Bigslug
09-21-2012, 04:00 PM
Just curious about this - the .38 Special had already taken a big chunk out of the .38 S&W's market long before Elmer Keith started playing around with large, meat-crushing meplats. While I haven't searched the world over, I don't think I've ever seen anything other than a roundnose for the .38 S&W.
Seems to me that with legal CCW on the rise in the U.S., there would be a market for modern versions of the compact, lightweight, short cylinder revolvers the round was originally know for - to say nothing of the fact that a 180-200 grain Keith at a sedate 600-700 fps would be a far better chill-pill than anything coming out of a .32 or .380 auto. (Besides, when I get tired of being all "traditional" with my roundnose Webley bullets, I'll want to load something with a little more THUD :mrgreen:)
Just thought I'd ask if anyone knew of efforts to update the old popper to a more effective projectile - specifically, of SWC molds (old or current) that dropped at about .363 for sizing to what these guns want.
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Seems to me that with legal CCW on the rise in the U.S., there would be a market for modern versions of the compact, lightweight, short cylinder revolvers the round was originally know for - to say nothing of the fact that a 180-200 grain Keith at a sedate 600-700 fps would be a far better chill-pill than anything coming out of a .32 or .380 auto. (Besides, when I get tired of being all "traditional" with my roundnose Webley bullets, I'll want to load something with a little more THUD :mrgreen:)
Just thought I'd ask if anyone knew of efforts to update the old popper to a more effective projectile - specifically, of SWC molds (old or current) that dropped at about .363 for sizing to what these guns want.
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