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there is nothing marginal about a 357 out of a rifle length barrel.
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4 : close to the lower limit of qualification, acceptability, or function : barely exceeding the minimum requirements
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What's the minimum requirement?
Legally, in my state of residence, the min requirement for a legal rifle to hunt deer with is 900 ft/lbs energy @100 yards. Even Buffalo Bore's hottest loads using their own ballistic data barely make that. So from a legal standpoint where I hunt, it's marginal.
Generally speaking, is there a weaker cartidge that would be acceptable to you as "enough gun"? Of the dozens upon dozens of chamberings for "deer rifles" I'm pretty sure you can't name 10 modern chamberings that are weaker than the .357 magnum.... it's at the bottom edge: It's marginal, at best, if loaded hot with a quality bullet and shot out of a rifle.