Monochrome
Active Member
After reading through several years worth of articles from the online magazine sites, promoting the use of wadcutters loaded warm to hot for self defense in small guns, something hit me as being strange.
The Federal American Eagle 38 special RNL 158 grain generic plinking ammo features a small dished surface in the base to promote obturation. Although every fired bullet i have recovered has NEVER had any sign of the outer edge of this concave dish EXPANDING OUTWARDS, I was hit with the question
Why has a dished surface like this never actually been done to wadcutter? If loaded "dish" down, youd get better obturation. And loaded "dish" up, youd get expansion. Think on the possibility of your wimpy little wadcutter actually expanding on a varmint it hits. sure you may need to load it to 900 fps but ALLIANT has valid load data to push a DEWC to 1200 FPS.. in a handgun.
The Federal American Eagle 38 special RNL 158 grain generic plinking ammo features a small dished surface in the base to promote obturation. Although every fired bullet i have recovered has NEVER had any sign of the outer edge of this concave dish EXPANDING OUTWARDS, I was hit with the question
Why has a dished surface like this never actually been done to wadcutter? If loaded "dish" down, youd get better obturation. And loaded "dish" up, youd get expansion. Think on the possibility of your wimpy little wadcutter actually expanding on a varmint it hits. sure you may need to load it to 900 fps but ALLIANT has valid load data to push a DEWC to 1200 FPS.. in a handgun.