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Originally posted by jyl
Oh, please tell me a little more. In an autoloader, can I use light wadcutter or semi-wadcutter loads for the range, and more powerful hollowpoint loads for defense? Or is it too hard to get, say, a 1911 to reliably feed both?
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There are plenty of full custom 1911s that are bullseye accurate and 100% reliable. You can shoot 200gr semi wadcutter .45 in a standard 1911 with a standard 16lb recoil spring but you are going to have to reload or buy reloaded ammo. Buying factory wadcutter ammunition for practice is going to be as expensive as practicing with you self defense loads.
Bullseye guns and self defense guns are built for two totally different purposes. Do you want the accuracy? Or just the neat little holes in the paper?
There are .38 wadcutter Colt1911s out there. They are pure bullseye guns but they are out there. I wouldnt take one and try to use it as a dual purpose self defense gun. The recoil spring is literally about half the power of a standard recoil spring, the barrels would are different, and the sites are usually set up different.
Anything is possible and there is nothing terribly complicated about a 1911. You might make it run 99%, but by the time you paid someone to sort it out, you may as well have bought a 2nd gun. You could also have a .38 super/.38 wadcutter switchtop gun built with two upper assemblies, but again, you might as well have two separate guns. I wouldnt try to do a .38 wadcutter/.45ACP switchtop.
You can shoot .38 wadcutter from a .38 revolver. This is a perfect step up from .22 for teaching a new shooter.
If I ever bought a dedicated .38 wadcutter gun it would be an old 52-2. If I just wanted a stupid accurate gun I would buy a Sig P210