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I'm curious what the fascination is with wadcutters in the .32 H&R is. I've been loading for the .32 for 20+ years and have mostly used lead flat-nose bullets. What is magic about the wadcutters?
Here's my results using the 3.0gr of HP38 over the 98gr MBC wadcutter. 7/10/25yds with decent results. Only the second outing with the 432UC and it seems to be breaking in nicely. I shot all 100rnds I had loaded of the MBC loads and a a mix of the Hornady 85gr XTP's that I loaded. Not a super fan of the wadcutter as it's not as easy to load the chambers as a SWC. I may try to run this in one of our local ASI matches and need to be able to charge with speedloaders. Sights seem pretty regulated, even with my horrible vision did pretty well. I'm happy when I can hit the center at 25yds off hand.
IMG_4636 by MStarmer, on Flickr
IMG_4637 by MStarmer, on Flickr
There's no magic. The flat nose is the part of the bullet that does the damage, and it's bigger on a wadcutter than on a flat nose or SWC. Having less air space in the cartridge gives a theoretical advantage for accuracy like it does with wadcutters in .38 Special, though I'm not sure how much difference that makes in a snubby.
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Thanks for the response. My posts weren't approved until after a few days so they popped in after other posts had been made.
So far I'm happy with the 3.0 HP-38 with the Wadcutter, don't know if I'll load any more though. I'd prefer to load the SWC's if I can get a good load.
I have (50) ea of the MBC #6 Hi-Tek coated 100gr loaded at 3.0 and 3.3 HP 38, hope to see how those do and get about 500 or so of those loaded if they hit to the sights and group decent.
Got a few rounds pressed out today.
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