All,
I am considering trading my Ruger 77/357 for a SASS gun, but new SASS gun will need to pull double duty as my brush busting gun. I have a pet load I'm working on using the Lee 200 grain bullet in a .357 magnum case. crimped at the crimp groove it has the same OAL as a 360 Dan Wesson without requiring any modification to the chamber. this really ups the velocity for my bullet out of a rifle barrel. The 360 Dan Wesson has an OAL .01 shorter than a 454 Casull so the Rossi 92 action should be able to handle this OAL.
My question is can it do it without modification to the carrier etc? Does anyone have a R92 357 that they could see if a 1.76 OAL cartridge will cycle on? I can send a dummy to someone if they want to try it for me. I'd rather not modify anything in the gun as I would still like to be able to run 38's for CAS. Please advise.