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If you are using commercial loads, you will find wadcutters are loaded down to much lighter charges than standard ammunition. If you load them yourselves and follow the standard method of flush seating with the case mouth, you won't have much case capacity left for powder, so you will still have to load them down to stay at safe pressures. If you seat them out to regular COL, you will get back some powder space, but may find them hard to chamber in some revolvers. If they are hard to chamber you risk pushing the bullet back into the case and seriously raising pressure. It is more difficult to line up a speed loader well enough to work quickly with those blunt bullets in it. Something pointier goes in smoother, especially under pressure.

If you can get around all the above (seating so the bullet stands out far enough without creating chamber interference, in particular) you will find that like any flat nose bullet a wadcutter is an effective hunting bullet. The flat tip causes lateral translation of momentum and creates a temporary cavity much like a smaller caliber hollow point would, but it also creates greater permanent wound channel damage. If you search around the web you will find some images of damage done on game by them. That damage assumes being driven at adequate velocity, however, and not at match load velocities.