Many years ago, I experimented with the 148 HBWC loaded backward over 2.8 grains of Bullseye. Out of a 4", Model 19, from about five yards or so, they'd make a hole in a bank of red Virginia clay that I could shove my fist into. It was pretty impressive actually.
I was ready if I was ever attacked by a bank of red Virginia clay.
I never carried them of course. Back then you had to know somebody, who knew somebody, who knew someone else to get a carry permit. I didn't know anybody. I had one box of 357 ammo I'd bought that I loaded the revolver with for "home defense" but never actually fired any of them. Too expensive to replace.