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I took up shooting in January this year. Had a 2 hr lesson from Tracy Campbell in which he provided several guns for me to try out from 38 Special to 45 ACP - found it really excellent. Took Tracy's CHL course a few days later -- also excellent. Have been back to Shiloh a few times since for practice using my own guns of which I now have three (Beretta 92FS, Walther P99C AS, and S&W M&P340CT.

I understand that any ammo with magnum on it is not allowed at Shiloh. I would like to shoot some Gold Dot 357 Magnum Short Barrel from my J-frame revolver. The Short Barrel cartridge gives energy of 294 ft lb (135 grains, 990 ft/sec) compared with well over 500 ft lb of energy for full house 357 magnums. Is the Short Barrel magnum cartridge really objectionable from a noise or any other point of view -- I've never fired one so don't know from personal experience?

PS: Received my CHL the other day -- it took 30 days from sending in the application.