In my new issue of American Rifleman, the magazine of the NRA, the cover story features a Ruger revolver with the new .327 caliber cartridge. The .327 is supposed to be like a .357 caliber with less recoil or kick.
I do not understand the need for a new size cartridge. I agree that the .357 has a little too much kick, but it is easy to just use a .38 or a .38 +P and make the shot much more manageable. The .38 can be used in a .357 barrel. Is this just marketing from the ammo manufacturers?
I prefer the .38 over the .357 because it has less kick and can therefore be used in smaller easier to carry revolvers.
If you ever find the need to fire your weapon, it will likely be fired at an assailant who is 7 to 10′ away and running at you. You need a short barrel they can not grab and preferably a shrouded or hammerless gun they can not disable if they try and grab the gun. You will not be involved in a gun battle shooting at someone 30′ away. That is for cop shows on TV.
If you are ever in a situation where five .38’s will not solve the problem, you are in way over your head. Also rememeber that in most of the cases where a gun is effective in stopping a crime, it is never fired; just the sight of an armed citizen will usually send the criminal looking for an easier target.
PS- This is not information you are likely to get on the DNC website.
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