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Originally Posted by Doug M.
#4 is generally considered to have sub-optimal penetration on an offender wearing a heavy jacket.
In a .38, it is hard to go wrong with plain old wadcutters, with SWC also a good choice and used as reloads. If I were really pushing for HPs, it would likely be the Black Hills with the all copper Barnes bullet.
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But how to get #4 buck through a Model 10?
Yeah, going by the tests, #1 is the smallest buck that still makes protocol penetration. I've also found #4 kicks more and spreads wide fast compared to a dedicated defense buck load like Remington's Managed Recoil or the Federal LE Flight Control rounds.
As for wadcutters, I follow the discussions on their defensive utility, but assume it's the bullet itself that's being discussed, loaded to defense velocities; I'd assume the cream puff "waductters" -- meaning match loads -- at approximately 600 feet persecond would be a bit weak for defense?
