What rifle are you shooting? 92s are a problem with regular oal 38s.
You can load your 38s to a longer oal.
The ones I use for my rifle, I load to 1.55 oal.
Pistols 1.44 due to some revolvers not able to handle the longer cartridge.
I know several cowboys using the regular oal 38s in their 73s with no problems.
Longhunter has some good info on his website about shooting 38s in rifles.