Over twenty years as a police officer including several real world incidents with barrels that aspire to be 2 inches long has convinced me that in the real world bullets don't reliably expand from J frames and the like. I like 150 grain flat based wadcutters over 3.2 grains of BE in my steel framed Js. Buffalo Bore sells a standard pressure round that precludes the need to roll-yer-own. In an Al-you-minimum or Scarry-um frame I'd use the 148 grain hollow based wadcutter over 2.8 grains of BE or its commercial twin made by Rem, Fed or Olin er Chestwinster.

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