.357 Maximum

"He probably remembers that shot almost as much as winning class at the Internationals." You betcha I remember that!! The other one was hitting a pig so hard it turned end for end but didn't go over, at the Nationals. I heard it hit, my spotter called it a hit, and when we looked downrange it was facing the wrong direction!! Only had the one "miss" and ended up with the Canadian championship!
........great memories, and now I know who the YKKID is!!
 
This post was started on the .357 Maximum and you thurned it into one on metalic silhouette shooting. Whats the matter with you guy's.
 
That's the reason the 357 Max (and the DW 357 Supermag, pretty much a clone) was invented. Without silhouette the cartridge would have gone no where. And silhouette was a lot of fun. Be tough to do today, as mentioned, with all the range safety nazis around. I had better luck with my TC in 7 Int-R, and then the 7 TCU (less recoil). In revolver I used S&W (too delicate), a Ruger SBH (worked, not as accurate as I wanted), and finally a DW 44 Mag, which worked quite well. The 357 Max was an interesting cartridge that quite a few people tried out, I recall a couple of shooters that used it in a TC, very accurate. Knew one guy who ruined a TC frame with a stout 357 Max handload. Stuff happens when you compete. There were some really good shooters around back in the day (I wasn't one of them), but I watched a guy knocking chickens off the 200 meter stands with a 44 mag snubbie. Good times. - dan
 
You're right, Dan, the two went hand in hand, one was no good without the other. But keeping "on the subject", the Maxi was flat shooting and if you knew your holds one could clean the range without adjusting the sights. Seville also made a Maxi but not many, ....did see one for sale a few months ago, but it was gone quickly. I still have a 7 rimmed Wichita pistol that is good but pounds the palm with the Colt 11 degree grip. Gave the Dan Wesson .375 Supermag a go, but preferred it for bear rather than rams, just a bit too heavy. I still have every issue of the IHMSA newspaper, lots of history on the different firearms and calibers that were tried, and great reference material.

Just a question for the younger experts, "What's a Ruger Silver Hornpipe"? It was a production gun and both myself and another here shoot them still!

Since my new Maxi is still in the mail, everyone will have to wait for a report on it, but if you want loads, etc., I can provide pages of articles, although they do relate to Silhouette.

Too bad there's no interest in this sport anymore, it really separated the blowhards from the crowd. Do you remember the shootoff with Copenhagen cans painted white at 200 yards? 5 out of 7 shooters cleaned them all!! ......and they said Elmer was full of it, nobody could shoot that distance with a pistol!!
 
Ruger Silver Hornpipe

Well, if I had to guess I'd probably say it was one of three things:
1. a KMK-10 10" stainless barrelled .22LR for practice,
2. a long barrelled Super Redhawk
3. a long barrelled Super Blackhawk IHMSA edition (although blue so don't know where silver would come in)

I'm going to pick #1 but my gut is saying #2, or something completely different.

Always wondered about the .357 Maximum. I literally used to read my Guns & Ammo magazines ragged at the breakfast table every morning before school back in the 80's, so I remember a lot of articles, and remember when the Maximum came out. They seemed to push IHMSA hard for a while, then <poof>, nothing, I'm guessing in part due to the surge in IPSC.

I even remembering trying shooting my Crosman .357 air pistol creedmore style at tin cans once or twice, lol.
 
Bullwhip, you were close, a stainless Super Blackhawk, 10 1/2" with a long ejector to fully push out case, and special open sights. Not a special IHMSA edition, but most were sold thru Elgin's warehouse, "The Silhouette". Best Ruger for the job, still use mine and there's close to 150,000 rounds thru it. Most diehard Ruger collectors will say they weren't produced, but I have the ads for them!! YKKid, you still have yours?
 
357 max

I used to shoot 357 max back in the day eg. early '80s so, out of curiosity, I dug out my old load data and what I saw gave me a few more grey hairs: 180gr FMJ Speer bullet, 23 grains of Win 296, chronographed at 1802 FPS out of a TC Contender 10" barrel - yikes!
It is an understatement to say they were a very snappy round to shoot - after a 40 round course of fire your fingers would be numb and your wrist felt like a wet noodle.
Well.... my only excuse is that I was 30 years younger!
 
We still have an active silhouette club here in S'toon. A few Regina guys come up as well. Couple T/C Maxi's in the bunch, XP-100's in 7BR & TCU, a 7-08, Ruger 44's. We're pretty much all old guys now so there's a lot of optics on the guns.

We play by the rules, just aren't IHMSA members any more.
 
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