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Originally Posted by Wise_A
This is incorrect. .38 Super headspaces on the rim. The problem is that the early barrels made for it headspaced off of the mouth of the case. The cartridge was fine, the guys at the Colt factory were...well, I don't know what they were thinking.
If you had an aftermarket barrel installed that properly headspaced the cartridge, .38 Super was a real tackdriver.
I think Taffin has an article on this in the current issue of Handgunner. But I know he's definitely written about it in the past.
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...you have it reversed... The original 1903/.38 ACP and the COLT SUPER .38 1911 headspaced off the case rim...it was not till the 1970s when BarSto started making replacement barrels that headspaced off the case mouth like a .45 ACP that the 1911 in .38 Super became a tackdriver...