I have a 340 Sc and am interested in using RBCD ammo in it. I see on RBCD's website that both the .357 mag loadings and .38 loadings are 60 grain. My snub's barrel warns against using ammo that is less than 120 grains. Would shooting a few of these occasionally do any damage? Normally I would just be using 125gr+ .38's or .357's. I'm interested in using these as a carry load.
RBCD for scandium snubs
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I'm curious about that restriction too.....
I've heard about this restriction but am at a loss to know why. The only warnings I hear are on the heaver bullets (158 gr) that tend to un-crimp themselves due to their weight and jam the cylinder from rotating.
My own sense is to ask how a lighter standard load ammo would cause a gun like that to be damaged in any way? (excessive erosion at the forcing cone/cylinder gap caused by by-products of combustion?) I dunno.
Come on; someone out there must have a plausible answer..............
I've heard about this restriction but am at a loss to know why. The only warnings I hear are on the heaver bullets (158 gr) that tend to un-crimp themselves due to their weight and jam the cylinder from rotating.
My own sense is to ask how a lighter standard load ammo would cause a gun like that to be damaged in any way? (excessive erosion at the forcing cone/cylinder gap caused by by-products of combustion?) I dunno.
Come on; someone out there must have a plausible answer..............
In 357mag. 110gr and under the powder is a higher(hotter) burning one that will increase flame cutting of the frame and erosion of the coating on the cylinders. So says S&W when I called them. In the heavier loads they just say to buy several brands and see which ones do not pull out under recoil. So far in my 386PD I havent had any trouble with 125 or 158 grainers.
KEN CHAVEZ
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Good info Albert
The odd thing is that I own a S&W 360Sc, with the "NO LESS THEN 12Ogn" on the side of the barrel, but that same inscription is no where on my S&W 386PD. Also no where in the Owner's Manual dose it say anything about this warning.
HydraShok why do you feel the need to use anything lighter then 120gr., also is it worth taking a chance on damaging your gun!
Anyway I love these guns, I think I am going to be buried with them.
The odd thing is that I own a S&W 360Sc, with the "NO LESS THEN 12Ogn" on the side of the barrel, but that same inscription is no where on my S&W 386PD. Also no where in the Owner's Manual dose it say anything about this warning.
HydraShok why do you feel the need to use anything lighter then 120gr., also is it worth taking a chance on damaging your gun!
Anyway I love these guns, I think I am going to be buried with them.
Try the RBCDs and see how they do out of your scandium. I've fired several of them out of my 340PD and had trouble ejecting the brass. Had to push out several casings, which had expanded and jammed. This has never happened with the standard weight loadings from other companies. Maybe there's something with these RBCDs and alloy revolvers. Let me know if they work for you, since the idea of an RBCD out of a scandium gun is intriguing -- though I can't feel confident with them at this time, given my (albeit limited) experience above.