A bullet designed to cut a neat hole in a paper range target.
〈主美〉冲孔型弹丸
Example sentencesExamples
The ammo was Crosman Copperhead 4.5mm wadcutters.
Most autoloader cartridges have a rounded bullet to lead them into the chamber, but the blunt end of the wadcutter places great demand on the alignment of the cartridge within the magazine.
While almost everyone thinks of the wadcutter as making nice, clean, easy-to-score, holes in targets, there's more.
The lumbering wadcutter bullet seemed to take forever to get out of the barrel and you really had to hold hard to get good scores.
You can still buy factory loaded .38 Special wadcutters from the major makers, but it's a tiny trickle compared to ten years ago.
Definition of wadcutter in US English:
wadcutter
nounˈwädˌkədər
US
A bullet designed to cut a neat hole in a paper range target.
〈主美〉冲孔型弹丸
Example sentencesExamples
The ammo was Crosman Copperhead 4.5mm wadcutters.
You can still buy factory loaded .38 Special wadcutters from the major makers, but it's a tiny trickle compared to ten years ago.
While almost everyone thinks of the wadcutter as making nice, clean, easy-to-score, holes in targets, there's more.
Most autoloader cartridges have a rounded bullet to lead them into the chamber, but the blunt end of the wadcutter places great demand on the alignment of the cartridge within the magazine.
The lumbering wadcutter bullet seemed to take forever to get out of the barrel and you really had to hold hard to get good scores.