Title: 7 Things To Know About .357 Sig - Sort Of... - GunsAmerica Digest
Headings: 7 Things To Know About .357 Sig – Sort Of…
7 Things To Know About .357 Sig – Sort Of…
It’s like a .357 Magnum, but not really.
It’s like a 9mm on steroids, but not really.
It’s based on the .40 S&W, but not really.
The .357 Sig feels the pressure.
The .357 Sig head spaces on the case mouth, or maybe the case shoulder.
The .357 Sig can create black holes.
Highway Patrols and the Secret Service love the .357 Sig

Content: I don’t really know why, I just think it’s cool. Well, seriously speaking, it is a screamer with great street performance and the bottleneck design helps not only velocity, but feeding reliability. Developed by a pas de deux featuring Sig Sauer and Federal Ammunition in 1994, it’s loosely based on a necked down .40 S&W cartridge – conceptually anyway. The idea of .357 Sig is to launch a .355 caliber bullet form an autoloading pistol a few hundred feet per second faster than a 9mm cartridge can. With that said, consider these interesting facts about the .357 Sig…
It’s like a .357 Magnum, but not really. You’ll hear descriptions of the caliber like “it offers .357 Magnum capability in an autoloader that’s not a Coonan.” That’s partially true, if you’re talking about a .357 Magnum firing a 125 grain bullet. DoubleTap Ammunition markets 125 grain .357 Sig loads that clock 1,525 feet per second from a 4 ½ inch barrel. That’s about 645 foot-pounds of muzzle energy, and within .357 Magnum territory for a 125 grain projectile. The ‘not really’ part comes into play when you consider 158 grain .357 Magnum loads.