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Somewhere on this forum there's a great story about some gel testing with military brass in attendance. The star of the show, IIRC, was an old 38/44 load that penetrated all available gelatin,...

Maybe not!

Hatcher pegs the 195 grain 386177 over 3.0 grains of Bullseye at 700 f/s from a 6" barrel. (Textbook, p 362). That should be good for at least 2 feet of bare gel penetration and...

I'll take this:

SAECO lubesizer with .4285 die & top punch, nice shape. $100 Will be partially dismantled for shipping.

PM incoming.

It sounds counter-intuitive, but where recoil is an issue, the heavier bullet (at a lower velocity) may be the better choice.

The table below shows the velocities required for .44 caliber...

I'll take T (along with I and J from your previous post).

I'll take I and J. PM incoming.

Load the 215 grain HBWC as intended, with the hollow base facing the powder. At 700 f/s that should reliably give about 18" of penetration in bare 10% gelatin with about 40 grams of wound mass by...

And here is yesterday's ultimate load for the ultimate snubby:...

+1 for all that. And to put PLENTY of penetration into perspective, Fackler's wound profiles show about 28" of penetration in bare gelatin for 9mm ball and 21" (with a 180 degree "flip" in the...

Yes! And an inexperienced shooter with just enough practice for familiarity could easily develop a flinch to negate any possible gain from the multi-projectile load.

One advantage of the four 000...

Or like Keith's 260 grain .44 Special Belding & Mull bullet. Here's a pic from Sixguns, page 281.

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Anyone seriously considering the Judge for self-defense should seriously watch these two videos by Shooting the Bull:

Judging The Judge: Public Defender Review, Part 1: Claims vs Reality
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To me, "full-sized snubby" seems almost a contradiction in terms. But the OP did specify "full size grip, short barrel, full 6-shot capacity."

Here's a Webley Metropolitan Police model that meets...

You are entirely welcome. But VIRGEL is best used interactively. The interface is designed to instantaneously predict how changes in bullet parameters (nose shape, diameter, weight, and velocity)...

Yes. That should "do the trick."

Here's a screenshot showing predicted data for that load along with the wound mass numbers for other loads for comparison.

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Note that the wound...

What!? Only 620 ft/s? How "anemic." :wink:

And they're small!

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From Hatcher's Textbook of Pistols and Revolvers, pp. 174-5:

"At Springfield Armory the thousands of automatic pistols specially selected for use at the National Matches are targeted by the use...

I've loaded 4.0 grains of Red Dot under a pair of 150 grain wadcutters deep-seated in .44 Special cases. This gives about 600 f/s from a 2" Bulldog. Based on that, I'd start with 5.0 grains of...

Your reload that got my attention was the heavy XTP at something north of 900 f/s. IIRC that load expanded to about 0.40" in water and had a predicted wound mass (by MacPherson's calculation)...

For expansion, there's not much difference between water, real 10% gel, and tissue. And the bullet expansion happens early on where the velocity is highest.

I'd try a milk carton full of water to expand the bullets and cardboard boxes full of pillow stuffing to catch them.

I've tried a single cantenna at the target -- either directly on the camera module or on a separate ESP32 access point to which the camera connects. I've also tried a cantenna on both ends. Never...

300 yards shouldn't be that hard. Here's a screenshot of a wifi scan from the firing line with the camera cantenna at the 200 yard butts.

https://rewebster.org/pics/wifi_scan.png

The dBm units...

1) Save yourself some headaches and get a camera module that piggy-backs with a plug in board with a micro USB connector. The Amazon ad will say something like "ESP32-CAM-MB" (the "MB" somehow...