Since I purchased my K6S I went through my stash and found a box of Black Hills Red Box 38 Special +P JHPs.  They appear to be loaded with either XTPs or maybe an older Gold Dot bullet.  Anyone have any idea about these?  I used to use a lot of Black Hills .223 match loads when I was shooting service rifle competition many years ago and had excellent results with them, so I'm guessing these 38 loads will be pretty good, even with the older projectile.

Thoughts?

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That doesn't resemble any of the .357" XTP's I have, of course Hornady could of modified the design at some point without telling me .

those are SPEER GOLD DOT bullets

Thanks for the feedback.

I asked because they are different from the current Gold Dots that I have in .357.

The 357 Gold Dots have a much shallower “hollow point” than the ones for 38 Special.  I’m assuming that’s a 125gr bullet?  Should be a decent load in that 3”.

The bullet looks like a Speer Gold Dot...

Yeah, 125gr.