With all the past few years sales programs shoving the little .380 autos down our throats and before that all the sales promotions of the "Wonder Nines" it would appear that the .38 Special is a forgotten thing but NOYT SO!
Qiuetlly, S&W Tarus and other manufacturers have been building both time proven guns and some innivative new platforms for the .38 SPECIAL securing it as one of Americas Premium Fighting Cartriges!
New light bullet, soft nose clothes penetrating ammo has been developed by a few manufacturers like the fine Horniday rounds! Though the actual ft/lbs of the .38 haven't changed much the bullets have and so have some of the new revolvers dexigned around the .38!
Just a couple years back, I got "MY" .38 carrygun, a No-Dash Model 36 in Nickle finish. A former owner bobbed the hammer so it's a D/A only proposition but aren't they supposed to be shot D/A? and when I saw it in the cabinet at the Gun Shop it just screamed at me Take Me Home! And I did. Boy that was the longest 10 days of my life waiting to hold it and shoot it! I'd fallen in love with the breed decades ago but somehow always pissed the money away on other things and never bought one. Well now i am too old and way too crippled to fistfight and I thought it was time to get soe "real" protetion for the wife and I and I could not settle on anything but a 2" Chief as being the most perfect thing!
It carries like it wasn't even there, holds 5 of those great Horniday's and goes bang EVERY time! A speedstrip of reloads to go with it and you are almost as safe as when you were a child in Dad's arms!
I don't know why the .38 Special dosen't get more press? Maybe it and the guns that chamber it don't have enoughroom fpr f;ash;oghts, aimpoints and laser sights? But the Cartrige and the guns that shoot it were never meant to be acessorised like that, they were meant to be fighting guns, guns built for one special purpose and they do it well!
No the .38 won't stop a running engine but it will put an end to a bad guys day and it won't put em down at 100 yards but the real danger is usually under 10 ft, and in spite of weather, climate or conditions, as many law eenforcement officers have noted, it goes bang every time it's needed!
I guess it's OK that the plain Jane .38 sits in the shadows of other sometimes lesser calibers I know where mine sits and that's right at my side, ready if it's needed.
BPDave
Qiuetlly, S&W Tarus and other manufacturers have been building both time proven guns and some innivative new platforms for the .38 SPECIAL securing it as one of Americas Premium Fighting Cartriges!
New light bullet, soft nose clothes penetrating ammo has been developed by a few manufacturers like the fine Horniday rounds! Though the actual ft/lbs of the .38 haven't changed much the bullets have and so have some of the new revolvers dexigned around the .38!
Just a couple years back, I got "MY" .38 carrygun, a No-Dash Model 36 in Nickle finish. A former owner bobbed the hammer so it's a D/A only proposition but aren't they supposed to be shot D/A? and when I saw it in the cabinet at the Gun Shop it just screamed at me Take Me Home! And I did. Boy that was the longest 10 days of my life waiting to hold it and shoot it! I'd fallen in love with the breed decades ago but somehow always pissed the money away on other things and never bought one. Well now i am too old and way too crippled to fistfight and I thought it was time to get soe "real" protetion for the wife and I and I could not settle on anything but a 2" Chief as being the most perfect thing!
It carries like it wasn't even there, holds 5 of those great Horniday's and goes bang EVERY time! A speedstrip of reloads to go with it and you are almost as safe as when you were a child in Dad's arms!
I don't know why the .38 Special dosen't get more press? Maybe it and the guns that chamber it don't have enoughroom fpr f;ash;oghts, aimpoints and laser sights? But the Cartrige and the guns that shoot it were never meant to be acessorised like that, they were meant to be fighting guns, guns built for one special purpose and they do it well!
No the .38 won't stop a running engine but it will put an end to a bad guys day and it won't put em down at 100 yards but the real danger is usually under 10 ft, and in spite of weather, climate or conditions, as many law eenforcement officers have noted, it goes bang every time it's needed!
I guess it's OK that the plain Jane .38 sits in the shadows of other sometimes lesser calibers I know where mine sits and that's right at my side, ready if it's needed.
BPDave
