Wadcutters For Snubbies

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We’ve discussed wadcutters here before. Many of you advocate their use.

So I did some research. It turns out that many of those “in the know” agree.

Shot placement and penetration should be first and foremost. Expansion a distant second.

After hundreds if not thousands of autopsy studies, wadcutters simply work.

So I made the switch to Underwood 150gr wadcutter. 1000 fps out of a four inch barrel. Drops down to around 850 fps out of a two inch barrel.

Will do some testing today at the range.

But don’t take my word for it. Research the following.

Dr. Martin Fackler
Dr. Gary Roberts (DocGKR)
Chuck Haggard
And several others

YouTube. “Primary and Secondary”.
 
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I used to shoot mid range wadcutters. Now I don't care what gun 38 or 357, I use SWC.

I shot many pounds of SWC back when I was doing a lot of PPC shooting.

As reloading was from speed loader, by going to SWC over WCs it gave me a bit more controlled loading speed. That was both for my model 28 6'' and "off duty class gun', a Model 15 2''.

No I was not a LEO, off duty was a fun class with barrel restrictions to 2 1/2'' Gave up looking for a 19 that had that longer by 1/2 barrel, back then many S&Ws revolvers were hard to find!
 
They seemed to do pretty well in the Lucky Gunner testing also. Penetration being almost perfect even out of a 2" barrel.


What was the penetration of? Pine boards? Ballistic gel? A 400lb fat tub of lard who decides he wants your car/money/valuables?

Based on the mug shots I see, a large % of thugs aren't missing any meals. Throw a heavy winter coat into that mix & then color me skeptical. :cool:

My .o2
 
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