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OK...so what could it be used for in the UK?

Fun...??

I use mine on club gallery shoots for carbines using peep sights, saves wear and tear on Marlins / Winchesters etc and gets a fair bit interest as not many have seen one.

There have been several members in my club with them. They are used for FUN!

Is "having fun" classed as good reason to posess in a fascist society ?

Fun isn't but target shooting is, and that would be good reason.
There is at least on used in the club and I think it is used in some gallery comps. but I don't know which ones

I had a stainless one in 44 mag, very nice, crisp single stage trigger, lovely short barrell with mod and the action was nice amd easy going... I used mine for close fox mainly (which turned them i side out on the spot) within say 60-80m 100 would be pushing it a bit, i did go onto warminster ranges with it at 2/300 and was using full magnums, it hit the board and the black ok and with tinkering im sure a load could be found.

I entered mine at gr open events once and won a few golds....

The mod was great and it was quieter than a 17hmr, alas i never used it that much and the addition of my 30-06 proved to be my go to for deer and fox, so i sold it, had i been a millionaire ide have kept it as it was a nice gun...

Chuck wrote:http://www.alloutdoor.com/2017/10/31/wa ... Newsletter

OK...so what could it be used for in the UK?

Fox control or humane despatch. I know people to use one for both and even a registered slaughterman who used one for despatching cattle. He carried his in a short guncase on the dashboard of his truck. The case wasn't shaped as a conventional case but rectangular and could be mistaken for a pool cue case.

Ahhh FUN, something the UK is short on nowadays.

Didn't think .357 was a target round, well there you go.

I was actually looking for this "Fox control or humane despatch". Thanks Chapius.

Not that this is good shooting or anything, but this is a 25 round group from a Marlin 1894 shot off hand with open sights at 25m. During load development, I got a 5 shot group almost through the same hole when shooting bench rest at 25m.

It definitely has the potential for precision shooting from a gallery range point of view. It's easy to forget sometimes that its actually a handgun round.