Underwood 38 Special Ammo 158 Grain Semi-Wadcutter Box of 20

This round was developed with a projectile that is soft enough to expand upon impact, but hard enough not to create lead fouling in the barrel of a normal revolver.

Underwood Ammo’s soft cast featuring a new “Black Cherry” coating. Equipped with new enhancements from our previous Hi-Tek coating. Our “Black Cherry” coating is a  polymer-based compound; its thermal stability allows it to handle more than any other coating today. The coating will protect against gas cutting with a high degree of wear and abrasion resistance. The “Black Cherry” coating prevents lead to bore contact, thus virtually eliminating lead fouling.

Coatings special features:

• No plastic burning smell
• Thermally stable
• Resistant to weathering and chemical degradation
• Strong mechanical and tensile strength properties
• Self-lubricating
• Able to withstand high pressure conditions
• Able to withstand high heat conditions
• High degree of wear and abrasion resistance
• Reduced friction resistance
• Good flame retarding properties
• Coating prevents lead to bore contact thus virtually eliminating lead fouling
• Shoot higher velocities without lead fouling

All non-jacketed lead bullets, whether it may be cast, hard cast, wad-cutter, etc. “”smoke”” to some degree due to the wax/lube needed in the manufacturing process. With the high performance and velocity we achieve it is nearly impossible to stop this from happening. Higher chamber pressures, higher velocities, and higher temperatures mean more smoke in this case. The only way to create less smoke would be to sacrifice performance, which has never been our goal.

Nickel-plated brass casings, their nickel plating process provides several key benefits, not limited to but including; improved feeding in all actions of firearms enhanced corrosion resistance over traditional brass, improved cosmetics, and ease of cleanup during reloading. Nickel-plated casings will not tarnish like brass during storage or when in contact with foreign materials such as leather, moisture, and other metals.

As with all of Underwood Ammo rounds, they utilize flash suppressed powder so that your vision will not be compromised if it becomes necessary to use your firearm in low light.

While taking advantage of their state of the art testing equipment, this high-performance ammunition is field tested using popular, real firearms that their customers are most likely to own out in the real world with all the elements you would experience.

This ammunition is new production, non-corrosive, in boxer primed, reloadable brass cases.

Features

• This ammo is for cartridge size .38 Special.
• The bullet is made from Lead.
• The diameter (caliber) of this bullet is 0.357.
• This bullet weighs 158 grains.
• This bullet leaves the barrel at 980 feet per second.
• The ammo case is made from Nickel Plated Brass.
• This ammo is a proven round for hunting.
• The bullet in this product does contain lead.
• This round is designed to be subsonic and travels slower than the speed of sound.
• The muzzle energy of this ammo is 337 ft lbs.
• This product has been designed to be an effective choice for the ultimate in self-defense applications.
• The bullet in this product has a Sectional Density, (SD) of 0.177101652986124. SD is the ratio of an object’s mass to its cross sectional area with respect to a given axis. It conveys how well an object’s mass is distributed (by its shape) to overcome resistance along that axis.
• This ammo IS SAFE to use in a suppressor.
• The bullet in this ammo has a ballistic coefficient (G1) of – Generally, the higher the coefficient, the more stable the projectile will be in flight.
• Each box of ammo contains 20 loaded pieces of ammunition.
• This ammo is manufactured by Underwood Ammo