Quote Originally Posted by Ron3 View Post
Makes sense to me. I haven't had any trouble with it from my 2.0 M&P.

I agree there are pro's and con's to an under 1100 fps lead vs jacketed pistol bullet. (Terminally and otherwise)
low speed makes for no leading in the bore.

Big & heavy at relatively low speed, hits hard. A lot of people were killed in the civil war by the very same type of bullet.
Also those tended to cause a lot of amputations owing to the damage they did.

Also reliability, no headaches with tweaking the gun to work with a hollowpoint. Cast lead semi-flat nose is very close in overall profile to std jacketed ball. Reliability comes first.

I'd actually considered getting a winchester trapper & .357 mag revolver for the same reason. Cast my own and have something chambered in the same round, less logistics in a worst-case scenario.

158 gr bullet in those you can download to just above the old 158 gr treasury dept load in .38.

After a while it made no sense, if cast lead bullets are relatively low cost.......stock up. Why make the assumption I'll be caught without if I stock up to begin with.

so I've stuck with those and they work for whatever my needs might be.