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Originally Posted by Otreb
A hardcast Wadcutter driven to better than target velocities might be an improvement over rnl, but aside from the shootability benefit of a target WC, they are IMO too slow and too soft for SD applications. They're hard pressed to get low 600fps...not fast enough to reliably break major bones that protect the spots you want to hit.
I guess they are better than nothing of course, but there's a lot of better choices.
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My wadcutters are chronographed at 950 fps out of my 1-7/8" 38 special snubby.
These are not over pressure loads, no flat primers, no sticky extraction, nothing unusual.
It is hard to stomach the amazing widespread ignorance of the fact that a wadcutter is a bullet shape, not a cartridge. Wadcutter shaped bullets can be loaded just as hot as any other shaped bullet.