MCgunner
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If you cast your own bullets and reload. The .380 is extremely inexpensive to shoot. Casting my own 100 grain bullets, I can easily reload .380 for under $3 per box! At that price, it would almost replace my .22.
I cast a 105 .358" SWC and size it to .357 and load it over 2.7 grains of B'eye in .38 brass for 900 fps and 1.5" at 50 yards accuracy. It'll do anything a .22 can do. The same bullet also works very well in .380 and light 9x19 loads for me. I don't shoot or carry my .380 much anymore, though. I don't have much brass and haven't loaded it in at least a decade. I have a Dillon Square Deol set up for 9x19 and if I WANTED a PCC in an auto pistol caliber, 9 is the way I'd go.
BUT, for those heavily invested in .380, I could see the desire. Just don't think there's much market, there, but like I said, I don't think it' probably cost them much to run off a few in .380, not like they had to buy all new machinery or anything, just adjust what they've got for the production run.
I asked my distributor just now why, He said it is for foreign markets where people cant own military calibers. Mexico will be a top market.
That sounds like the real answer, makes total sense.