Just wondering I was reading a book of one of my favorite authors and he made the comment of a steel jacketed slug ripping through the bad guys body. Only problem is this was set in the late 1890s. I know jacketed bullets were developed by the Rubin (Swiss) in 1882 and the French used Jacketed bullets in their Lebel in 1886. But I can find no mention doing a search on pistol bullets. It stands to reason there was no need to switch from lead to jacketed until the velocities got up there with smokeless powder. With the Holy Black lead bullets would have sufficed just fine and no need to jacket bullets. So does any one know when jacketed pistol bullets came into use? Date?