Anyone have experience with Buffalo Bore .38 Special 150gr. short barrel wadcutter?

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stevieboy

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I just picked up a box of these as a primary defensive round for my S & W Model 64 snub. It's advertised as a highly effective defensive round made of hard cast lead with a velocity of 850fps. Supposedly, it has low flash and is controllable. I'm wondering: have any of you tried this round?

I'm attracted to it because I intend to carry my 64 mainly in the field and what I'm most concerned about is predators of the four-legged variety. In those circumstances a deep penetrating wadcutter would seem to be an pretty good choice for a snub. Also, my 64 appears to shoot to POA with rounds in the 148-158gr. range, but tends to shoot several inches below POA with lighter rounds. I don't want to be fiddling with sight placement in an emergency.
 
They're a deep penetrator/nonexpander. I've fired them from my S&W snub and was impressed. I keep a box on hand.
 
In my opinion there is no better .38 special ammunition in terms of accuracy, recoil, and straight-line penetration. Plus the maximum meplat will cause much destruction way our of proportion to it's "energy" and ballistics. Goes two feet in ballistic gelatin.
 
I tried a couple boxes in my S&W 642. I found they were no better then my reloaded 150 SWCs (Lyman 358477).

Velocity was the same, as was penetration. For me its not worth the price.
 
Velocity was the same, as was penetration. For me its not worth the price.
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But the theory of using a full wadcutter is that the blunt face and "sharp" corners will damage more tissue than a round nose and, presumably, a SWC. This is obviously something very difficult or impossible to quantify. I carried full wadcutters in snubbies until Speer came out with their 135 gr. Gold Dot JHP for short barrels.
 
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