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.
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