I inherited a .38 super 1911 from my dad. I had never heard of that round before. It is actually a very comfortable round for range time.
I do not carry that pistol, due to its high sentimental value.
Gunaria just picked up a Spanish Destroyer carbine converted to 38 super....He loves them...Very popular south of the border due to .38 super not being a military round (at the time) civilians in Mexico could own .38 super....It's also why Ruger made a Mini 14 in .222 and it's so rare...Made for the Mexican market...You could not have a .223/5.56 but a .222 was no problem....There is even a film with Tab Hunter called "Super Colt .38"...
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That should have been a pretty easy conversion. I wonder what (other than a little adjustment of the chamber) had to be done, since the .38 super and the 9mm Largo are so close in size?
I inherited a .38 super 1911 from my dad. I had never heard of that round before. It is actually a very comfortable round for range time.
I do not carry that pistol, due to its high sentimental value.
Gunaria just picked up a Spanish Destroyer carbine converted to 38 super....He loves them...Very popular south of the border due to .38 super not being a military round (at the time) civilians in Mexico could own .38 super....It's also why Ruger made a Mini 14 in .222 and it's so rare...Made for the Mexican market...You could not have a .223/5.56 but a .222 was no problem....There is even a film with Tab Hunter called "Super Colt .38"...
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I've used to work with a guy that had one. Factory ammo is/was a little weak, similar to the 10mm. If you reload or buy some hotter boutique ammo, you can get into more power if needed/wanted.
Nice looking pistol too!
As best as we could see it seems like just a beefed up extractor...It was pro done for sure...The old caliber x'd out and .38 Super stamped on top of the breech...It's a good looking piece...he may come in and chime in...
10mm ammo, in its initial years, was loaded hotter than it is now. Factory ammo twnety years ago was in a similiar power range as Buffalo Bore. The round was probably too hot for some people to shoot it well. I even heard that the original loading was really hard on the first guns chambered in 10mm as wellThanks,
What do you mean by the ammo being "weak". Ive never shot a 10mm so not sure what you mean.
Nice custom 1911.
Colt frame and Caspian slide. If the barrel is a ramped barrel you can load up and shoot some seriously hot rounds. If it was built with a non-ramped barrel I would say most any factory round and mid range reloads will be fine.
I have over 150K thru 38 super guns. Most in 1911/2011 platform and the revolver I shoot now is even 38 super. All of this was in competition or practice.
Shot LOTS of 124 grain at 1450 FPS out of ramped barrel compensated autos.
Lots of options for mags Wilson, Chip McCormick, Metalform, all work ok and hold 10 rounds.
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What do you mean by the ammo being "weak". Ive never shot a 10mm so not sure what you mean.
Yes mags are specific although some might say 9/38.
Some of the newer 9 mm mags have a spacer in the back of mag to make up for shorter length of 9mm.
Lock slide back and look at chamber thru ejection port a ramped barrel will have the ramp(where the bullet nose rubs going from the magazine to the gun) attached to the barrel. This will hang down quite a bit. A non ramped barrel will have nothing hanging down and the frame of the gun and the bottom edge of the barrel will make a 2 piece feed ramp.
Here is a picture:
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