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This gun’s barrel is a thin steel liner wrapped inside an aluminum shroud, and its cylinder is made of Titanium. Like most such guns I’ve seen, it hits way low from where its fixed sights are aimed. I cannot shoot +P lead bullets (the “FBI Load”) in it because the recoil is so violent it pulls them loose. Jacketed +P is the preferred load. The one qualification I shot with this was with jacketed CCI 158-grain +P. Recoil was so vicious I was glad I had a shooting glove in the car. When it was over, I was down two points. Rather than try again for a perfect score, I took what I had. It was hurting to shoot the thing. This gun is not as accurate as the all-steel or Airweight, putting most .38 Special loads in 3-inch to 7-inch groups at 25 yards. Weight, unloaded, is 11.3 ounces.

Model 340 Sc Scandium

Chambered for .357 Magnum, this gun manages not to tear up the FBI load in the gun’s chambers, but doesn’t shoot it worth a damn for accuracy. Admittedly, this isn’t the most accurate .38 Special cartridge made, but the load gives me about 5 inches at 25 yards in my Airweight, versus 15 inches of what I can only call spray out of this gun, with bullets showing signs of beginning to keyhole. This gun also shot way low. Recoil with Magnum loads was nothing less than savage. The little Scandium beast was somewhat more accurate with other rounds, but not impressively so. After five rounds, the hands were giving off that tingling sensation that says to the brain, “WARNING! POTENTIAL NERVE DAMAGE.” When passed among several people who shoot .44 Magnum and .480 Ruger revolvers for fun, the response was invariably, “Those five shots were enough, thanks.” I didn’t even try to shoot a 50-shot qualification with it. Unloaded weight is 12.0 ounces.