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The .38 Super pistol cartridge is the child of the famous firearms company Colt. It is a 9 mm cartridge, that uses the same .355 inch bullets as used in the 9 mm Luger. For the coin, see pistole For the part of a flower, see pistil. ...
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A firearm is a kinetic energy weapon that fires either a single or multiple projectiles propelled at high velocity by the gases produced by action of the rapid confined burning of a propellant. ...
Rampant Colt - The original logo of Colts Firearms Colts Manufacturing Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1847 by Samuel Colt in order to produce revolvers, which Colt held the patent on, during the Mexican-American War. ...
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Ball and hollowpoint 9mm Luger rounds The 9 mm Luger pistol cartridge (9 x 19 mm Parabellum, 9 x 19 mm NATO) was designed by firearms designer Georg Luger. ...
Design
The .38 Super is based upon the older .38 Auto (.38 ACP), the case being dimensionally identical but loaded to higher pressures. It was intended that the cartridge would headspace on its semi-rim but in this mode it soon gained a reputation for inaccuracy - whether this was due to the pistols or the cartridge is now moot - all new .38 Super pistols headspace on the case mouth. In firearms terms, headspace refers to the distance between the bolt face and chamber necessary for reliable functioning of the weapon, or as a verb, the mechanism by which the correct positioning is achieved. ...
The cartridge was designed for use in a modified 1911 pistol, the goal being to pierce through the steel armor mobsters added to their cars in the early 1930s. The .357 Magnum from Smith & Wesson came to be for the same reasons in that period. Mid 1945 produced US.M1911A1 US Army Colt by Remington Rand. ...
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A Modern Smith & Wesson Revolver (Model 629) Smith & Wesson is Americas largest manufacturer of handguns, located in Springfield, Massachusetts. ...
Semi-rimmed case can cause some feeding trouble in magazine, this problem has been solved in later rimless variants of .38 Super like .38 Supercomp or .38 Super Lapua.
Performance The .38 Super offers higher bullet velocities then the 9mm Luger, and it is better suited for hot-rodding as it has a longer casing which allows for larger powder charges. The .38 Super has made a huge comeback in IPSC sports shooting, particularly when equipped with a [[compensator], because it meets the minimum power level to be considered as a Major charge, while having more managable recoil than .45 ACP. ball and hollowpoint 9mm Luger rounds are popular handgun ammunition. ...
IPSC can mean: International Practical Shooting Confederation Inhibitory Post-Synaptic Current, in neurobiology iPSC, any of several high-performance computers manufactured by Intel This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
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Some special forces use hot-rod .38 Super cartridges because they are very capable at defeating body armor, armor on armored cars and armored glass at short ranges. This is only possible with special high quality match barrels that can withstand these powerful loads, in combination with steel core bullets. Special Forces are relatively small military units raised and trained for special operations missions such as Special Reconnaissance (SR), Unconventional Warfare (UW), Direct Action (DA), Counter-Terrorism (CT), and Foreign Internal Defense (FID). ...
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Muzzle velocity - 7.5 g (115 Gr) Full Metal Jacket: 425 m/s : 1395 ft/s
- 8.0 g (124 Gr) Full Metal Jacket: 410 m/s : 1346 ft/s
Notes Due to Mexican laws which have restricted the civilian use or possession of ammunition classified as "military caliber," such as 9mm, this is a popular round in Mexico, and to some extent in the adjacent U.S. states. For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ...
Synonyms - .38 Super Auto
- .38 Super ACP
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