none of this is applicable unless you reload:
I have fooled around with these bullets, go up to 230 grains
https://www.pennbullets.com/38/38-caliber.htmlFollowing something written by shoemaker years ago were 180 grain fmj's
and i have hard cast keith style 170 grain bullets for 357magnum. These i cast myself.
off the top of my head they were not max loads, but around 1000fps or so.
I do know shooting them into river rock, which is hard rock, they were cracking the rock.
impressed the snot out of me.
I was firing them out of a model 28 too.
i have never believed in a big bore handgun than on recoil is hard to manage for the second shot, given how fast a bear is.
My wife shoots a model 66 smith better than most men can.
She is 80 years old.
i think those 170 grain keith bullets is gonna stop anything she might be faced with two legged or four legged.
