Interesting ammo

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Going through stuff to be moved and came across 2 boxes of Rem .357 Mag 158gr FMJ!

I've seen 130 gr FMJ by Winchester but never any 158 grain, so I bought these in the early 80's at a small gun shop. The owner had marked them down to a give away price. I asked why and he told me that the ammo had been in stock since the Vietnam war. Since the military said no hollow points FMJ had to be used. Evidently some of the personal guns used by combatants were in .357. I know a lot of Naval aviators had M13's and due to demand Remington started manufacturing .357 FMJ.

He said families would buy it and ship it to sons in VN.
 

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those became popular with the handgun silhouette shooting crowd. had enough energy at distance. Speer started availability of 357 160 and 180gr FMJ projectiles for the sport back then.
 
Most likely if you pull a bullet you will find it is "Metal Capped" just like the label says. A lead bearing surface with a gilding metal cap just from approximately the case mouth over the nose. They are not FMJ. They have nothing to do with Viet Nam, this bullet style was available from very early in the history of the .357 magnum cartridge. They are similar to the same period "Metal Penetrating" bullet that was the same except the cap was conical instead of a round nose profile.

You have heard the "Buy the gun, not the story"? Same with this.
 
Like I said above the price was give away! I bought three boxes of full
power .357 Magnum for the price of one box of Fed 357-B (125 gr 1400 ft/sec).
I bought all eight boxes total that he had.

This is what is left!

The metal penetrating .357 I've seen was steel jacketed not copper. My ex FBI Father had a
few when I was growing up!
 
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