.357 on indoor ranges

[Alpha1]

I normally shoot .38 special on indoor 25 yard ranges but I had so much fun shooting .357 on a outdoor 25 yard range I thought I might have a go indoors with the same load of 6.2 grains of Unique. Anybody shoot in doors with .357.

[majordisorder]

Yes

[Chapuis]

Yes but there again we can shoot rifles with fairly high muzzle energies on our range. What is your range cleared for?
Many old indoor pistol ranges were never designed or certified to take anything but low velocity ammunition.

[Les]

Yes. We can shoot .357 on our ranges. They are a tad noisy indoors, though! :lol:

[WelshShooter]

Yeah I shoot indoors at my local 25m range. I use downloaded lead rounds as we are restricted to velocities and jacketed rounds are not allowed. Here's the chart that my club put up. Ps I use 38spl loads for 357 cases with 158gr swc and get great accuracy.

[nickb834]

My range is indoor and limited to 475lbft and 1710 fps, which means that on this page there's only 5 factory rounds out of all those available that meet my ranges limits:

http://www.ballistics101.com/357_magnum.php

Some of those are specialty rounds (desinged for snub nose revolvers apparently) and I'd wager they're hard to find in the UK (could be wrong).

So in our case - needs to be a home load with a heavy pill and not much powder (which tbh saves a few quid in the long run and at 25 yards you can still punch tight groups).

[phaedra1106]

I shoot 44mag at both of our indoor clubs, one lets you shoot anything non-jacketed (including factory) the other is limited and I use either a 200 or 240gr lead rnfp with 4.8 and 4.6gr of Titegroup respectively. Very cheap to feed and very accurate.

[zanes]

So in our case - needs to be a home load with a heavy pill and not much powder (which tbh saves a few quid in the long run and at 25 yards you can still punch tight groups).

A "few quid"?!

I can comfortably turn out .44 loads for indoor usage for less than 15p/round (including purchased cast bullets) whereas factory <starts> at more than 40p/round (magtech cowboy). Indoor pistol calibre shooting with lead bullets is one place where reloading is a complete no brainer- you can do it with very simple kit for minimal outlay and the cost savings even at 50 rounds/week are enormous. Cases last forever and a day.

[phaedra1106]

Indeed, even using lead bullets bought from Henry Krank etc. the 44 only costs around 13p a round, moulding your own cast boolits would be even cheaper.

[nickb834]

So in our case - needs to be a home load with a heavy pill and not much powder (which tbh saves a few quid in the long run and at 25 yards you can still punch tight groups).

A "few quid"?!

I can comfortably turn out .44 loads for indoor usage for less than 15p/round (including purchased cast bullets) whereas factory <starts> at more than 40p/round (magtech cowboy). Indoor pistol calibre shooting with lead bullets is one place where reloading is a complete no brainer- you can do it with very simple kit for minimal outlay and the cost savings even at 50 rounds/week are enormous. Cases last forever and a day.

So exactly - saves a few quid in the long run then dunnit