.357 Magnum

But all of this stuff happens, right? You get Talos advancing on Harry.

Harry shoots him with a .357 Magnum.

The shot doesn't penetrate, but it stuns Talos enough for Harry to bludgeon him with the steel barrel of the gun until he's down.

Slate...

And then the banger, when Talos has him on his back and pulls him, and so it ends.

And Harry does a, I might be out of spells, but I'm not out of shells.

Nails him with the .357 Magnum.

Is truly maybe the closest we get to Dresden as Dirty Harry in the entire series.

He was in the parking lot of a shopping center.

He had his .357 Magnum tucked alongside of him.

His first case in Madison, Wisconsin was kind of an unplanned thing.

What put you in that parking lot that day of the shooting?

So he stopped his car in front of me, got out of the car and began walking toward me.

He had this real scowl on his face at first, you know, walking toward me.

So without even thinking, I just reached down there with my right hand and whipped out my .357 Magnum with a six-inch barrel.

And then when he saw the gun, the scowl turned into a surprise, you know? And then...

If you get enough time, the same things are going to come up everywhere.

And like I said before, freedom may come in the form of my pickup truck and my 357 Magnum or on one side of the country in one part of the world.

And in another part of the world, it might be a sailboat or my camper.

Well, what's behind camper? Freedom.

1994, a joint venture between Siksour and Federal.

The goal was to duplicate the .357 Magnum in a semi-automatic handgun cartridge that would fit into your average semi-auto handgun.

You can argue whether they did that or not.

Short answer is I would say with the 125 grain, they get right there with the .357 Magnum.

With heavier bullets, your 158s and stuff like that, no, they don't compare.

But with the most common defensive load of the time and probably still today, the 125 grain...

And a lot of that job was out riding fences, literally, where dispatching coyotes was part of my job.

Where large angry animals in the rut are an actual thing.

If I needed a gun to carry around and I might have to do something serious with it, I would choose the lever gun.

Okay, next question is, is, have you ever shot .38 Super in a .357 Magnum revolver? .38 Super ammunition in a .357 Magnum revolver? No, I have not.

I've seen write-ups where people swear it can be done, but I have not done it.

I just think it's, you know, it's why I get .38 Super ammunition is traditionally the same price or even more expensive than 357 Magnum.

So why, why would you do that? I suppose that that question comes from, well, if you in a pinch, you know, or some sort of a dystopian survival situation, you've got an empty 357 Magnum and you find a box of 38 super.

I think the pressure is, is fine but i think the stingy semi-rim on the case would probably give you a lot of problems might work better in a single action as opposed to a double action it certainly wouldn't eject with the star ejector from a double action so so that's what i would say about that uh here's another question Can you explain why you think .45 is superior to 9mm or .40 Smith & Wesson? This goes back to what I was talking about earlier.

Number one, even though they were done ages and ages and ages ago, the Thompson LaGuardia tests... were, in my opinion, valid.

Um, I don't know.

He was in the parking lot of a shopping center.

He had his .357 Magnum tucked alongside of him.

His first case in Madison, Wisconsin was kind of an unplanned thing.

What put you in that parking lot that day of the shooting?

So he stopped his car in front of me, got out of the car and began walking toward me.

He had this real scowl on his face at first, you know, walking toward me.

So without even thinking, I just reached down there with my right hand and whipped out my .357 Magnum with a six-inch barrel.

And then when he saw the gun, the scowl turned into a surprise, you know? And then...