A wadcutter is a bullet specially designed for shooting paper targets, usually at close range and with significantly subsonic velocities under 800 ft/s (244 m/s) such as are found in handgun and airgun competitions. A wadcutter has a flat or nearly flat front, which acts to cut a very clean hole through the target, making it easier to score and ideally reducing errors in scoring to the favor of the shooter. Since the flat nosed bullet is not well suited for feeding out of a firearm's magazine, wadcutters are normally used in revolvers or specially designed semi-automatic pistols. Target airguns generally shoot at even lower velocities, around 400 ft/s (122 m/s), so the use of wadcutters is nearly universal in airgun target shooting where paper targets are used. Flat-fronted airgun pellets are often referred to as "baldheaded Scotsmen" due to the shape and engraving on the lower half of a pellet resembling a kilt. Wadcutters are also sometimes known as the Devil'sSuppository. Image File history File links Merge-arrows. ... This article is about firearms projectiles. ... September 2007 is the ninth month of that year. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 712 × 600 pixels Full resolution (1026 × 864 pixel, file size: 158 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Wadcutter ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 712 × 600 pixels Full resolution (1026 × 864 pixel, file size: 158 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Wadcutter ... .303 in. ... Left to right: .38 Special, .17 HMR and . ... .357 Magnum rounds. ... “.357†redirects here. ... This article is about firearms projectiles. ... A Browning 9 millimeter Hi-Power Ordnance pistol of the French Navy, 19th century, using a Percussion cap mechanism Derringers were small and easily hidden. ... Air guns are weapons that propel a bullet using compressed air or another gas, possibly liquefied. ... rEVOLVEr (2004) is the fourth studio album release by Swedish thrash metal band The Haunted. ... A Semi-automatic (also known as Self-loading) pistol is a type of handheld firearm, a kind of pistol. ... Formal black tie Highland regalia, kilt and Prince Charlie jacket. ... This page is about the concept of the Devil. ... Four 500mg acetaminophen/paracetamol suppositories A suppository is a medicine that is inserted either into the rectum (rectal suppository) or into the vagina (vaginal suppository) where it melts. ...
In Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon, FBI agent will Graham teaches his wife to fire a gun on a shooting range using Wadcutters and a 'progressive range of ammo'. Since Wadcutters are used first, one can assume they were the lightest type.
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A wadcutter is a bullet specially designed for shooting paper targets, usually at close range and with significantly subsonic velocities under 800 ft/s (244 m/s) such as are found in handgun and airgun competitions.
A wadcutter has a flat or nearly flat front, which acts to cut a very clean hole through the target, making it easier to score and hopefully reducing errors in scoring to the favor of the shooter.
Since the flat nosed bullet is not well suited for feeding out of a firearm's magazine, wadcutters are normally used in revolvers or specially designed semi-automatic pistols.
The thinking is that the 148gr wadcutter is easy to shoot, penetrates to roughly the same depth as the 158gr LSWCHP +P, and exhibits similar recovered diameter [ie it is a full.35 upon recovery, most of the SWCHPs offer a lesser diameter across the leading edge].
One concern expressed regarding the lead wadcutter has been that the lead used is fairly soft and the edges of the bullet become deformed [ie lose their initial edge] rather easily.
The non +P wadcutter is not designed to expand, it does it's work with the sharp edge and is loaded to non +P velocity to allow for faster follow up shots and better control, thus more accurate bullet placement.
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