I’ll either run the factory ammo I have or the handloads I’ve made.
"$Free.99" is one of my favorite price points!
My mother was capable of sending an obscene quantity of H.G. #50 148gr. WC's through her GP-100 when she got going, and the little soup cans are not bad at messing up the water bottles and cans we usually use as targets. Cast them out of "whatever" soft alloy is laying around and tumble lube them - at about 700 fps, you don't need to bring the NASA engineers along to get them to work.
Unless you (Mr. Zee) have already done this, I think Science ( ! ) demands I set up a jug bust with those wadcutters out of a snubby and a 6" at some point in the near future. They are just too popular a low-recoil option - both off the shelf and handload - for us not to have solidified info on what they're capable of. (How long is your backlog of things that need to kill a trapped feral pig these days? The Moms of the World are depending on us! )
The conventional wisdom on this is that they tumble. To confirm this against the similar lore of the 200 grain British .38 S&W Webley load, I sandwiched sheets of soda can between the jugs. Worked well:
I’ll either run the factory ammo I have or the handloads I’ve made.
"$Free.99" is one of my favorite price points!
My mother was capable of sending an obscene quantity of H.G. #50 148gr. WC's through her GP-100 when she got going, and the little soup cans are not bad at messing up the water bottles and cans we usually use as targets. Cast them out of "whatever" soft alloy is laying around and tumble lube them - at about 700 fps, you don't need to bring the NASA engineers along to get them to work.
Unless you (Mr. Zee) have already done this, I think Science ( ! ) demands I set up a jug bust with those wadcutters out of a snubby and a 6" at some point in the near future. They are just too popular a low-recoil option - both off the shelf and handload - for us not to have solidified info on what they're capable of. (How long is your backlog of things that need to kill a trapped feral pig these days? The Moms of the World are depending on us! )
The conventional wisdom on this is that they tumble. To confirm this against the similar lore of the 200 grain British .38 S&W Webley load, I sandwiched sheets of soda can between the jugs. Worked well:
I'll probably do this with the WC's as well.
I already put them through jugs on one of my .38 Spl/.357 Mag threads. Can’t remember which.
"To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
To dumb to function but still useful enough to learn from. 🎓
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience -- Mark Twain How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
I saw the rest of his “instructional” videos. No reason to be kind, or for him to be instructing anyone…. He was always good for a laugh though. There was another video, long since gone, in which he showed how to do an after-shoot assessment. I almost peed myself! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I shot some +P .38 spl once in a LCR and will not again except in an emergency.
I'm almost 80, personally I would stick to just .38 special in a LCR and do.
Have to agree, esp if it was a house gun for the wife and I. I could handle the +p but it's very snappy. Sure beats getting the alternative in gunfight.
The Ruger Sp101 in 357 was far easier to shoot with full magnums.
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My mother was capable of sending an obscene quantity of H.G. #50 148gr. WC's through her GP-100 when she got going, and the little soup cans are not bad at messing up the water bottles and cans we usually use as targets. Cast them out of "whatever" soft alloy is laying around and tumble lube them - at about 700 fps, you don't need to bring the NASA engineers along to get them to work.
Unless you (Mr. Zee) have already done this, I think Science ( ! ) demands I set up a jug bust with those wadcutters out of a snubby and a 6" at some point in the near future. They are just too popular a low-recoil option - both off the shelf and handload - for us not to have solidified info on what they're capable of. (How long is your backlog of things that need to kill a trapped feral pig these days? The Moms of the World are depending on us!
The conventional wisdom on this is that they tumble. To confirm this against the similar lore of the 200 grain British .38 S&W Webley load, I sandwiched sheets of soda can between the jugs. Worked well:
I'll probably do this with the WC's as well.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
The Ruger Sp101 in 357 was far easier to shoot with full magnums.
Winston Churchill