unknown .357 round revealed! no wonder...

The only depleted uranium rounds you will see are going to be from the main gun on a tank, or from tank busting aircraft, and it is not a coating, it is a penetrator.

The only possibility for this round that I can find is a disruptor round, used by EOD to knock critical components off or destroy parts of an explosive devise without detonating it. I've seen the .50 BMG ones in person, but did find .410 and .357 online. They are not meant to be fired from firearms, there is an apparatus that is used.

You honestly need to put up some pictures of this mayhem that was caused, I have some serious doubts.
 
No worries! looks like rob is right, no d/u in small arms! (whew! good.) Sorry rob, i took no photos. Go ahead and have your doubts, that's alright. Ed says that they make them up right in the shop with common stock components. "They are not dangerous at all" (so HE says!) I looked up your disruptor round, its a water cannon. That's quite the opposite of an incendiary but looks fun. I did run across archives for a handloading forum, they seem pretty frightening. They have loaded anything you can think of and shot it. I was a dumb-a$$ by mistake, they are doing it on purpose.
 
This has not been a "great" week at work. However, this post should have brought joy and laughter to apparently 638 folks so far. Now certainly I wish no harm or marital strife in the home of Mr. Harry Mudd. And leasons learned are useful and I prefer them with no human injury.

So I thank you Harry, this has been a great week!

And at least Harry still has the "guts" to write it up here so we can all learn.

As a result of this post I will not be discharging my 357 in similiar fashion.
 
When I was a kid I sometimes lived where you could go out in the back yard and shoot. Even years later, in the seventies, you could go to the boonies and shoot. Now I live in a county where someone lives in what used to be the boonies and discharging a firearm out of doors is illegal unless it is within a licensed firing range. The neighbors in this condo probably wouldn't appreciate my firing a 357 in the bathroom into a bucket but I can understand why someone would if they could. :)
 
There is the water disrupting contraption, but I remember the EOD tech attached to a platoon of mine had a rig that he could set up next to a device and it would fire a round through a small smoothbore barrel (His was .50, however, there are smaller ones, and .357 is one of them that I managed to find on the net) in order to knock apart the explosive device. I am pretty certain they just use standard rounds though, nothing big and exciting. These things that you've found sound rather intense though, have fun, hopefully outside next time.
 
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