I started shooting the .38 Super back in 1980. Used to shoot a lot of cast bullets back then especially the 160 grain cast round nose. At 1170 fps it easily made Major and gave me two extra rounds over the .45/1911s as back then there were only 7 round magazines for the .45 vs. 9 for the Super.
One bullet I always loved was the SAECO 383. It casts up in the 135-140 grain range. There was a commercial caster in Dallas where I lived who was the Secretary of the Cast Bullet Association. He made me a 1000 out of linotype metal and they were very accurate. Just got back into casting last year after not casting from about 1981. Found one of the SAECO 383 two-cavity moulds on ebay so I thought I would give it a try.
The bullet has to be seated right to the top of the bearing surface or it will not make the max LOA. These are sized .355 and I did another batch at .357 for some .38 Super revolvers I have. Thought with the nice wide meplat it would work well on small game. One would also think that with the big flat point the bullets wouldn't feed smoothly but these slide right into the chamber like butter...
These are powered by 6.0 grain of Unique which should give in the 1200 fps range...
Anyone else use this bullet in 9mm or Super?
Bob