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- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: HELP** 9mm vs. 38Super!!!!!
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:10:03 GMT
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- -> I regard the 38 super as a specialty IPSC round, and see little real
- -> need for it outside the one special application.
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- The story as I heard it (hearsay alert!) was that the Mexican
- government frowns on its citizens posessing firearms in the same
- calibers used by the Mexican military, which uses both .45 ACP and 9mm
- Parabellum. Thus the .38 Super is popular in Mexico.
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- Since many of the early combat pistol matches were in the southwest
- and in Mexico, many US shooters stuck with the Super so they could do
- all their competition with the same gun and ammo.
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- Ballistically there's not much difference between the .38 Super and 9mm
- Parabellum, particularly if you consider the many variations of 9mmP.
- Some people don't like the Super's rebated case, but that doesn't seem
- to be a real problem.
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