357 Maximum

[Lone Star]

I did not confuse anything nor did I misread your post. What I said in my post was 50K, what you assume is on you, you do understand about assume, do you not? You said PSI, I did not say, nor did I mean PSI.

We'll let the rest of the readers decide what you really meant, but after the defensive response above it seems pretty clear to me....

All the posturing about the SM is interesting, but it seems designed more to distract from the point of issue than to provide clarity. My credits: I bought SM brass from Elgin the first year he offered it through the Silhouette, but of course we know that Elgin originally intended to use heavy silhouette bullets in it, not the lightweight stuff Remington and the gunwriters used. Still, his chambering/throat specs were different than what Remington used in their .357 Maxi, which afterall is the subject of this thread. DW at one time did use dimensions closer to what Elgin envisioned, but I don't know about the smaller makers like ED. Firearms chambered to the .357 Maximum should use data for the .357 Maxi, not for the .357 SM.

But the bottom line remains the same. The poster asked what the differences were between the .357 Mag and the .357 Maxi. The .357 Maxi has a maximum chamber pressure of 48,000 psi/40,000 cup. Recommending pressures above SAMMI specs is, well, not too wise. Not specifiying the units you are using is irresponsible and could easily get the less informed into trouble. None of us want that.