.357 Magnum Round

The .357 Magnum round is a type of ammunition in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The .357 Magnum round, a Magnum handgun cartridge manufactured by Big Chief, has a significant powder load making it a very powerful cartridge for a pistol round, and acceptable for use in carbine length lever-action rifles.

Production
.357 Magnum standard and JFP rounds can be crafted at a reloading bench. A single cartridge requires the following:

Breakdown
Breaking down a standard .357 Magnum round yields:

Weapons using this ammunition

 * .357 Magnum revolver
 * Lucky
 * Police pistol
 * Cowboy repeater
 * La Longue Carabine
 * K9000 cyberdog gun

.357 Magnum, hollow point
Hollow point bullets are designed to mushroom out, expanding up to five times their original size. This results in a jagged, gory wound much larger than the actual round. Hollow points lack the penetrating power to punch through denser materials due to the fact that their force is distributed over a larger area, drastically reducing the weapon's penetrating power.

.357 Magnum, JFP (hand load)
JFPs (or jacketed flat points) are blunt, copper-wrapped bullets designed to flatten on impact like a hollow point, but retain the penetrating power of a copper-jacket slug. As such, they inflict greater damage, penetrate enemy armor better, and even fly straighter than normal .357 rounds. They require the Hand Loader perk to craft.

.38 Special round
.38 Special rounds are a less powerful cartridge than .357 Magnum rounds. They can be fired from any weapon capable of firing a .357 Magnum because the latter was developed from the .38 Special round, and, despite the name, they share all the same dimensions except case length. Though the reduction in powder means less damage inflicted on the target, it also means less wear and tear per shot on the gun.

Locations

 * After the completion of the Dead Money add-on, the player character may receive up to 48 rounds of .357 Magnum ammunition (552 rounds if they also received a complimentary voucher) from the Sierra Madre vending machine in the abandoned Brotherhood of Steel bunker every 72 hours.
 * The armor locker in the vault at the end of Dead Money can contain up to 2,000 rounds.
 * Cliff Briscoe at the Dino Bite gift shop in Novac randomly stocks .357 Magnum rounds.
 * Chet often stocks ammo boxes of .38 Special Rounds

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