Just out of curiosity - there are a LOT of choices out there. What is your favorite choice?
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Just out of curiosity - there are a LOT of choices out there. What is your favorite choice?
H&G # 503 and 4.8 gr WW231. A +P load.
Been buying Hornady Critical Defense for my .38 and .380.
3.1 grains Bullseye & Lyman full wadcutter. Accurate, easy to shoot, and penetrates well. The big flat nose creates about the best possible wound cavity for a non-hollowpoint boolit.
Speer Gold Dot 135 grain short barrel +P.
https://www.speer.com/ammunition/han...9-23921GD.html
38 special +P 158gr lead HP.
For my vintage 1972 Charter Arms Undercover .38 2" I use 148 grain DEWS w/ 3.5 grains Red Dot. for 785fps. Pretty accurate. Plus those guys do a pretty good job of tearing up a wet phone book.
Brassfetcher has some good data here for several of the loads already mentioned.
I like a +p 158 grain HP. I have used Winchester and Remington, but lately I have been making my own, owing to the lack of product on the shelves. A 358-429 MP HP mold casts right at 159.0 grains and loaded on top of 4.5 grains of WW231 or 5.8 grains of Power Pistol makes for a good duplicate.
For my aluminum framed snubbies, I use a Winchester mid-range wadcutter. I bought a case of them years ago, but never got around to using them up and still have half a dozen boxes.
H&G #50 WC, in front of 3. x gr. of Bullseye.
Either a Speer 135 gr short barrel GDHP, or a 158 gr SWC over a +p charge of Power Pistol.
Wen or Rem 158 gr SWCHP +P in 2" barreled revolver. I\d like to ge the Speer 135 GD's to try and compare.
Buffalo Bore .38 Special +P 158 grain SWC-GC HP. Over 1000 fps from a 2" snub and mid-1100s from a 4".
https://www.buffalobore.com/index.ph...t_detail&p=108
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPnCWwXHuIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTJYsc6PdEM
3.5 of Bullseye with a Lyman 358432.
Both accurate and sufficiently powerful.