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Post by taffin on Jun 25, 2020 13:15:16 GMT -5
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.38 Super,
Jun 25, 2020 13:16:36 GMT -5
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Post by Encore64 on Jun 25, 2020 13:16:36 GMT -5
I'd love Ruger to add the 38 Super to their 1911 lineup. Even better with a 6" longslide. Ditto for a 10mm longslide... I'M I'M WORKIN' ON THEM! I'd buy one of each and smile all the way home...
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Post by taffin on Jun 25, 2020 13:16:56 GMT -5
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Post by taffin on Jun 25, 2020 13:19:05 GMT -5
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Post by taffin on Jun 25, 2020 13:21:00 GMT -5
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Post by taffin on Jun 25, 2020 13:23:17 GMT -5
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Post by taffin on Jun 25, 2020 13:25:22 GMT -5
My deep love affair with the .38 Super goes way back as during the early 60s I read about the high praise Jeff Cooper had for the .38 Super. My fascination with the 1911 .38 Super really began more than 50 years ago when Cooper, who always pushed the .45 ACP, published a picture of a custom .38 Super 1911 and stated as a Trail Gun it would shoot rings around any 1911 chambered in .45 ACP especially for targets such as crows and coyotes.
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Post by rjm52 on Jun 26, 2020 5:21:29 GMT -5
...my interest started about the same time... I still have that Cooper article on his long barrel Commander in .38 Super that he used cut down .223 brass to basically make the first 9x23 Winchester. The one that got my attention (at only 16) was a 1968 article in SHOOTING TIMES that ran velocities up into the 1400s with UNIQUE and SR4756. I didn't get my first Super till 1980 but still had that article...and still do. And their loads did everything they said they would... One thing they never mentioned was...accuracy in the stock Colt SUPER .38 they used....probably because it used the stock barrel and was horrible. My GM would run 3'...that is FEET...groups at 50 yards... A 1952 Commander 18". After a friend gave me a HANDLOAER Magazine article talking about the BarSto barrel improvement I got barrels for each...the same ammo from the same box shot a 3" group with the GM and 3.5" from the Commander... Carried that Commander daily for 27 years. The GM won a boatload of trophies in IPSC and Police Combat matches... I still have both guns...and a dozen more in .38 Super. Finest semi-auto pistol cartridge made.... Bob Commander...1952 Current carry Commander...also a 1952... GM...
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Post by rjm52 on Jun 26, 2020 5:26:00 GMT -5
I'd buy one of each and smile all the way home... ...just buy any Ruger in 9mm and install any one of the .38 Super barrels made... Bob
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Post by rjm52 on Jun 26, 2020 5:31:07 GMT -5
Rey, you're right, I have 9's & 45's so I'm good! Back on the right track, thanks buddy. Dick ...when you get to Heaven....God is going to slap you upside the head and say.."What were you thinking..."
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Post by AxeHandle on Jun 26, 2020 6:37:20 GMT -5
Big Super fan here. Kind of a newbie though. Traded a Clark 38 Special wadcutter 1911 for for my first 38 Super in the early 80s. Went full bore IPSC with it. Flash forward 10 years and Jim Clark built one for Allen Fulford that was a 50 yard X ring gun. Had to have one and now have two. They shoot good and recoil like 22s.
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Post by sixshot on Jun 26, 2020 9:52:26 GMT -5
Bob, actually I did have a 38 Super at one time, one of the first S&W 8 shot revolvers but there really wasn't any USPSA class to shoot it in except for Production against the Glocks, etc so I eventually traded it off. Those factory red, white & blue stocks looked like they had been fitted with a chainsaw & then finished with a egg beater, yikes!
Dick
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Post by taffin on Jun 26, 2020 10:12:34 GMT -5
Big Super fan here. Kind of a newbie though. Traded a Clark 38 Special wadcutter 1911 for for my first 38 Super in the early 80s. Went full bore IPSC with it. Flash forward 10 years and Jim Clark built one for Allen Fulford that was a 50 yard X ring gun. Had to have one and now have two. They shoot good and recoil like 22s. MY FRIEND JIMMY CLARK MADE GRAND GUNS. CLARK COMBAT COMMANDER .45, DOES ONE-INCH AT 50 YARDS IN A MACHINE REST.
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.38 Super,
Jun 26, 2020 11:08:35 GMT -5
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Post by seminolewind on Jun 26, 2020 11:08:35 GMT -5
AxeHandle mentioned Allen Fulford. I haven't heard that name in decades. Back in the early 80's, we were just learning the IPSC game in Georgia and Mr. Fulford showed up at some of our local matches. He traveled with a State Trooper buddy, I can't remember his name, but they showed us how much we didn't know about match shooting. We were hosing targets and missing as much as we hit. His smooth technique and consistent A zone hits beat us every time. Great memories.
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Post by taffin on Jun 26, 2020 11:30:00 GMT -5
I FIRST MET ALLEN AT THE ORIGINAL MASTER'S TOURNAMENT IN 1988. GREAT SHOOTER AND FINE GENTLEMAN.
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