Thread: Loads for Rossi Puma 357 Magnum

You are asking a lot to do both jobs well. For sure your goat load will be great bail load. No over penertration BUT if you get a load that will consistently penertrate big pigs at any range,it will zip through goats like a bit of steel rod. The resistance to projectiles is hugely different. If you double load you have good pig,deer load and soft goat load. Find something your happy with for pigs and keep a few in top pocket while continuing to use current load OR pick shot placement better.in the earhole or slipped in behind shield with pig facing away from you. As for daughter...same deal. Two loads.one hot and one not so much.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

You are asking a lot to do both jobs well. For sure your goat load will be great bail load. No over penertration BUT if you get a load that will consistently penertrate big pigs at any range,it will zip through goats like a bit of steel rod. The resistance to projectiles is hugely different. If you double load you have good pig,deer load and soft goat load. Find something your happy with for pigs and keep a few in top pocket while continuing to use current load OR pick shot placement better.in the earhole or slipped in behind shield with pig facing away from you. As for daughter...same deal. Two loads.one hot and one not so much.

Most of the shots I take with the 357 are quite close as it is usually when I am riding the fence lines through the bush, get around a corner and see a mob of goats - and the occasional pig. The issue with the 2 loads is that it all happens very quickly. I don't have time to change rounds. When I actually go out with the intention of shooting some table meat I shoot from my back lawn that has a 360 degree view of the paddocks and I can nail animals out to 300m. If I see pig rooting in the bush areas and know they are around I take the dogs and stick them otherwise if I see them on the paddocks from the farmhouse I can nail them from a distance.

Maybe as you allude to, the 357 is the wrong choice but it is so light and easy to carry around - and being stainless can take the punishment. Many thaks.