Several months ago, I said some rather harsh things about my Sig P229 when converted to 357Sig caliber. Since then, I've read some intriguing stuff about the caliber, and decided to knock off another box of the 450 rounds I have left of the FMJ training ammo. For some reason, this time the round acted more like a floofy kitteh, and did just about everything but purr. Here's the results of a couple of magazines at 10 yards, complete with me throwing rounds to the left until I remembered trigger-finger placement again.
There was no hugh muzzle blast, no sharp recoil, and the rounds went mostly where I wanted them to go.
When I was down to my last two rounds, I loaded a magazine, and tried a double-tap at ten yards. It's against range rules, but considering how fast some of the other shooters were sending lead downrange, I got away with it. The whole purpose was to put the sights on the target, and rap off two rounds as quickly as possible.
The final thing that convinced me that the Sig357 was on its best behavior was when I recovered all 50 pieces of empty brass. Some of it was three lanes over, but they were all accounted for. That bottleneck case made them easy to spot.
Am I getting set up for some sort of fake-out if I continue to spend quality time with this cartridge? Everything went just about perfectly on this second "date".