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  • noun firearms a special-purpose bullet designed for shooting paper targets, usually at close range and at subsonic velocities.

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Examples

  • I intended to rebarrel it as well, but before that was accomplished, I ran a few cylinders of .38 wadcutter ammo down the tube to check the trigger and action job.

    Bad Shells 2008

  • Ain't nothing better than that moment when I pull his butt hard against my shoulder, rub my finger on his trigger, slowly coaxing it back until that triumphant moment of release when the 660 grains of wadcutter ecstasy explodes out of his chamber, shoots down that 29 inches of hot hard steel and erupts out of his muzzle in a glorious eruption of masculine power.

    Archive 2009-05-03 2009

  • You could buy just three flavors of handgun ammo; lead roundnose, wadcutter, and hardball.

    Who Was The Greatest Gun Writer Of All Time? 2007

  • With practice, some semi-wadcutter rounds, or any of the newer high velocity defensive rounds, they will get the jobdone.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Women’s (or Men’s) Concealed Carry Handgun Recommendations: 2009

  • You could buy just three flavors of handgun ammo; lead roundnose, wadcutter, and hardball.

    Who Was The Greatest Gun Writer Of All Time? 2007

  • I gently tease the trigger, allowing anticipation to grow exponentially as the seconds roll by until, finally, the trigger finds release on its own, detonating the primer, igniting the powder, and driving that 350 gr wadcutter hard, down 14 inches of hot, rigid steel, and ultimately exploding out of the muzzle with God-like power.

    Smashing Left-Wing Scum with 14 inches of cold, rigid steel 2006

  • The first was specifically tailored to the Model 58 and featured a 210-grain lead semi-wadcutter at around

    unknown title 2009

  • The choice for Keith was simple: a big-bore lead semi-wadcutter at around 1,000 fps.

    unknown title 2009

  • Ain't nothing better than that moment when I pull his butt hard against my shoulder, rub my finger on his trigger, slowly coaxing it back until that triumphant moment of release when the 660 grains of wadcutter ecstasy explodes out of his chamber, shoots down that 29 inches of hot hard steel and erupts out of his muzzle in a glorious eruption of masculine power.

    Jesus' General 2009

  • Ain't nothing better than that moment when I pull his butt hard against my shoulder, rub my finger on his trigger, slowly coaxing it back until that triumphant moment of release when the 660 grains of wadcutter ecstasy explodes out of his chamber, shoots down that 29 inches of hot hard steel and erupts out of his muzzle in a glorious eruption of masculine power.

    Jesus' General 2009

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  • Though fans of mass transit may mutter

    Of trains that melt distance like butter,

    Amtrak can't compare

    With bullets elsewhere.

    Our train is at best a wadcutter.

    April 6, 2016