NoirFan
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Just got back into loading for my revolver after close to half a year and I’m enjoying myself. I was loading up some 38 special SWCHPs and got to wondering, why doesn’t anyone sell powder coated hollow points? It seems like a no brainer!
You get the cleanliness of the powder coat plus the expansion of soft lead HP - especially important with low-speed calibers like the 38 which have trouble expanding many jacketed hollow points. Conversely, powder coated bullets are also low-friction so they get better velocities for a given powder charge either than lead or jacketed, but suffer no accuracy penalty. If I could buy reasonably priced 158gr coated LHPs for 38/357 I would probably never buy any other kind of bullet.
You get the cleanliness of the powder coat plus the expansion of soft lead HP - especially important with low-speed calibers like the 38 which have trouble expanding many jacketed hollow points. Conversely, powder coated bullets are also low-friction so they get better velocities for a given powder charge either than lead or jacketed, but suffer no accuracy penalty. If I could buy reasonably priced 158gr coated LHPs for 38/357 I would probably never buy any other kind of bullet.