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    A wadcutter is a special-purpose flat-fronted bullet specifically designed for shooting paper targets, usually at close range and at subsonic velocities...
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    more powerful powder charge with a 158-grain unjacketed soft lead semi-wadcutter hollow-point bullet designed to readily expand at typical .38 Special...
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    damage the hearing of people in the immediate area. Cartridges loaded with wadcutter target bullets can be mistaken for blanks because the bullet does not...
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    mass and is available in a variety of shapes and styles such as flat (wadcutter), round (domed), cone-shaped (pointed) and pitted (hollow point); and...
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    semiautomatic pistols chambered in .38 Special with flush-seated, full wadcutter bullets. The shape of the rimmed cartridge limited the magazine capacity...
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    Benelli Armi SpA of Italy. Available calibers are .22 LR and .32 S&W Long Wadcutter. Like all pistols designed for the 25 metre pistol and 25 metre rapid...
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    Easton, Pennsylvania; Bill had been killed with a .38 caliber handgun with wadcutter bullets. Melanie's receipt for the gun also listed an unspecified purchase...
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    shooting as the benchmark .38 Special wadcutter round—indeed, a good .357 Magnum revolver will shoot .38 Special wadcutter ammunition with good results. It...
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    SWC combines features of the traditional round-nosed bullets and the wadcutter bullets used in target shooting, and is used in both revolver and rifle...
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    installed by the operator to overcome this problem (.38 Special and .38 wadcutter). Replacing the spring requires the removal of the slide assembly, which...
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  • and 9.65 mm (.38), but the most popular cartridge is the .32 S&W Long Wadcutter, because it has good performance characteristics. Many countries also...
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    Morini, Hämmerli, Benelli, and Walther, among others, but chambered for wadcutter bullet type. The sporting variant of the Manurhin MR 73, also known as...
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    consists of a solid front portion called the head, which can have a flat ("wadcutter"), hemispherical ("round nose"), hollow point or conical ("pointed") front...
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    .38 special wadcutters. On the right is an unloaded 148 grain hollow-base wadcutter bullet....
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    a 15.0 g (232 grains) cupro-nickel-jacketed, lead-cored, flat-nosed, wadcutter-style bullet, called "balle M", which had been designed by Lieutenant...
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    above chart; all copper-jacketed lead FMJ, except 44 mg is lead semi-wadcutter gas-check, and 30-06 is LEAD core soft point. Bullet-resistant materials...
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    Webley Mk IV [11.55×19.3mmR]: Introduced in 1912. 220 grain, flat-nosed wadcutter with cordite propellant. Designed with the goal of producing a more effective...
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    Keith Semi-Wadcutter Hollow Point developed by Elmer Keith and Harold Croft (c. 1929–1931)...
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  • semi-automatic fire. Semi-wadcutter (SWC): A type of all-purpose bullet commonly used in revolvers that combines features of the wadcutter target bullet and traditional...
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    with the performance of its .38 Special +P 158 gr (10.2 g) lead semi-wadcutter hollowpoint (LSWCHP) cartridge ("FBI load") based on decades of dependable...
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    rifle disciplines match, diabolo pellets are used. These pellets have wadcutter heads, meaning the front is (nearly) flat, which leave clean round holes...
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    8-round magazine plus a separate recoil spring and one 7-round magazine for wadcutter ammunition. The "Colt Combat Elite" was specialized for combat-style match...
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  • It was chambered for .22 Short, .22 Long Rifle and .32 Smith & Wesson Wadcutter, with conversions (barrels, slides and magazines) for each caliber. It...
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    damage the barrel without a sabot). Examples include Russian "Tandem" wadcutter-type slug (the name is historical, as early versions consisted of two...
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    ever chambered for the .38 Special cartridge (with flush-seated, full wadcutter bullets only). The shape of the rimmed cartridge limited the magazine...
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  • used in several modern target pistols (not revolvers) with flush-seated wadcutters. The short version of this cartridge (.32 S&W) was chambered in many break-top...
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    not to reliably feed wadcutters because of their angular shape. To address this, the semi-wadcutter is often used. The semi-wadcutter consists of a conical...
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    Benelli Armi SpA of Italy. Available calibers are .22 LR and .32 S&W Long Wadcutter. The Finnish military shooting team uses the MP90S. Like all pistols designed...
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  • metal jacket bullet Hollow-point bullet Semiwadcutter Soft-point bullet Wadcutter Haag, Lucien C., "The Sound of Bullets", AFTE Journal #34, Summer 2002...
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    version that they call TFMJ, with a separate end cap of jacket material. Wadcutter (WC): Similar to the FNL, but completely cylindrical, in some instances...
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