New ideas 120 years ago - 38 ACP 8 shot automatic revolver.

[Warden Callaway 4,460]

 

Edited November 17, 2020 by Warden Callaway

[Alpo 6,216]

Nice video. Your title is wrong though. It is not a 380 ACP. It is a 38 ACP. Different cartridge. Much more powerful cartridge.

 

Nowadays they call it the 38 Super.

[DeaconKC 1,274]

The .38 ACP and Super .38 are NOT the same cartridge. The Super is loaded to higher pressure and will wreck a gun chambered for the .38 ACP. Please be careful with those older Colts and FNs!

[Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 517]

5 hours ago, DeaconKC said:

The .38 ACP and Super .38 are NOT the same cartridge. The Super is loaded to higher pressure and will wreck a gun chambered for the .38 ACP. Please be careful with those older Colts and FNs!

And Webleys, don't forget the Webleys, probably why that barrel is bulged.

[watab kid 969]

its interesting that there was so little military interest in the 38 at that point , the 455 was the accepted caliber till the late 20s then webley developed the 380 revolvers and the government proceeded to steal the design and produce it at enfield [also albion and HAC] for WWII phasing out the 455 with the enfield mkVI in the 30s 

Edited November 18, 2020 by watab kid
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[Warden Callaway 4,460]

Speed loaders 120 years ago.

 

 

 

[Three Foot Johnson 2,375]