I was there as well. You were probably in the session with Mark Fricke, Wayne Dobbs and Chuck Haggard.
Chuck's "Pocket Rocket's" class does a lot of research on projectiles fired out of 2" aluminum or Scandium frame 2" revolvers.
I own a
lot of lightweight J-frames, and run Federal Gold Medal Match 148-grain wadcutters in them The speedstrip for the reload is the aforementioned Speer Gold Dots.
The trick is,
find a round that shoots to your sights, and is controllable for follow-on shots. If you have to pull out an iPhone and do a much of math for holdovers, etc, that is not much use.
Wadcutters out of a 2" barrel tend to get 14'-16" of penetration, even through denim.
Mark was working on a big research paper of snub ammo testing this spring. We talked the other night, and that is now going to become a book.
Very few rounds are ever going to reliably expand out of a 2" revolver. Getting something that hits where you aim it is honestly more critical.
But hey, everybody carry what you like. I'm not going to be an attendee at your gunfight. I'm just a dude that's carried a J-frame in his left front pocket for the last 30 years, who practices drawing and stuff a round into someone's eyeball at 5 feet.
CAVDOC - are you going back this November? There are some more cool things in store.
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