I know, and I am not yet. Haven't reloaded since college, almost thirty years ago. .45 ACP wadcutters are available, too. [Fingers crossed] next house, I promise, and before I retire.[/Fingers crossed].Originally Posted by revchuck38
Just FYI, if you’re a handloader, you can get SWCs for 9x19s.
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Given the condition and there having been less than 100 Model 23s shipped, I wouldn’t run snap caps in it until doing some research.
The price the OP paid may have been a digit short.
I suspected the price you paid was short a digit.
Congrats!
Have you checked to see if it has been reamed out to take .357 rounds? It was commonly done with many N frame .38s.
The first indication a bad guy should have that I'm dangerous is when his
disembodied soul is looking down at his own corpse wondering what happened.
Quite true, from what I’ve read, but yup, and it has not been modified.
Det1397,
If you want to know what it was like shooting the original 38-44 ammunition find a box of Buffalo Bore 38 Special +P, 158g Outdoorsman ammo. It almost perfectly duplicates the original which was a 158g bullet at 1125 fps. Last time I chronographed that load in my 5" Heavy Duty it produced that velocity and a little bit more.
Dave
If the gun is worth CRAZY money, I'd not shoot it. Take the profit and run.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
SCSW 3rd Edition lists value as “To rare to estimate”[emoji15]
Unless you are primarily a collector, if a gun is too valuable to shoot it's to valuable to buy. Guns were designed and built to shoot.
Dave
Fwiw 11.5gr 2400 under 158gr swc gets 1089fps from a 4" m64.
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