My father in law was a gun guy and years ago, he left a bag of old cartridges when he passed away. I stored them away after a while and when I was revamping my loading facility, I opened the bag and gave the contents a closer look. There were several (10 or 12) 38 S&W rounds in the bag and since I have recently acquired a beautiful little Model 33 S&W in that caliber, I thought I would see just what these old rounds were loaded with. I knew that the 38 S&W was developed in the pre-smokeless yrs so I pulled a boolit and lo and behold, it had 10 grs of, what I believe is holy black. It fills the little case right up to the base of the .360 boolit which has a concave base. I am not going to shoot them in my gun but i am going to polish them a bit and put them in my display. Attachment 263123Attachment 263124 The boolit in the pic weighs 143 grs and no lube is present or it may be a dry lube that I cant feel. Of course it is probably 100 yrs old too.