Who can identify these 38 caliber ammos?

I think what you have there is (L to R)
357
38 Special
38 S&W

You have 2 out of 3 correct. Hint: there is no 357 cartridge in the picture.

38spl, 38 S&W, 38 Short Colt

Perhaps a 38-40 ?

And we have a winner!

Is the short colt the one on the left?

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Mike
S&WCA #3065

Is the middle guy .38 Long Colt? Others look like .38 Spcl. and .38 S&W. I think the latter is also known as .38 Colt New Police.

I'm with Texas Star. Looks to me like .38 Spl, .38 Long Colt, .38S&W. (.38 Colt N.P. would carry a FP bullet)

Larry

The correct answer is: 38 Special, 38 S&W, and 38 Colt

Which L to R is .38 S&W Spl., .38 Colt (Starline brass says .38 long colt right on it, so that is a 'correct' answer as well), then .38 s&w (which is also known as (colt) .38 new police), .38 short colt is almost exactly the same length as .38 s&w (and 9x19).

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Certified Curmudgeon

The .38 S&W is the only 'TRUE' .38 cal. cartridge there.

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"He was kinda funny lookin'"

I tried, but my .38 experience is limited to .357 / .38 sp. I actually knew about the 38 S&W because a friend brought me two boxes during the ammo drought, thinking they were doing me a favor. I sold it, and got enough out of it to buy what I needed.

Oh well, I'll know better next time

The book , Cartridges Of The World , is a wealth of information when it comes to identifying ammo and learning the history and "other names" they are known by. I have found it to come in handy many times when reloading or to figure out what strange brass I picked up at the local range . Like the 38 AMU cases I came home with one day....38 AMU ? That one threw me but the book had the answer and the history of it. This was in the days BC (Before Computers) no google back then.
For anyone who is interested it's a good read.
Gary

Looking at the length of the middle case would lead me to believe that it's a 38 long colt and not 38 short colt.

Because it is.

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Certified Curmudgeon

Just as a bit of trivia I happen to have some modern Remington .38 Short Colt - that is what the box is labeled and the brass is marked ".38 SC"

It is a lot shorter than the round pictured and may be shorter than the .38 S&W by a tad.

I know there is great debate on whether there is actually a ".45 Long Colt" and I've never seen any head-stamped like that, but I really see no reason to think someone referring to the longer .38 as a "long Colt" would be incorrect.

Riposte

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".38 short colt is almost exactly the same length as .38 s&w"

Believe it or not, the .38 SC is still available, despite its great age. It can be used in any revolvers chambered in .38 S&W without dire consequences, although it is slightly smaller in diameter. It can also be used in any .38 Special or .357 revolver. It is fairly popular among ICORE shooters, primarily because its short length allows fired cases to be extracted completely in one stroke from .38 hand ejector revolvers, which speeds up reloading during rapid fire. If you happen to have a small .38 Special snubby with a short extractor rod, it will do the same thing. Just the thing for the Colt Detective Special and S&W Model 10 snubbies. It can be reloaded to .38 Special ballistics, but factory load ballistics are close to the puny .38 S&W.

"I know there is great debate on whether there is actually a ".45 Long Colt" and I've never seen any head-stamped like that, but I really see no reason to think someone referring to the longer .38 as a "long Colt" would be incorrect."

There is no such thing as a .45 Long Colt, only .45 Colt. But the ".45 Long Colt" term is in such wide usage it has become accepted. And I think some newer cartridge boxes are stamped as containing .45 Long Colt. There is no .38 Colt (other than the .38 Colt New Police which is the same as the .38 S&W). But there is a .38 Short Colt, a .38 Long Colt, and a .38 Colt Special (no longer made, but identical to the .38 S&W Special, except for the bullet shape).