Late 70's through about 1980-81 if memory serves me correctly. There was a little lull in availability between the time the original Burczynski design (marketed by Hydra-Shok Corp) was acquired and subsequently revamped by Federal before it was reintroduced under their label.Originally Posted by Hambo
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Can't get to the ammo cache right now, but I have a partial, red box of wadcutters with the hydrashock post. When I started CCW in the early '80s in MA, this load was what my LE acquaintances (the only folks I knew other than those in my military unit who carried all the time) recommended. All of them (not some of them) had a j frame in the off side pocket (jacket or pants) so loaded.
I think I still have four .38 Special Hydra-Shok Scorpion wadcutters, from the early Eighties. I had only managed to buy a very few.
When I carried an S&W Model 629, as a duty revolver, from mid-March 1984 to mid-March 1985, I had some very few Hydra-Shok .44 Mag JHPs, though I do not recall whether I carried them on the street, or just experimented with them. (At the end of that year, I could, then, carry an auto, and switched to a 9mm HK P7, for about half a year, to allow my hand to heal. I resumed carrying a big-bore sixgun, by late 1985, it was a Model 58, loaded with .41 Mag 175-grain Winchester Silvertips.)
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Wow, that box brings back some memories. My mom carried the 357 version of those in her model 13 revolver from the mid 80's until I got her gun after she passed in 2012.
She shot a guy that was breaking into my dad's truck in our driveway using that same round. I remember hearing him scream after he was hit then he hauled ass back to the getaway car. Great memories.
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Here's her model 13 with 2 hydrashocks left and some random winchester 357 mag loads. That what 30 years of purse carry looks like. She never changed her carry setup.
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I think that they tested pretty well in gel. Too bad Federal doesn’t make them any more.Still have a few boxes of these. I shot a small buck with them once ..... he wasn't terribly impressed.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
Hydra Shoks and later NyClads were hard to obtain. The new soft lead polymer coated lead revolver bullets that reloaders use appear to have their roots from the Hydra Shok days.
Guys I know who hunt with the almost pure lead coated bullets in 44 and 45 drive them at Magnum velocities and claim no leading and good expansion on deer sized game (white tail deer).
Probably going to try some next time I order cast lead bullets. Casters call this powder coated bullets, that melt in a furnace and anneal to the surface of the lead slug.
My curiosity meter is rising on this process.
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