Try Steve's Gunz
action is real nice ! no brass
You are going to enjoy it. When you go to the range take a couple big bottles of water and blew them apart. It gives you an idea of the power, lots more than the 44 pistol, sometimes double.
I cant wait to take it out to the farm this weekend .
None of the 357s last long. It took me 3 years to find a stainless 16 inch. The hardest to find is the 454. Here is a pic of the long one, the add is wrong, it says 20 inch. I bought a used one, 20 inch stainless. My fav of all levers. It has both the tube load and the side load. It rivals my stainless Marlin Guide gun for first place in my mind. Both shoot 300 grain bullets over 1800 fps and the book says they will do more, but my shoulder will not. The Rossi 454 is that original bush pilot gun so you will never see one on a shelf. Probably the most versatile for hunting is the 44 Geral bought,although the 45 Colt can be loaded that hot too. The 357s are just plain fun. The prices on guns america are nuts $800-$900 for some.The 20 inch blue over there is $800. That's why I posted, the one above is $608 and that includes free shipping.
I had a chance to buy a stainless 480 for $750 and told the guy I needed to think about it, the next day it was long gone. I did find that stainless 454 used and was smart enough to grab it. Most of them are like new because they are brutal to shoot. Lol I also have the stainless guide gun. The 45-70 is much more fun to shoot with both shooting 300 grain bullets at 1800 fps. I down load both of them also for fun days. I put the 454 above my 3.5 inch turkey loads and equal to my 300 Weatherby loads. My recoil tolerance puts the 30-06 at a zero or baseline, I could shoot a couple hundred loads and I have without any big deal. 10 rounds of that 454 with factory loads is about all I want in any one day. But I sure do enjoy it.
I have both Marlins and Rossis in 357. My 1981 Marlin scoped will shoot 1.25 inch groups with 125 grain bullets. A scoped lever is just not as much fun and my groups would be minute of 5 gallon bucket at 100, with the open sights. Although, sometimes I get very lucky. I own several 357 revolvers, small, medium, and large so having the lever Guns is just handy. My light load in a pistol are about 400 foot pounds up to about 1000 in the rifles, so they cover a lot of ground. I just think everybody could use a 357 lever.
I have had one or more 357 lever Guns for forty years, so I am pretty familiar with their limitations. I have killed well over 100 deer antelope and elk and never took a 357 deer hunting. That said, I only hunt big deer, no does or small bucks at all. I know people who use them for deer and I guess if you shoot deer trained to come to feeders where your shots are 20-30 yards they would be fine, that is not hunting to me, so my shots are seldom close. The deer I killed last year was 282 yards.
Man, that looks like oodles of fun!
