Best cartridge for a revolver

[Superglide]

Correct answer to best cartridge for a revolver is:

The one whose headstamp matches the caliber stamped on the revolver.

 

[Hueco]

Thats what they make hair die for kind of like a Ruger convertible you can change from 357 to 9mm or from a blond to a red head

Buddy, if you think hair dye changes a blond to a red...have I got news for you.

 

[LHancock]

One for show, one for go and one for OH NO!! I know, not .357, but it's a wheelie.

 

[coop44]

Welcome to firearms 101, a free class where you get to pick our brains, take advantage of decades of experience and all for free!!

 

[nammac]

As @CLT65 eloquently stated, revolver perfection came 147 years ago with the 1873 Colt Peacemaker in .45 Long Colt. My Urberti 1873 Colt Peacemaker replica.


If there was to be just one revolver to do it all, for me it'd be a .45 Long Colt revolver.

 

[LHancock]

I can not argue. Meet my traveling pardners. Both 45 LC.

 

[XoXSciFiGuy]

Well, 45 Long Colt was the round shouted for by Russell Crowe in The Quick and the Dead.

 

[techiej]

If you reload the cartridges then any as you can run them as hot or mild as you want.

I currently reload and enjoy all of mine - 357, 44, and 45 colt.

For the 45 I load them all mild. For the others I have full power and bunny fart loads...just depends upon the purpose.

The other thing I like about all of them is I can run them in lever guns for even more velocity out of the same load.

 

[orygun]

I've owned a handful of revolvers, most chambered for a Magnum cartridge. 357, 41, 44, 500. Heck, I even had a 357 Maximum!
I think the 41 is the very best, but since the rest of the world doesn't, there's very little available for it. Remington started out right with two distinct power levels, but it just never got popular. The Model 69 S&W I had would have been perfect if it had been a 41. (For anyone that reloads, unfortunately)

Availability and flexibility have brought me back to the 357.
The one I have now is a 3" J-Frame. It's a fantastic little fireball.

 

[Lead Ball]

I agree with every body on here I still think the 357 edges out on top. Some might say well it can't stop a charging Grizzly true but I wouldn't want to depend on a Smith 500, 45-70 or 12 gage either they would stop him eventually but I dont know about in their tracks. Its just the 357 has enough of everything wide power range, amo availability, very compact or hunting mode and very good in a carbin just my thoughts which ain't worth anything if I could have one of everything I would

 

[tac]

 

[bbbass]

We should have a "smilie" for the top of such threads that indicate they are just for discussion/spitballin and not that somebody/OP needs/wants the information. But perhaps use of the word "Best" in the thread title should be the tipoff right there!!

My $0.02:

1. I "like" a .357 the best for it's versatility.
2. I "like" my old S&W Model 57 in .41Mag with a 4" barrel best as a neat gun with a fun and effective round.
3. I "like" the .45LC best as a mankiller because the only man I know that has killed two miscreants as a civilian used it.
4. I "like" a .22lr best for plinking or shooting squirrels and snakes and I can have it in a semi-auto pistol or rifle too.

Now, what is "best":
1. 9mm or .45acp
2. 9mm or .40SW
3. .40SW or .45acp
3. 10mm or 38Super
4. 45/70 or 444Marlin
5. .308 or 6.5Swede
6. Lever gun or bolt
7. Best cartridge for deer hunting
8. Best cartridge for elk hunting
9. Best cartridge for varmint hunting
10. Best cartridge for moose hunting
11. Best cartridge for hunting
12. Best rifle for hunting
13. Best rifle for long range shooting
14. Best rifle
15. Best iron sights
16. Best scope for hunting
17 Best fishing rod
18. Best car
19. Best knife

And lastly (tho I could go on),

20. Lite or Microbrew

 

[Dinglenutz]

I love my TRR8, for what it's worth.

Also, if you can't have an Asian .... redhead.