I don’t believe I’ve ever looked, does anyone make a good SD .38 Super load?Originally Posted by Robinson
I don’t believe I’ve ever looked, does anyone make a good SD .38 Super load?
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I’ve been down that road several times over the past decade and a half.
5” is still the best bet.
I have finally made peace with the fact that the magazines are just never going to be robust enough to actually count on for something that you’re going to use and carry every day and bet your life on at any given moment.
I had a DW Valkyrie Commander 9mm.
absolutely a dream to shoot, accurate, reliable, recoil impulse soft (like cheating), follow up shots in the .25 range or less with accuracy was boring and repeatable,
but those dam mags pushed me away.
and I still have these...
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Sig and Wilson Combat both offer 38 Super defensive ammo.
JAD may come along and chime in here. I know one of his go to pistols is a .38 Super.
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Those Metalform Springfield "front ramp" magazines work well in some of my 9x19 1911-pattern pistols. They seem to do better with guns with the feed ramp in the barrel, not the frame. Not sure why. They also feed better when the magazine catch holds the magazine just below the ejector.I had a DW Valkyrie Commander 9mm.
absolutely a dream to shoot, accurate, reliable, recoil impulse soft (like cheating), follow up shots in the .25 range or less with accuracy was boring and repeatable,
but those dam mags pushed me away.
and I still have these...
That being said, I have about as many as shown in the picture. I number them with fingernail polish, so when one starts to not feed I can set it aside to be serviced. They also hold exactly one 9x23 Winchester round as the divot in the front of the body stops any additional rounds from being loaded. Some of them have been relegated to that usage so I can top off the pistol, holding one in the chamber and nine in a real 9x23 magazine. All in all, they are some of the better 9x19 magazines.
Wilson (whose ammo quality I’ve had very good experience with) loads a couple of XTPs, but I have no reason to trust their terminal behavior. They load the Barnes XPB 115, which is on Doc’s ‘nice’ list and which I like because of high sectional density and structural integrity.
https://shopwilsoncombat.com/38-Supe...8SU-115-TACXP/
That’s what’s in my gun.
My back up is the Winchester 125 silver tip. There is also double tap, cor bon, and Buffalo Bore.
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Yep. Those Metalform Springfield mags are the best feeding 9mm mags. Wilson copied them for the new 9mm ETMs.
Partial mag reloads many times require the mag to be pulled out as the top round gets partially fed due to the tapered case locking the rim into the groove of the next round down.
I also had too many reloads that ended up with the top round worked out of the mag just enough for the bullet to hit the magwell and either not go in, or pop the round out into the magwell ahead of the magazine and clog up the works.
Sig P239 and Glock 43 are the best single stack 9mms I’ve used.
I agree the Metalform mags generally work well -- both the 7 and 8 round versions. The only problem I had with them is that I had several that started failing to lock the slide back on empty after a few hundred rounds. I did not have that problem with the latest generation of ETM mags.
I thought they had stopped making that, but then I realized they now sell it under the Super X brand.
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