3 inch revolver and Double Tap .357 ammo?

[jonsidneyb]

The 3 inch 60 there is becoming my fovorite carry gun. It has customs Novakish sights I had made and the hip grip makes it easy to tuck and run.

I started shooing .357 more than 30 years ago and the recoil has never bothered me. I walked away from the model 19 Smith and explored about every auto brand out there but the revolvers have called me back with a gun I never expected to love. A 3inch J-frame 60.

I carry Corbon 125 grain loads in this 3inch J-Frame. I am thinking about trying DoubleTap as the carry load but I am wondering if this is a mistake.

1. Corbons are quite snappy in this gun but managable. I wonder if the Double Tap ammo will be way too much. I have heard people say the recoil is not much different than the remington load in felt recoil.

2. Has anyone chronographed Double Tap 125s in a three inch gun to see what they will do in a gun of this length.

3. Has anyone chronagraphed Double Tap 125s in any barrel length?

 

[Jim March]

I haven't chronoed the Doubletap 125 full house, but I've fired it in a Ruger New Vaquero.

The NV is a pretty big gun, but at the time it wore checkered plastic grips. The Doubletap 125s were painful to fire with bare hands.

They're going to be one HELL of a wild ride in a J-class gun. Your mileage may vary.

One suggestion: if you get some and they're just too much, consider loading one as "last at bat". The gun will tell you it's unloaded by trying to rip your arm off. OK, that's overstating matters...but the principle is sound. You don't need to practice with that last round's monster power because you don't NEED to control it's recoil. So you don't develop a flinch trying to "master" the dang things.

For the four previous rounds, consider Speer's 135gr 357mag, or Cor-Bon's 125gr all-copper DPX in 357, which isn't loaded as wild as the rest of Cor-Bon's 357 product line.

 

[Erich]

I used to carry Buffalo Bore 158-gr .357s in my 60-15 (before I sold it when the lock self-activated after I oafishly knocked it off a counter onto a hardwood floor) - they worked very well in it.

 

[jonsidneyb]

well, if I find that the Double Tap is too much for me in this gun. I will return to the Corbon 125s. I know I can handle those.

I have to admit, the doubletaps are kind of scaring me a little in this gun.

I know that velocities vary from gun to gun of even the same model and barrel lenght. I just wish I had a good grasp of a ball park figure with the Corbon 125s out of this and what the DoubleTaps will do out of this.

Any guess as to what kind of speed out of a 3 inch 60?

 

[jonsidneyb]

Oh, I have considered that last at bat round many times.

My hand is starting to get scared.