azhunter122
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I just got a box of wadcutter ammo and noticed that they are tiny compared to normal .38's and the bullet stops at the top of the brass? Why are they like that, and are wadcutters any good at all?
And to this day the 148gr wadcutter remains a good defensive round recommened by many experts for self defense because they're soft shooting and the sharp profile of the bullet creates a wound path thats the actual width of the bullet instead of something like 60% as wide as the bullet like a round nosed bullet would.Back in the fifties we used to handload slightly souped up wadcutter loads as a defensive round for the dick special and the Smith 36.