All you need to round out a very nice selection is a .357 mag in a 1911 please.

thank you in advance

( if anyone has an e-mail addy for flatgate over on the ruger forum,
I'd be interested)

have trouble logging in

Thinking that Coonan tried that for a while and it didn't sell as much as they'd hoped. An LAR Grizzly took it a few more notches, but they are kinda spendy.

I figured that the 65% of the Ruger fans already have a GP and would just get it , because they made it.

.357 Magnum is a rimmed revolver cartridge. Rimmed cartridges don't tend to play nice with traditional semiauto magazines or traditional semiauto designs.

In addition, .357 Magnum is an overly long cartridge designed for revolver cylinders, so the magazine and corresponding grip of a .357 Magnum semiauto would have to be extra thick front-to-back. (You can't cram .357 Magnum into a standard 9/40/45 semiauto format.)

Despite all that, Coonan Arms produces a quasi-1911 specifically adapted for .357 Magnum, which incorporates a number of modifications in order to be able to handle the rimmed .357 Magnum cartridge. As a result of all the changes needed to work with .357 Magnum, it similar to a 1911, but not a 1911. And it is a pretty slow seller. So I don't see Ruger spending the time and money to get into that extremely niche market anytime soon.

http://www.coonaninc.com/product/357-magnum-classic/



Note the overly thick grip compared to a standard 1911, to accommodate the long .357 Magnum cartridge:




The LAR Grizzly was an earlier attempt from the 1980s at making a quasi-1911 that could handle cartridges like the .357 Magnum. It also has a number of internal changes plus an overly thick grip in order to accomodate the .357 Magnum cartridge, and it too was a slow seller.




A better option in the 1911 platform would be the .357 Sig cartridge, which was created to replicate .357 Magnum performance in a smaller, more semiauto-friendly (and non-rimmed) package. There are some standard 1911s available in .357 Sig.

Rogue beat me to it. There is a short case, rimless 357 mag - called 357 SIG.

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if anyone has an e-mail addy for flatgate over on the ruger forum,
I'd be interested)

Flatgate passed away early in 2018.

Just like SIG should make the 10mm P220 and the staggered-column (double stack) 45 ACP P220 that people here clamored about for years and then were such commercial successes after they were actually produced—?

The Coonan is a real blaster. You'll need on some ear protection. So will the shooter 3 stations down from you.

If you are slowly drifting away from the 357 Magnum 1911, consider a double stack 1911 in 10mm. I did.

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Originally posted by arfmel:

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if anyone has an e-mail addy for flatgate over on the ruger forum,
I'd be interested)

Flatgate passed away early in 2018.

well that sucks,

I will go look for another person to contact , to help get me in..


Rogue. thanks for the comparison photo

wow! 11 ammo weights in 10mm

I can remember when there were 4, available

I just wish they had an SR1911 38 Super

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Originally posted by bendable:

I will go look for another person to contact , to help get me in..

If by "in" you mean registered for the Ruger forum, there's no signing up at the moment. (or for a while now) Upgrades are in the works however.

My Dad has a Colt 1911 in .38 Special that he had a gunsmith make for him in the '60s when we lived in Hawaii. I guess it used to be a thing. I don't remember him ever shooting it though.

That doesn't really have anything to do with the subject of this thread but it made me think of it. So, there ya go.

Desert Eagles were made in .357. Had one for a while, functioned well, loved the accuracy. However with that small hole in the same barrel blank it was a heavy SOB.

My old Colt Gov’t i 9 x 23mm did the trick! 124 gr about 1450 fps smoking and easy to shoot.

I think they should bring the .356 TSW back

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Originally posted by bendable:
All you need to round out a very nice selection is a .357 mag in a 1911 please.

thank you in advance

( if anyone has an e-mail addy for flatgate over on the ruger forum,
I'd be interested)

have trouble logging in

They do it's called .38 super. The ballistics are very close between the two cartridges.

No chance homie.

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Originally posted by cas:

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Originally posted by bendable:

I will go look for another person to contact , to help get me in..

If by "in" you mean registered for the Ruger forum, there's no signing up at the moment. (or for a while now) Upgrades are in the works however.

Just curious, which Ruger forum?

Per the website, they do make the Standard and Target (all stainless steel, five-inch "Government" length, fixed or adjustable sights, respectively) models in 10mm (but not in .357 SIG). Some loadings of this cartridge can exceed the .357 Magnum. The .357 - a revolver cartridge - itself is a terrible cartridge for a semi-auto that you can still get your fingers around.