Remington Kleanbore 357 158gr Metal Point question

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There will also usually be some dating code (lot number), either impressed or ink stamped somewhere on the box, such as"D27S". That can often be deciphered to reveal the month and year of loading. But the nature of those codes will be different for different manufacturers, i.e., Remington used a different coding system than Western.
 
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I have most of a box of that; it was purchased around 1970. I chronographed a few rounds. It was in the 1,200+ fps range in a 6" barreled revolver. Surely this stuff wouldn't shoot through anything but the thinnest of metals?
I had a box of the Remington, It would not shoot through an old electric iron which had about 1/4" soft metal plate on the bottom - a follow up shot with a 16 gauge foster slug disentegrated the iron!

Roposte
 
I have most of a box of that; it was purchased around 1970. I chronographed a few rounds. It was in the 1,200+ fps range in a 6" barreled revolver. Surely this stuff wouldn't shoot through anything but the thinnest of metals?
I shoot tin cans all the time. 😁
 
The metal piercing rounds in both .38 Special and .357 Magnum were designed to shoot into cars when they were actually made out of real steel, and had more than a modicum of metal in the doors, etc. The mobsters of the era outgunned the police, who were mostly armed with .38 Special round nose lead bullets, which wouldn't penetrate through car doors. These were designed to alleviate that problem. The one I pulled had a truncated metal nose, and a lead bearing surface, but I don't remember which brand it was, as it was many years ago.

They weren't designed as armor piercing rounds, just metal piercing, as in car doors.

Hope this helps.

Fred
 
Another explanation I read about years ago is that the .357 with metal point was supposed to crack an engine block thereby disabling the bad guys getaway car.
 
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