38 Super for dummies

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There is also the 38/45 Clerke(pronounced "Clark"), and it can produce 38 Super/SC ballistics while operating slightly above 45ACP(IIRC) pressures, but 38/45 Clerke is for all intents and purposes a handloader game.
 
Never been one to try making a given caliber more than it was meant to be, I'm real happy shooting a 124 grainer at 1350fps in the super. For self defense I still cling to the .45ACP. If I need more power I'll switch to a 10mm or big bore revolver. Love the Super for what it is, becoming one of my favorites.
 
I'm thinking I like the idea of the super more and more. Is it just me, or wouldn't that be a sweet cartridge in a carbine?
Hell yes. I’m thinking it’d be a sweet cartridge in a SA XDs.
 
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I am surprised that 9x23mm Winchester is not more popular.
I am too. There are practically no guns made for it either. I'd have thought one of the semi-custom 1911 makers would embrace the round and own the niche.
 
This is NOT one of the guns I load to approx. 1500 FPS. More like 950 FPS;)
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That's the 1903 pocket hammer right? From what I understand, all of the posters for the movie Casablanca shows Bogart with a 1911, but he was such a small guy in reality, they gave him a Colt Pocket Hammer as it was more his scale casasuit-gun1.jpg casablanca-poster-for-1942-warner-film-classic-wit-ingrid-bergman-B3MN5M.jpg
 
Regarding major power factors:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170713090149/http://38super.net/Pages/Major.html

You can safely get a 124 gr. bullet at 1400 fps from a 5" barrel from the 38 Super. This is the lower level of the 357 Magnum from a 4" barrel (which usually isn't 1400 fps but somewhere above 1300 fps).

Try here as well...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170812093552/http://www.k8nd.com/ipscload.htm

Commercial ammo from Buffalo Bore, Double Tap, etc. does about 1350 fps from a 5" barrel.

The Super will also handle heavier bullets quite well.
 
You can safely get a 124 gr. bullet at 1400 fps from a 5" barrel from the 38 Super. This is the lower level of the 357 Magnum from a 4" barrel (which usually isn't 1400 fps but somewhere above 1300 fps).

I'm a bit confused. Are you saying the 357 magnum won't make 1400 from a 4" barrel with a 125 grain bullet?
 
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My understanding is that Hollywood used often 38 ACP automatics instead of 45's because it was easier to get the 38's to work reliably with blanks. The bore on the 45's was too big, or something. In the low-budget 1959 horror movie "The House on Haunted Hill", the character played by Vincent Price hands about about half a dozen Colt 38 automatics (1903 Pocket Hammer models, IIRC) to his guests. It's startling if you know they weren't all that common, and were 30+ years old.
 
bersaguy, brings up a good point, I like taking my Marlin 44 mag up to the farm along with my 629, it's just really fun having a carbine/handgun combo. A .357 Marlin is on my bucket list but wouldn't it be cool to have something like an M1 carbine in 10MM or .38 Super to shoot with your autoloader.:cool:
 
That's the 1903 pocket hammer right? From what I understand, all of the posters for the movie Casablanca shows Bogart with a 1911, but he was such a small guy in reality, they gave him a Colt Pocket Hammer as it was more his scale
I've read that somewhere too, and that it was his idea. He was apparently worried that his hands would look too small. Vanity, thy name is Bogart. Well, he succeeded, but what he didn't realize that the 1903 also resulted in his butt looking too big.
 
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