357 125g JSP

[BrianE]

I picked up some Remington 125g .357 JSP at wal-mart. How are these rounds? Havent seen too much about them. I got them to try out in my Ruger SP101 2".

 

[andre73]

I have shot these and they are fairly hot rounds, but being a soft point I wouldn't reccommend them for defense. Good practice ammo though.

 

[BrianE]

andre73, thank you. I did buy them as a practice round for my Ruger sp101. Just havent seen too much about them, but I now know they should not be used for a defense ammo. I had never put any .357 rounds through the Ruger, so I seen these and they were least expensive out of the .357 they had a available, so I figured what the heck.....

 

[Knightrider03m]

I was looking at that ammo for SD when I get my .357. From my research, those are great rounds but I would take a look at Speer Gold Dot HP in 125gr.

 

[amd6547]

I just bought some of this 125gn SP ammo at walmart myself. Should be interesting to see how it does in my 686-1 4".

 

[Krull]

I can best describe this stuff this way:loud and noisy,didn't try them at night but you set one off and you'll KNOW you just fired the gun.

Recoil I can't/won't comment on since I'm just numb to it now-hell I started with a .22 short but by the time I was 13 or so I was shooting off a .44 mag,now I'm playing with a .460 snub so.....meh I may not find the recoil bad and you may be crying like a little girl after one load through.

And the gun I used for this was a 686 2 1/2 BTW.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

While a JSP bullet won't expand as easily as a JHP bullet will in a pinch there's nothing wrong with using a 125gr JSP bullet traveling at high velocities as a SD round. (I think they are @1290 fps) At the velocities they are pushed they will expand, not as much as a JHP but enough to stop the bad guy...