{"id":5465,"date":"2016-11-10T16:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T21:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/?p=5465"},"modified":"2021-07-27T08:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:21:48","slug":"wadcutter-ammo-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/wadcutter-ammo-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Wadcutter Ammo for Self-Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are dozens of modern .38 special and .357 magnum self-defense loads available that have been specifically designed with the snub nose revolver in mind. With all of those choices, it may be difficult to believe that a bullet as simple as the lead wadcutter may be the most effective round under some circumstances. The video below has the details, or you can just read the transcript&#8230;<\/p> <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gPXDwi7O0jg?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p> <hr \/> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right now, along with some of the other guys from the Lucky Gunner team, I am preparing for another round of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/labs\/self-defense-ammo-ballistic-tests\/\">self-defense ammo ballistic gelatin testing<\/a>. This time, we\u2019re going to be testing a few dozen .38 special and .357 magnum loads and we\u2019re planning to have those results ready for you guys to see early next year. While we\u2019re doing the actual testing over the next few weeks, we might not be able to put out as many videos and blog posts and we would like. So I apologize in advance if we\u2019re a little light on content, but we\u2019ve got some really interesting stuff in the works and it is definitely going to be worth the wait.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the meantime, today I want to give a little background on just one of the rounds that we\u2019re going to be testing and that is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/handgun\/38-special-ammo?jacket_type=479\">lead wadcutter<\/a>, also called a full wadcutter. A couple of years ago, I did a short <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/wadcutter-bullet\/\">video about what a wadcutter bullet is<\/a>, but I didn\u2019t offer much detail on using the wadcutter as a self-defense round.<\/span><\/p> <h3>What is a Wadcutter?<\/h3> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you didn\u2019t catch that earlier video, a wadcutter is a roughly cylinder-shaped bullet that is designed to be used in revolvers. Wadcutters are seated in the case so that the face of the bullet is flush with the case mouth. These were originally intended for bullseye type competition because the wadcutters leave a clean, round hole in a paper targets making them easier to score. They are also typically loaded to travel at relatively low velocities, so they have very little recoil compared to just about any other centerfire handgun load.<\/span><\/p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-target.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-target.jpg\" alt=\"wadcutter-target\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-target.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-target-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-target-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-target-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-target-350x197.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p> <h3>Why Might Wadcutters Work for Defense?<\/h3> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, why anyone would want to use a non-expanding, slow-moving bullet for self-defense? Well, the low recoil is usually what attracts people to that option. A small alloy-framed snub nose might be painful for somebody to shoot with conventional self-defense ammo, but with wadcutters, they can become very manageable. Even more experienced shooters using a steel frame revolver will typically find that they can get accurate follow-up shots much quicker with wadcutters than with most other loads.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wadcutters also have the potential for surprisingly effective wound ballistics out of a small revolver compared to conventional self-defense ammo. Most hollow-points will only expand if they get up to a certain velocity, and sometimes the little 2-inch snubby barrels don\u2019t launch those bullets fast enough to reach that velocity. When a hollow point fails to expand in soft tissue, it basically acts like a round nose or full metal jacket. It makes a hole, but it kind of pushes its way through tissue like the hull of a boat moving through the water. It doesn\u2019t create a large wound channel and it just isn\u2019t as effective at stopping threats when it doesn\u2019t expand.<\/span><\/p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-bullets.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-bullets.jpg\" alt=\"wadcutter-bullets\" width=\"1000\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-bullets.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-bullets-600x340.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-bullets-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-bullets-350x198.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A wadcutter, on the other hand, because of the flat front and hard right angle, it does to soft tissue kind of what it does to paper &#8212; it punches a sharp hole that\u2019s a lot more disruptive than a round nose. Even though the wadcutter doesn\u2019t actually expand, it tends to penetrate soft tissue very reliably. Penetration is really the most important thing we want to see in a good self-defense round, so when you combine that with light recoil, a .38 special wadcutter is actually a pretty formidable self-defense round.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The catch is that most snub nose revolvers have fixed sights and sometimes wadcutters are going to hit a few inches higher or lower than what the sights are regulated for. Also, thanks to their shape, it\u2019s difficult to reload with wadcutters in any kind of hurry. A lot of guys that load their carry gun with wadcutters will use something different for their reload, like a speed strip with Gold Dots, for example.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most major ammo manufacturers produce some kind of 148 grain .38 special wadcutter load but they can have pretty drastically different velocities from one brand to the next. I did some chronograph testing with wadcutters from six different ammo makers and took the average velocity of 10 shots fired from a 2-inch barreled revolver.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Winchester load was the fastest at a little over 700 feet per second. The Federal, Remington, and Magtech loads were within 50 feet per second of that and then there\u2019s a big jump down to the Sellier and Bellot load at close to 600 and then another massive decrease to 530 for the Fiocchi load. So there\u2019s nearly a 180 foot per second spread between these six loads &#8212; that\u2019s a 25% decrease in velocity from the fastest load to the slowest.<\/span><\/p><p><\/p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-velocity.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-velocity.jpg\" alt=\"wadcutter-velocity\" width=\"1820\" height=\"922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-velocity.jpg 1820w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-velocity-600x304.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-velocity-1024x519.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-velocity-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-velocity-1536x778.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/wadcutter-velocity-350x177.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1820px) 100vw, 1820px\" \/><\/a><\/p> <h3>What Wadcutters Are Good Options?<\/h3> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of these loads still have very mild recoil, but if I was choosing one for self-defense, I would want one of the faster loads out of this batch just to make sure I get that penetration we\u2019re looking for. The Winchester, Federal, or Remington would all be good choices. The Magtech velocity is also decent, but Magtech ammo tends to have tough primers which can lead to light primer strikes in some revolvers. You can find much higher velocity wadcutter loads from some of the smaller boutique ammo companies, but you start running into diminishing returns with those. When you get up to numbers like\u00a0850 feet per second with a wadcutter, there\u2019s no real increase in performance over the more standard loads but you do end up with snappier recoil, so it\u2019s not really worth the trade-off.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re going to be using the Winchester wadcutter in our gelatin tests, so we\u2019ll see how that compares to the jacketed hollow-point loads. But even if some of those hollow points expand out of a 2-inch barrel, none of them are going to be as easy to shoot as the wadcutter, so for recoil sensitive shooters and super lightweight revolvers, do not overlook the humble lead wadcutter load.<\/span><\/p> <hr \/> <p>If you want more of that sweet revolver goodness, be sure to check out the archives of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/category\/wheel-gun-wednesday\/\">Wheel Gun Wednesday series<\/a>!<\/p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are dozens of modern .38 special and .357 magnum self-defense loads available that have been specifically designed with the &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/wadcutter-ammo-self-defense\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24,47,42,17,131,305],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toolbox","tag-ammo","tag-concealed-carry","tag-revolvers","tag-self-defense","tag-snub-nose","tag-wadcutter"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wadcutter Ammo for Self-Defense - Lucky Gunner Lounge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Is wadcutter ammo a good option for self-defense? 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