Looked at buying a .357 Coonan a few months back, but it only came with one mag. Apparently extra mags are tough to find, and well over $100 each, if & when you find 'em. I said "no thanks"...
Bought a pair of them with cross draw holsters from lav swat detective many years ago. Polished & jeweled with six mags. Mags were going for $150 each, if you could find them.
Took both to a 1911 armorer and asked him to take them apart and put together the best pistol. He’d never fired one and said he’d do the work of I fired them first while he watched. He was very excited after I fired them and couldn’t n wait to shoot them. Like a kid in a candy shop, he kept saying; day Um
He built a nice pistol, but they were evenly matched. 3.5 lbs trigger pull that breaks crisp and is dead accurate for each of them.
Kept four mags.
Sold that other with two mags, which still shot great and same trigger for market value and my pistol with four mags ended up costing me less that $900.
Wish I’d never sold it, but it helped pay off credit card debt last year.
If you ever get a chance to shoot the .357 you will be very impressed. Long slide action and long front to rear grip due to long.357 brass makes it a solid grip with very predictable return to sight picture. MUST have large hands though. They breath fire! BBQ a face off if you miss. No loss of ME, like in a revolver due to gases escaping between the cylinder and forcing cone. Most powerful.357 ever owned.
I miss it
Used to bet my buddies when we went to the range...”guarantee someone with chase the ejected brass to try and figure out what it is or someone WILL ASK what it is” incredible percussion...sounded like 454 casul. Should have named it a cannon, instead of after Dan Coonan
I never lost that bet for beers =o)