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.38 Special
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Mon Oct 21, 2013 10:06 amby The Duck Hammer
Anybody who has one what kind of hollow points do y'all shoot? Every time I look, which isn't often, all I can find is hollow points in +P. I have an older Taurus that isn't intended to shoot +P.
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Re: .38 Special
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Mon Oct 21, 2013 10:34 amby NuffDaddy
Whatever is cheapest
Re: .38 Special
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Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:20 amby The Duck Hammer
That's why I'm shooting lead round nose shells now but I'd like to have something more lethal if the big kitty gets a jump on me and I don't want to turn my gun into a hand grenade with +P.
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Re: .38 Special
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Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:57 amby RonE
NuffDaddy wrote:Whatever is cheapest
X2
Re: .38 Special
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Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:18 amby rebelp74
The Duck Hammer wrote:That's why I'm shooting lead round nose shells now but I'd like to have something more lethal if the big kitty gets a jump on me and I don't want to turn my gun into a hand grenade with +P.
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Then get something bigger than a 38
Re: .38 Special
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Tue Oct 22, 2013 6:08 amby Tomkat
You need a .357 mag
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Re: .38 Special
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Fri Oct 25, 2013 11:21 pmby Tiler_J
Off topic!!
Re: .38 Special
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Fri Oct 25, 2013 11:46 pmby The Duck Hammer
How? .357s and .38s are basically the same thing. I got a Blackhawk at my disposal as well and it will shoot .38 hollow points.
Re: .38 Special
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Fri Oct 25, 2013 11:56 pmby Tiler_J
The Duck Hammer wrote:How? .357s and .38s are basically the same thing. I got a Blackhawk at my disposal as well and it will shoot .38 hollow points.
Really?? Just get some .357 rounds for your .38 then. I am sure you will have no problem finding hollow points.
Re: .38 Special
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Sat Oct 26, 2013 12:00 amby The Duck Hammer
Tiler_J wrote:The Duck Hammer wrote:How? .357s and .38s are basically the same thing. I got a Blackhawk at my disposal as well and it will shoot .38 hollow points.
Really?? Just get some .357 rounds for your .38 then. I am sure you will have no problem finding hollow points.
Ok, they work one way but not the other.
Re: .38 Special
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Sat Oct 26, 2013 12:00 amby The Duck Hammer
And you're an ass.
Re: .38 Special
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Sat Oct 26, 2013 8:12 amby Tiler_J
The Duck Hammer wrote:And you're an ass.
I know.
Re: .38 Special
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:40 pmby aunt betty
38 special is not the same as .357 magnum.
Look. One is longer. It has more gunpowder. More powerful.
Re: .38 Special
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:42 pmby aunt betty
I can shoot 38 special in my Taurus 357.
There is a difference. People tend to freak when I pop off 357.
38 special, not so much.
Re: .38 Special
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:11 pmby assateague
I still don't understand why I can shoot .38 from a .357
Re: .38 Special
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:17 pmby The Duck Hammer
Because it is the same diameter bullet.
Re: .38 Special
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:19 pmby assateague
No it's not.
Re: .38 Special
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:48 pmby The Duck Hammer
.357 Magnum -
Parent case
.38 Special
Case type
Rimmed, straight
Bullet diameter
.357 in (9.1 mm)
.38 Special -
Parent case
.38 Long Colt
Case type
Rimmed, straight
Bullet diameter
.357 in (9.1 mm)
Re: .38 Special
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:51 pmby assateague
Then why the hell are they different calibers? Caliber=diameter, right?
Re: .38 Special
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:58 pmby The Duck Hammer
Cant answer that but they are the exact same bullet. I think it may have been to make it so that they weren't confused.
Re: .38 Special
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:06 pmby DeadEye_Dan
Obviously that worked well
Re: .38 Special
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:09 pmby AKPirate
You've never heard of the band .357 Special have you?
Re: .38 Special
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:22 pmby NuffDaddy
AKPirate wrote:You've never heard of the band .357 Special have you?
:lol:
Re: .38 Special
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Sat Jan 25, 2014 7:47 pmby hudson
Shoot had a shocks outta my colt daimondback
Re: .38 Special
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Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:18 pmby hudson
hudson wrote:Shoot hydra shocks outta my colt daimondback
Re: .38 Special
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Fri Feb 21, 2014 12:52 amby RonE
The design criteria for the .38 Special is 158 gr round nose lead bullet........Using hollow points or +P is not as effective as proper shot placement. If the .38 Special won't do what you want it to do, get a gun that will.
Re: .38 Special
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Fri Feb 21, 2014 12:29 pmby aunt betty
38 special sitting next to 357 magnum.
Re: .38 Special
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Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:07 pmby waterfowlman
You can also shoot .30 caliber carbine ammo in it if you're feeling adventurous. We outfitted a lot of the local tribesmen in Vietnam with Korean war surplus .30 cal. M1 carbines.
I had a few .38 S&W pistols I carried over there and ran out of ammo for them. One of the guys told me he heard that you could do that so I loaded a pistol with a cylinder full of the .30 carbine ammo and gave it to one of the Montagnard tribesman scouts I didn't really like too much to test fire for me. ( he didn't have a clue)
Damn thing shot just fine, so until I could get resupplied with .38 ammo the carbine stuff did the job.
Re: .38 Special
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Sat Feb 22, 2014 11:52 amby Tomkat
assateague wrote:Then why the hell are they different calibers? Caliber=diameter, right?
A rose is a flower by any other name.
Its just a name, caliber is really a naming convention or nomenclature.
Just go with the flow here AT, or I will be forced to Haiku your ass.
Re: .38 Special
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Sat Feb 22, 2014 12:04 pmby sws002
assateague wrote:Then why the hell are they different calibers? Caliber=diameter, right?
No. Quite rare actually. Look at rifle cartridges. .223 is actually .224, .270 is .277, .280 is .284, so on and so on. They are only names.