

I bought a used M27 in 1976 to do a .44 Special conversion. It was a 3 1/2" blue, "S" serial numbered. Before I sent it off for the conversion, I decided to shoot it. I ran a box of those swaged SWC through it and when I got done, the the interior of the barrel looked like a smoothbore! I could barely make out the lands and grooves.

Thank God for hardcast and jacketed bullets!

BTW, even though I "destroyed" a collectible, I now have one of the best shooting revolvers that I have ever held in my hands.

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Chuck
If you go to Ray Giles' website you may be able to find something out there He also has a book on ammo (it may be just Winchester) that is pretty informative.

Chuck:
The Remington flavor should be the box at the bottom of the attached pic. Peters' box would most likely have been similar to the pre-war design that is shown in some of the RM posts. A couple of folks have told me that instead of the red, blunt-ended lozenge which contains either HIGH VELOCITY or RUSTLESS on the Peters box, the 1950 to early 60s design would have been a squared off red banner that runs the breadth of the box's face. I have seen this design in some other calibers, mostly rifle, but never in the .357 Magnum.
Winchester farmed their .357 Magnum ammo out to Western after the consolidation with Olin in about 1945 and didn't make this caliber to the best of my knowledge in the 1950 time period.
Ed

Ed, thanks a bunch. I see what I'm looking for now.
Chuck