armsmaster270
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Speer Gold Dots and Winchester Ranger SXT's in .45, .40, .38/.357, 357Sig and 9mm. Also Winchester Ranger +P+ in 9mm and Federal +P+ 110grJHP in 38Spl
SFsc616171 I choose the following rounds for my .38 Special revolvers, based on the fact that my revolvers were designed for lead bullets.
1. 158 grain standard pressure, standard design lead semi-wadcutters.
2. 148 grain standard pressure wadcutters, preferring double-ended, but will use hollow based, if that is what is available, at the moment.
Semi-wadcutters have been shot out from revolvers, prior to 1928, when Elmer Keith and his particular deisgn semiwadcutters became the rage. So why trade perfection, for an engineered piece of metal, which is designed to fail at certain parameters, and may not, due to someone's tailor?
Wadcutters, being 'soda cans of lead', are mistakenly and solely assigned to punching holes in paper. Now, it is on the record, from the 1950's, that inner city plainclothesmen utilized these rounds in their service snubnose revolver. It is also on record that Civil Defense officials issued S&W Model 15's, with full wadcutter loads. These 'soda cans of lead' are recorded to function as personal defense rounds, again, without an engineered 'designed to fail' ogive, that may or may not 'work as advertised'.
Lastly, both rounds deliver a manageable amount of recoil, and allow a quick return to second shot, that other rounds might not.