From: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu (Michael J. Edelman)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Re: Why no plastic cased .38 special?
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Date: 21 Dec 92 14:55:37 GMT
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In article 2573@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au, ghm@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au (Geoff Miller) writes:
#ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
#
##While staring at soem ACTIV brand 12 guage shells and reading my
##newest aquisitions (Cartridges of the World) I got to wondering...
#
##Why are there no {rifle,pistol, revolver} rounds loaded in plastic
##cases? Sure, we have the Aluminum Blazers, but why not plastic? ....
#
#Anyone (other than me:-) recall the Dardick and its "trounds"?
#These came in two calibres (.22 and .38), with the .38 being
#ballistically equivalent to a .38 Special. The tround was
#a 3-sided plastic case - in cross-section it would have looked
#like a triangle constructed with 3 arcs of a circle.
#
#Geoff Miller (g-miller@adfa.oz.au)
#Computer Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy
#
The *was* a plastic .38SPL round marketed briefly about 5 years ago. I don't
recall the name, but they were giving out free samples for a while. Wish I'd kept
a box intact. The big selling point was you could reload with only a very simple
reloading tool you held in one hand. There were special cast bullets that sort of snapped into the case. I think the tool was supposed to retail for around $5.
It did catch on. Reloaders want more flexibility, and the merely cheap just bought
reloads made by someone else. As to why we have aluminum disposable cases but not
