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<blockquote data-quote="mtngunr" data-source="post: 4330599" data-attributes="member: 46104"><p>The 681 cylinder is plenty beefier enough for a regular diet of the stoutest standard factory ammo, and have already had my day playing Speed King with suchlike Dean Grinnell's 1200fps M-60 loads, among others, (which I NEVER would have fired in a Model 10), and found that playing Speed King led to that bane of all manly men, Projectile Dysfunction.</p><p></p><p>A detective pal of mine in Texico whomped up some gas checked Keith HP .357 loads using old data and newer powder, shot a spike buck in the neck and all which left the head attached was a strip of hide, but I was pretty sure the tail was not bloodshot and quite edible.</p><p></p><p>Another friend, who was Indiana State Police champion in the revolvulator golden age and handloader of vast experience whom I trusted, told me of his 10" Super Redhawk load with a 180gr XTP which was doing in excess of a clocked 1900fps, where I doubted his sanity until he pointed out the published load. So, naturally, I loaded up a box and took the planet wreckers to the range with my Redhawk and, sure enough, I was averaging 1825fps from the 7.5" which is .454 territory in velocity if not 250gr bullet weight. I was contemplating the controlled expansion bullet and envisioning shooting bad guys through post office mail boxes or maybe through post offices, no place to hide, not behind a brick wall or Wells Fargo truck, only worry was changing local weather patterns.</p><p></p><p>I dragged along nine water-filled tough 1gal Gatoraid bottles and wondered should I have brought more, packed them tightly in line and let rip with the thing which sounded more as a .30-06....</p><p></p><p>was rewarded with getting misted 25yds away, a towering gout of water making me think of Old Faithful, and an oscillating flattened 1ft piece of plastic wafting down like a leaf, and went out to observe the devastation....and all but one of the jugs were still there, each now was separated by an inch or two of space, and water glug glugging from front/only of second jug from a very large hole, and inside was what appeared to be two discs of metal foil between the diameters of a quarter and fifty-cent piece, one was copper and the other was lead...</p><p></p><p>Those loads likely would have been the hammer of Thor on a deer at 100yds, but I could find no real use for them past taking them along on crowded range days to clear the range and give me more privacy.</p><p></p><p>Speed isn't everything. The 681 will do everything I need of the .357 S&W Magnum.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mtngunr, post: 4330599, member: 46104"] The 681 cylinder is plenty beefier enough for a regular diet of the stoutest standard factory ammo, and have already had my day playing Speed King with suchlike Dean Grinnell's 1200fps M-60 loads, among others, (which I NEVER would have fired in a Model 10), and found that playing Speed King led to that bane of all manly men, Projectile Dysfunction. A detective pal of mine in Texico whomped up some gas checked Keith HP .357 loads using old data and newer powder, shot a spike buck in the neck and all which left the head attached was a strip of hide, but I was pretty sure the tail was not bloodshot and quite edible. Another friend, who was Indiana State Police champion in the revolvulator golden age and handloader of vast experience whom I trusted, told me of his 10" Super Redhawk load with a 180gr XTP which was doing in excess of a clocked 1900fps, where I doubted his sanity until he pointed out the published load. So, naturally, I loaded up a box and took the planet wreckers to the range with my Redhawk and, sure enough, I was averaging 1825fps from the 7.5" which is .454 territory in velocity if not 250gr bullet weight. I was contemplating the controlled expansion bullet and envisioning shooting bad guys through post office mail boxes or maybe through post offices, no place to hide, not behind a brick wall or Wells Fargo truck, only worry was changing local weather patterns. I dragged along nine water-filled tough 1gal Gatoraid bottles and wondered should I have brought more, packed them tightly in line and let rip with the thing which sounded more as a .30-06.... was rewarded with getting misted 25yds away, a towering gout of water making me think of Old Faithful, and an oscillating flattened 1ft piece of plastic wafting down like a leaf, and went out to observe the devastation....and all but one of the jugs were still there, each now was separated by an inch or two of space, and water glug glugging from front/only of second jug from a very large hole, and inside was what appeared to be two discs of metal foil between the diameters of a quarter and fifty-cent piece, one was copper and the other was lead... Those loads likely would have been the hammer of Thor on a deer at 100yds, but I could find no real use for them past taking them along on crowded range days to clear the range and give me more privacy. Speed isn't everything. The 681 will do everything I need of the .357 S&W Magnum. [/QUOTE]
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