Mean Load
I was once pestered by armadillos crawling around my blind in my goose hunting spreads, so I carried a 2 in. Charter Arms Undercover .38 with HBWC's loaded upside down to ward off the beasts. Dillos have a hard shell hide like a pair of heavy boots, but the HBWC's would always punch through both sides and dispatch the dillo in short order, albeit at close range. Entry wound was a sharp, round hole, as if by a cookie cutter. Exit wound was pretty nasty. The 6 or 8 in. of intervening dillo was a mess, and the dillo never knew what happened. There's not a lot of shock in a target speed HBWC, but all those sharp edges cause trouble on the way through.
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