CrossRifles2008
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Would you load Federal Hydra Shock 357s in your 19-4?
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Federal Hydra Shocks In a 19-4
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Texas Star
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Would you load Feral Hydra Shock 357s in your 19-4?
"Feral" Hydra-Shoks? Sounds "wild", man!
(Please don't correct the typo; that's too good a joke to ruin.)
Yeah, sure: I use them in my M-66-3, the 158 grain JHP .357 ones. And have sometimes loaded the 129 grain .38 ones in my house .38's.
BTW, a Federal PR man once told me that the .357 version is a quite good deer load at handgun ranges.
I find them to be very accurate. I don't think the .38 version is as advanced and hot as the Speer Gold Dot, but think it'd do at average combat ranges. Probably would be effective on animals to big raccoon size. I'd use more on coyotes-up, but the .357 HS is there for that.
Why wouldn't you use them? That's good ammo, for which your gun is intended! Of course you don't want to shoot ANY full .357 load in a K-frame magnum all the time. It'll loosen them up sooner than if you use .38 ammo most of the time. But when you want .357 power, use them.
T-Star
"Feral" Hydra-Shoks? Sounds "wild", man!
(Please don't correct the typo; that's too good a joke to ruin.)Yeah, sure: I use them in my M-66-3, the 158 grain JHP .357 ones. And have sometimes loaded the 129 grain .38 ones in my house .38's.
BTW, a Federal PR man once told me that the .357 version is a quite good deer load at handgun ranges.
I find them to be very accurate. I don't think the .38 version is as advanced and hot as the Speer Gold Dot, but think it'd do at average combat ranges. Probably would be effective on animals to big raccoon size. I'd use more on coyotes-up, but the .357 HS is there for that.
Why wouldn't you use them? That's good ammo, for which your gun is intended! Of course you don't want to shoot ANY full .357 load in a K-frame magnum all the time. It'll loosen them up sooner than if you use .38 ammo most of the time. But when you want .357 power, use them.
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Babalooie
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I use Hydra-Shok ammo in all my defensive guns.
Knightrider03m
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Don't see how it would hurt it.
Bdouthet
Member
from what I was told you can shoot full 357 mag loads of todays ammo in the model 19 and 66 no problem. Saami Changed the specs from 45,000 cup to 35,000psi, so the problem was before the early 1990's the K type fame had trouble with being fired all the time with the 125gr bullet loaded up at 45,000cup( a hot load)
