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Originally Posted by HankG
When you stack cartriges with the base of a .38 Special, you don't get a straight stack as you do with a cartridge without a lip on the base. The stack is curved because of the lip. My Coonan was an excellent shooter in .357 Magnum. It would also handle .38s with a lighter recoil spring but the clips would only hold a certain amount of ammo and then you got into a banana like situation.
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I guess ya then need a
banana clip! 
Whoever says that rimmed cartridges don't work well in semi or full autos oughtta tell the Russians as they and their former Com-Bloc partners have been using the rimmed 7.62x54R in all manners of semi-auto rifles and machine guns forever.
My guess is it had to do with the low power and long case as much as any other factor , including the rim. Probably why the semi-rimmed .38 ACP/Colt Auto and later .38 Super came to be.