{"id":1272,"date":"2024-08-30T01:01:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T01:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2024-08-30T01:01:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T01:01:58","slug":"ammo-brief-356-tsw-gun-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"Ammo Brief: .356 TSW &#8211; Gun Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div> <!-- image --><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"> <noscript><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/gundigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/356-tsw-feature-768x496.jpg\" alt=\"Ammo Brief: .356 TSW\" title=\"Ammo Brief: .356 TSW\"\/><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-we-take-a-quick-look-at-356-tsw-aka-356-team-smith-amp-wesson-one-weird-step-cousin-of-a-cartridge\"><strong>We take a quick look at .356 TSW, aka .356 Team Smith &amp; Wesson, one weird step-cousin of a cartridge<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The .356 TSW centerfire pistol cartridge was designed by Smith &amp; Wesson in 1994 as an IPSC round. The .356 TSW fit into a 9mm magazine, and Smith &amp; Wesson convinced Federal to load it and submit it for SAAMI-spec approval, where it saw promise as a Limited-class competition round.<\/p>\n<p>However, because of a rules change, USPSA didn\u2019t approve it for that class, and there were other rounds that were better choices for Open guns. Smith &amp; Wesson scrapped the project, effectively killing the cartridge. Federal case heads and the box were marked \u201c356 TSW.\u201d The load was a 147-grain FMJ Match product number GM356SW.<\/p>\n<p>The TSW is simply a slightly longer 9mm case (9\u00d721.5mm), and it uses ordinary 9mm bullets for reloading purposes. To meet IPSC\u2019s major power factor back then, the TSW had to send a 124-grain 9mm bullet at about 1,450 fps. A .356 TSW performs on par with hot 9\u00d721 IPSC loads or full-house .357 Sig loads, but it has an advantage over the .357 Sig.<\/p>\n<p>The Sig cartridge is a bottleneck round, a .40 S&amp;W case necked down to 9mm. The .356 TSW is a straight-walled 9mm casing, thus more .356 rounds can fit into a magazine. The .356 TSW was mainly chambered in 150 Smith &amp; Wesson Model 3566 Performance Center .356 TSW pistols.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-loading-data-and-factory-ballistics\"><strong>Loading Data and Factory Ballistics<\/strong><\/h4>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Bullet<br \/>(GRAINS\/TYPE)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>POWDER<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>GRAINS<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>VELOCITY<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>ENERGY<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>SOURCE<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>147 Federal Match FMJ<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>FL<\/td>\n<td>FL<\/td>\n<td>1,220<\/td>\n<td>486<\/td>\n<td>Federal GM356SW<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>124 Winchester FMJ<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>VV3N37<\/td>\n<td>9.1<\/td>\n<td>1,446<\/td>\n<td>576<\/td>\n<td>IPSC Loads List 2001<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>This article is an excerpt of\u00a0<em>Gun Digest&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gundigeststore.com\/product\/precision-rifle-marksmanship-the-fundamentals-a-marine-snipers-guide-to-long-range-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gundigeststore.com\/product\/cartridges-of-the-world-17th-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cartridge&#8217;s Of The World<\/a><\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>Raise Your Ammo IQ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-27\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div style=\"border: 2px solid #e5e5e5; padding: 20px; border-radius: 10px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-271572\" src=\"https:\/\/gundigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/44-Targetposters-pack-GD-reduced-300-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"44-Targetposters-pack-GD-reduced-300\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\"\/><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-271572\" src=\"https:\/\/gundigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/44-Targetposters-pack-GD-reduced-300-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"44-Targetposters-pack-GD-reduced-300\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #333; text-align: center;\">Next Step: Get your FREE Printable Target Pack<\/h2>\n<p>Enhance your shooting precision with our 62 MOA Targets, perfect for rifles and handguns. 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The .356 TSW fit into a 9mm magazine, and Smith &amp; Wesson convinced Federal to load it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tactical-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}