Mikey has a good idea.
The British stopped using their famously effective .455 Webley revolver round after WWI because, it was said, it kicked too much for soft-handed yeomen. They replaced it with a Webley 200-grain roundnose .38 caliber round, the .38/200, which was basically a heavyweight bullet in the low-velocity .38 S&W cartridge but was said to be as effective in knockdown power as the old .455. The velocity of this round was only about 600 fps out of the old Webley revolver, but later it was feared the soft lead bullet wouldn't meet some war convention stipulation against dum-dum expanding bullets, so they started issuing a lighter full-metal-jacket bullet.
For years in this country, the .38 Special / 200-grain lead bullet was considered an effective police load, until guns were expected to shoot through car bodies instead of just criminal bodies. A number of years ago, one writer, I believe in a Gun Digest, postulated that the long and heavy-for-caliber 200 grain bullet in a slow .38 was so effective because at the low velocities it was being pushed, it tended to become unstable upon striking the target, and thus tumbled, creating a larger wound channel.
The .38 200-grain bullet performance matching the old British and police loads is easy to achieve in short-barrel revolvers. I like to use the 200-grain bullet in a .38 Special case in a .357 SP 101 2.25-inch snubnose. The kick is very mild, llike a .38 special, with very low pressures, and if it's as effective as the old .455 Webley, then it packs quite a punch in such a small, efficient, easy-to-shoot package.
