brewer12345
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I will be headed to the range on Friday to try out a new snubnose 38. When I wandered through Cabela's last week they had a sale on Hornady swaged 148 grain HBWCs, so I bought some and rolled up some 38s with this bullet seated flush and 3.7 grains of HP38, shooting for a little over starting load data from Hodgdon (they give a range of 3.5 and 4.0). Now that I do a bit more noodling around I see people saying they load as light as 3 grains with this particular bullet. I have zero experience with HBWCs, is 3.7 grains anything to worry about? I know that pressure isn't an issue, just don't want to be inadvertently in the range where I am risking blowing the skirt off the bullet.