Was having a discussion a few months ago about wadcutters out of a J frame with @
03RN and we were talking about whether they might penetrate too deeply.
I didn’t have any wadcutters to test until recently.
Plus I wanted to remind myself why a light J frame isn’t fun to shoot hot ammo in (trying to talk myself out of 9mm conversion).
So here is the gel test with Underwood wadcutters and semi-wadcutters.
I use 20% gel these days because there is less to transport and all data is extrapolation anyway.
So keep in mind that 16” in 20% gel is roughly equivalent to 32” in “normal” ballistic gel give or take.
I liked the semi. The full wadcutter seemed to go a little far for my liking but it definitely did what it was designed to do.