"end.user" invalid.reply.2.newsgroup wrote in message
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Don't you mean that the other way around? My Highway Patrolman shoots
.38's
but is a .357 magnum frame (and shoots them!).

Nope - just the way I spake it.

I think you need to check again. A .357 will chamber a .38 special, a .38
special CANNOT chamber a .357. The .357 case is quite a bit longer than a
.38.




Yeah, but he said "frame". For certain calibers, including .357, there are
various frame sizes, which is why Smith & Wesson designate as K-frame,
J-frame, etc. There were, in fact, a few .357s build on a light frame. This
doesn't mean a short cylinder. It means other parts of the gun are
lighter-skinnier whatever. This, in turn, is why you'll see discussions
where people say "That hand load's fine for this model .357, but no way you
should load rounds that hot for THAT model .357".