A wadcutter is a special-purpose bullet designed for shooting paper targets, usually at close range and subsonic velocity.
A wadcutter is simply a style or shape of a bullet that cuts a hole in a paper target cleanly so that the shot may be judged easily for score. A wadcutter bullet is basically just a barrel shaped bullet...conical. There is also a "semi-wadcutter" bullet that has a sharp shoulder beneath a tapered tip.
AVANTI does not make BB guns they make Competition Pellet rifles. I would recommend Crosman Competition .177 Cal, 7.4 Grains, Wadcutter or Beeman H&N High Speed Match .177 Cal, 7.56 Grains, Wadcutter. You will have to try several different wadcutter's to see the one that is best for your rifle
No such weapon ever made by S&W.
Basically, jacketed, semi-jacketed, lead, in the following types: round nose, wadcutter, semi-wadcutter, hollow point, flat base, boat tail. as well as high velocity and soft points, as well as copper tipped HV rounds.
Wadcutter is a description of the type of bullet, similar to 'full metal jacket', 'hollow point'... Wadcutters are usually lead cast without a copper jacket, they have a completely flat top. More often you will find 'semi-wadcutters', they are angled then come to a flat point that is about half the total diameter.
A full metal jacket (full metal case), a solid, or a hard cast wadcutter.
Probably Match quality semi-wadcutter (depending on exactly WHICH competition you mean) The ammo must cycle the weapon without failure, provided consistent speed, and an accurate bullet. Semi wadcutter feeds in most sem-auto sidearms, and clips a neat, clean hole in a paper target for easier scoring.
Only certain ammunition is called a wadcutter. This is a type of bullet that has a flat front, and is tended for target shooting. On impact with a paper target, it clips a neat, clean hole in the target like a paper punch. Back in the day when shotgun ammo used discs (called wads) of paper or felt, there was a tool used to cut these wads. A wadcutter. The bullet that clipped the neat hole was named after the tool that did the same thing.
Excellent condition $800-$1000 Very nice pistol that shoots a special .38 Special mid-range wadcutter bullet. Wadcutters are lead bullets that are flat nosed and even with mouth of the case.
WC means wadcutter. The bullet is shaped like a soup cap- flat ends- made to clip a clean hole in a paper target. These are USUALLY fired from revolvers- but there are a few auto pistols designed to shoot them.
Standard velocity 158 gr semi-wadcutter. The small light 38s do not do well with +P ammo, and a 2 inch barrel does not work well with most JHP rounds (too slow to expand)
There are about a dozen different "38s" other than the .38 Special. In the .38 Special caliber, there are round nosed lead, jacketed soft point, semi-wadcutter, wadcutter, jacketed hollow point, full metal jacketed, tracer, shot loads, metal piercing and multi-ball buckshot loads. Besides the .38 Special, there is .38 S&W, 38 Short Colt, .38 Enfield, .38 Long, .38 Remington, .38 Corto, .38 Super, .38 Auto, .38 AMU- and probably several others in my references. You can make a large cartridge collection just from the varieties of 38s.