Back when I first started with this stuff, I reloaded some reverse HBWC's with my Lee-Loader. I don't know what they'd have done on anything living, but they made an impressive cavity in a bank of damp, red Virginia Clay, when fired out of my 4" Model 19. I could have shoved my fist into it. It wasn't very deep, but I figured into solid earth, not much would have gone but so deep.
l never carried them. I figured I had found a pretty good load if I was ever attacked by a bank of damp, red, Virginia clay though. I never loaded any more of them. They were difficult to load using a speed-loader. A lot of wiggling to get them to go in all at once time. A speed-strip would have been faster, maybe, loading one at a time, but I can't remember if I tried that or not.
I ended up with factory 158 grain lead SWC in 38 special for my Model 19 sd my "serious ammo." There was no legal concealed carry, so that pretty much meant my nightstand.