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Originally Posted by bushmaster1313
Seems like the 38/44 is bigger than it needs to be for a 38 Special
What was the thinking when it was introduced?
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Cops needed a "magnum" to shoot through car bodies........ so the short answer was to soup up the .38 special ( lots of extra space in the case from it's black powder days)..... and fire it from an N-frame.......
Total redesign in 34/35 got us the ".357 magnum" still an N-frame only round till 1954/55.
On the 1911 auto side we got the ".38 Super"