.38 Great
| .38 Great | |
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| general information | |
| caliber | .38 Super, .38 Super Auto |
| Dimensions | |
| Floor ⌀ | 9.04 mm |
| Cartridge bottom ⌀ | 10.31 mm |
| Sleeve length | 22.86 mm |
| Cartridge length | 32.51 mm |
| Weights | |
| Bullet weight | 8.4 g (130 grain ) |
| Technical specifications | |
| Speed v 0 | 398 m / s |
| Max. Gas pressure | 2300 bar |
| Bullet energy E 0 | up to 740 y |
| Lists on the subject | |
.38 Super , also known as .38 Super Auto , is a pistol cartridge developed and widely used in the USA .
description
The .38 Super ammunition is a cartridge developed as an alternative to the .380 ACP . It is longer than the more common 9 mm Parabellum . The larger powder charge that this makes possible gives the projectile a higher speed and thus higher projectile energy and higher projectile momentum than the 9 × 19 mm projectile. The .38 Super is not widely used by the police and security forces, although it has the advantage over the .40 S&W that it can accommodate more ammunition in the pistol magazine due to the 1 mm slimmer cartridge. Colt still produces pistols in .38 Super caliber, but with a single-row magazine with nine cartridges.
Dimensions
literature
- Frank C. Barnes: Cartridges of the World , Krause Publications, Iola (Wisconsin) 2009, page 258, ISBN 978-0-89689-936-0
Web links
Commons : .38 super collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ CIP 38 Super Auto (PDF, 22.5 kB) ( Memento from August 26, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ History of the development of the .38 Super (cartridge), English, (accessed on July 7, 2009) ( Memento of July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ "The 38 Super compared to other pistol cartridges" Comparison of the .38 Super with other handgun ammunition, engl. (accessed on July 4, 2009) ( Memento from March 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )