Over the years I've fired a few .38 specials and many many many .357 magnum rounds out of K, L, and N frame S&Ws in just about every conceivable configuration but for some unknown reason I've never fired a .38 full wadcutter target load until today. I took my grandfather's 4" Model 15 out today and had a baggie full of ancient target loads of unknown origin along with some JHP rounds in Norma brass. I had not shot this gun at all until today. I loaded up the cylinder and proceeded to shoot slow DA off the bench at 10 yards and put the first 4 rounds in the same hole and the other two just out of that group.
I shot a bill drill on the next cylinder and I thought "so that's what the 4" K frame magic feels like!"
I had alway preferred L frames until today. Target wadcutters and 4" K frames have some sort of juju going on that I had never felt before. They just work together. Tomorrow I'll order up a bunch of coated full wadcutters to work up loads for. My new J frame just found it's practice load.
The Norma JHP loads were kind of like the opposite extreme. They weren't playing around, they were serious "get down to business" loads with a quite impressive fire ball. Kinda glad those are gone.