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Exactly.

I wish I'd kept my Dan Wesson .357 Magnum from the 1980s. I had three barrels for it. Oddly, though, no one made aftermarket grips for it. Not that there was anything wrong with the factory grips, but they were large, target style, grips, and when I had the snub barrel on it, I would have liked a round butt grip.

rickt300: Well the heading of your post was good for a laugh anyway.
Sheesh.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I did have a 4" Dan Wesson back in the 80s shot it very well! Always wanted another one. Guys going to be set up at the same gun show, next Saturday, if it still available . I should take a better look at it!

I agree...my 686 is 6" and have a 19-4 plus 2 Taurus....love the 32, 9mm, 41 mag, 45acp and 45 colt....but the 357 will never go anywhere!

For some reason prices for Dan Wesson revolvers nearly doubled or doubled in last couple of years. Some years ago same happened to older S&W revolvers, quite sudden almost like all of the sudden Elon Musk announced he will start collecting S&W revolvers.🙄 Back to topic, you might be able to find nice High Standard Sentinel. 357 like MkII for $450, gun whore geezers are less likely be aware of those.

Whut? You been hanging around with slavek again?

plenty of NIB Colt Pythons and King Cobras for sale in my area.

Nice old Colt, rlott. I've got a '72 6" MK III.

It seems to be doing pretty well around here. The new gun sections seem to have several double action varieties for sale. It also seems the lever guns are also fairly popular.

At one time, it was thought the Wonder-Nines would kill it off. But, it managed to weather that period.

I still like the ability of the mild 38 SPL loads up through the Magnums. It obviously lacks the diameter of the heavier hitters, but still has its place place in my rack.

I am beginning to experiment with the Hammer Bullets 150 gr Jack Hammer and the CEB 165 gr HGS. There is definitely an ample amount of various types and weights of bullets for it.

Probably won’t shoot it until I get a dot installed but the r8 I just picked up has a phenomenal trigger, makes my no dash 686 trigger feel like garbage.

I almost got my hands on a four inch Colt Lawman Mk III (basically the Trooper Mk III with fixed sights) a couple months back. The guy selling it on gunbroker had it up for a few cycles of auctions, and it hadn't sold. It was pristine. Looked new, right out of the box. I offered the guy a low ball bid, and he came back with a price halfway between mine and his previous starting bid. I accepted. He never followed through.

I kept asking him to make that offer officially to me via gunbroker (as the rules there require) so that I could accept it, and pay for it. He just ignored me, and never took it off auction. Next thing I know, it's got a bid for his original starting price. He just decided to back out of the deal when his starting bid was met, and wouldn't respond to my messages about our deal.

The .357 isn't dead. It's just that anything and everything to be said about it has been said ad nauseum. Now it just soldiers along going about its business, an icon that has achieved benchmark status that doesn't need a lot of gum-flapping to justify its existence.

When a person looks up .357 Magnum in the dictionary, gnoahhh's statement ought to be there.

Nailed it!

Looking at the latest atf data I could find, it appears that a couple years ago, for every 357 sold, nineteen 9mms got handed across the counter. Categorize that as you wish.

For "just about dead" it is pretty lively around here. It's not the .357 that is just about dead, it's whatever is in front of the muzzle.

... and I've never owned a 1911. That's a situation I mean to rectify butI'm picky .. the specific gun I want hasn't been in stock since before Covid. I've waited. I'll continue to wait. Compromise usually leads to buying a thing I didn't quite want, being unhappy with it, selling it at a loss, then getting what I wanted in the first place. I'm learning to skip the intermediate mistake.

I don't doubt that. Particularly during the panic periods' record sales times, everyone wants round capacity. I also bet during "normal" periods the $600'ish semi's outsell the $800 revolvers by a substantial amount.

There still must be substantial sells numbers in the 357's though. Thankful even the above .40 single actions are still hanging in there.

The .357 is a lot of things, but "about dead" is certainly not one of them.

I don't think the .357 will "die" during our lifetimes; but I do see its popularity declining.

Lots of people packing compact 9mms now for people self defense who would otherwise be carrying a .357 40 years ago.

Lots of people packing .44 mag or 10mm for woods self defense who would have been packing a .357 long ago.

Spent some time out roaming the woods mushroom hunting today. Didn't see anything to shoot (or any mushrooms); but I had a Ruger SP101 .327 and a SW 69 .44 mag on me. I don't even own a .357.