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I had a 1911 in 38 special that only shot wad cutters. I had to use certain brass that was thinner or it would not feed well. I only used factory wad cutter ammo, and used that brass. If I used other brass I would have a slight bulge. I should have kept that one, and many others.
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Their purpose is to make very clear, cookie cutter, holes in paper targets for the purpose of easy scoring in bullseye matches. They also tend to be lightly loaded for more pleasant shooting, without concern for causing flinching.
That's it very succinctly.
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...never had much use for them...
My first centerfire handgun was a 1970 vintage Model 19...put a documented 20K rounds through it in the 10 years that I had it and zero wadcutters ever went through the gun...for that matter there was a total of only 6 rounds of .38 Special ever through the gun and only 1-2 boxes of factory .357s. Cast wise 99% were the 358156 Lyman/Thompson gas check bullet with the remainder of the jacketed bullets being the 146 grain Speer HP and Sierra JHCs.... From it's sale in 1980 till the early 2000s I never had a .38 or .357 revolver that I can remember. All I shot was .38 Super and .41 Magnum. Were not any commercially available wadcutters available for .41s at that point.
Have always found that a SWC is just as accurate at close range and way more accurate at long range and cuts a nice round hole in a paper target. They also can be loaded into a cylinder much faster than flat faced wadcutters by most people.
Guess I can see the point of having them around for making up low velocity target loads for initial training of people to shoot a centerfire handgun but for me it would just be one more bullet in the inventory that rarely gets used...
That said I do now have two WC molds for my .41s. A 165 grain LEE PRECISION and a MP HBWC that also has pins to make it a full wadcutter. The MP gets shot usually as a big HP and I will probably use the 165 in plinking loads in the .41 Special for the Taurus Titanium Tracker...
But I am sure they work for a lot of folks otherwise they would have vanished from the ammo shelves...
Bob
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Anybody have a good source for 148gr wadcutters? Been shooting the Hornady's but they are pretty expensive.
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THE CHAIR IS AGAINST THE WALL. The Tikka T3 in .308 Winchester is the Glock 19 of the rifle world. The website is up and running!www.lostriverammocompany.com
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If you can not deal with reality, reality will deal with you....
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I've been using these HST's when the J-frame gets the nod - 130 grain +P. There's a wadcutter in there somewhere. ![[Linked Image from loungecdn.luckygunner.com]](https://loungecdn.luckygunner.com/lounge/media/HST-pulled-bullet.jpg)
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I've been using these HST's when the J-frame gets the nod - 130 grain +P. There's a wadcutter in there somewhere. I carry those alternating in the cylinder with a couple of the Buffalo Bore 150 gr. hardcast in my Airweight J Frames.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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I've been using these HST's when the J-frame gets the nod - 130 grain +P. There's a wadcutter in there somewhere. I carry those alternating in the cylinder with a couple of the Buffalo Bore 150 gr. hardcast in my Airweight J Frames. Have you overcome the feeling that your speed loader is full of empties? 
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LOL... I carry a Speed Strip with the Speer Gold Dot SB load so I'm good.
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