ChristopherG
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Many a thread confirms the ubiquitous popularity of the .38 snub as a carry gun; and many of those same threads include knowledgeable caveats about the limitations of .38 special performance from a 2" barrel. We have, it seems, but two real options for defense rounds: either a range of relatively lightweight hollowpoints that attempt to make the speed necessary to expand, and thereby potentially sacrifice adequate penetration (though these are admittedly improving); or the classic LSWCHP in a 'full-size' 158 gr. bullet that will penetrate, but which, soft and mushy as it is, still does not appear to give very reliable expansion.
So my question: Why hasn't Federal recognized that they could sell a boatload of their new EFMJ product if they put it in a .38? Wouldn't the perhaps unspectacular but apparently reliable expansion of the EFMJ be attractive? Mightn't they package it in a heavierweight bullet that split the horns of the .38 snub ammo dilemma? What think you, oh wise ones?
Getting by on inadequate and/or aged projectile technology,
ChristopherG
So my question: Why hasn't Federal recognized that they could sell a boatload of their new EFMJ product if they put it in a .38? Wouldn't the perhaps unspectacular but apparently reliable expansion of the EFMJ be attractive? Mightn't they package it in a heavierweight bullet that split the horns of the .38 snub ammo dilemma? What think you, oh wise ones?
Getting by on inadequate and/or aged projectile technology,
ChristopherG