You mean all of those highway patrolmen carrying .357 Magnums all those years - they will crack an engine block! - were wrong?!
I may be confusing things, but isn't the reason Clyde Barrow preferred the .30-06 BAR was because it would shoot through a car?
Jim, as I understand it the early 357 Magnum rounds were hard-cast bullets at obscenely high velocities and pressures (by current SAAMI standards) which were ostensibly designed to shoot through car doors, as a means of addressing the new-fangled bank robbers' modus operandi (escaping from the crime in cars equipped with heavy steel doors of the day!).
And yes, I had heard the same thing about Barrow's choice of the BAR. Apparently, he was not impressed with the ability of the 45 ACP Thompson's ability to shoot through automotive sheet metal, and he was certainly experienced in that field!
