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Member Section => Tactical Rifle & Carbine => Topic started by: RTFM on October 10, 2012, 06:03:28 PM
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Watching Guns and Gear today and Tom Gresham showed the M77 in .357
Anyone have any experience with one?
I love the .38 / .357 and do not have a carbine in pistol caliber - but have been looking around for one.
I look at as win/win as I have a good selection of revolvers in .38 and .357 - it seems like the natural progression and I just LIKE the .357 a bunch.
Thanks.
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If I were going to get a pistol caliber carbine, I'd go lever action, if nothing else it holds more rounds than a bolt gun.
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I'd prefer they made it in .357 Max. More power, more versatility.
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If I were going to get a pistol caliber carbine, I'd go lever action, if nothing else it holds more rounds than a bolt gun.
Doing my due diligence - I read that lever guns need round nose or the "rubber" tipped rounds *you know the kind I mean... just can't remember the mfg name there red tipped) that do not get "wonkie" in the feeding process.
The bolt gun feeds all round configurations AND .38 sp - great for teaching and the wife if she should like to shoot it.
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Doing my due diligence - I read that lever guns need round nose or the "rubber" tipped rounds *you know the kind I mean... just can't remember the mfg name there red tipped) that do not get "wonkie" in the feeding process.
The bolt gun feeds all round configurations AND .38 sp - great for teaching and the wife if she should like to shoot it.
I don't think there would be a problem getting wonkie with pistol cartridges...I believe the problem was with long ogive pointy rifle bullets?
The soft tip things are called LeveRevolution by Hornady
http://www.hornady.com/store/leverevolution
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Doing my due diligence - I read that lever guns need round nose or the "rubber" tipped rounds *you know the kind I mean... just can't remember the mfg name there red tipped) that do not get "wonkie" in the feeding process.
The bolt gun feeds all round configurations AND .38 sp - great for teaching and the wife if she should like to shoot it.
Hornady..... LeverEvolution.......... excellent ammo.....IMHO.... ;)
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A lever should feed any round nosed, or soft point or wadcutter fine and safely. I had one in .44 mag. The deal was no pointed rounds, but that sure didn't stop me from feeding 240gr soft points with great success on hogs. I own and love a Ruger M77. Its a great rifle, but it just seems wrong for a pistol cartridge. Plus, they ain't cheap. I'd look at the Rossi lever. But its your gun, and my .270 M77 is a tack driver.
FQ13
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The problem with lever guns was pointed bullets in a tube magazine.
Bullet tip against the primer of the round ahead of it under recoil , bad juju.
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The problem with lever guns was pointed bullets in a tube magazine.
Bullet tip against the primer of the round ahead of it under recoil , bad juju.
Or when you drop it, or hit it hard on the ground etc. But with the rounds mentioned or the Levevolution rounds mentioned by Peg (though I don't know if they come in pistol calibers), you're fine.
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Or when you drop it, or hit it hard on the ground etc. But with the rounds mentioned or the Levevolution rounds mentioned by Peg (though I don't know if they come in pistol calibers), you're fine.
357 & 44.
The 44s reside in my 629 & Marlin 44 lever.
Also available as reload fodder. :)
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I've got the Rossi lever in .357. Nice little gun that, with some light work, can be slicked up nice, and it can be had for under $450. .357 is a fun round out of a carbine.
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Hi;
Was interested in the M77/357 but got sticker shock. For someone looking for a carbine in pistol calibers - HiPoint makes carbines in 9mm,40 S&W and .45acp. Their mags may need a little tweeking but they are cheap,fun and mags from the carbine also can be used in the Hipoint pistols of the same caliber.
Of the 9 Hipoint pistols and carbines and the 38 mags for the weapons, I only had 1 mag that was in need of tweeking. If you left the mags set for a month or 2 loaded - the mag may "self" tweek with no problems.
Lifetime warranty on pistols and carbines.
If Hipoint would come out with a 38/357 pistol/carbine or a .45 long colt deal - I would buy them.
Hipoint had to open up a second manufacturing facility to handle the demand.
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Thanks Dip, but having so many .357 already - the M33/357 either carbine, bolt or lever will be the caliber.
Getting one in any other caliber reduces its overall same-same usefulness to me.