Posted: 7/8/2005 8:14:47 AM EDT
| I just bought a 642 as a backup/summer carry gun. What are your recomendations for a carry load? |
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My preference for many years has been the WW (although everyone else also makes them) 158gr. Lead SWCHP+P. This load has accounted for lots and lots of bad guys with .38spl revolvers. Currently, CCI has introduced a 135gr. +P Gold Dot that is designed for snubbie use and is supposedly excellent, but I have never seen any. WW also makes the excellent Ranger Talons in .38spl+P...again, 135gr. or so IIRC, but my load has worked so well for me for so long...and I still have a couple thousand of them...that I continue to use the lead HP rounds. Yes, shooting +P or +P+ will, indeed, wear the alloy framed guns faster...but that is why S&W made so many...so I can get another when the three I have now wear out! 
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| Ikor those gold dot +p JHP are the rounds we're issued for our off duty 38s, and they are great but ya shoot too many of them and they knock the crap out of your hands, and thats shooting out of heavier 640. Not great for shooting at the range all day but great for carry. |