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Originally Posted by Absalom
. . . Yet there are plenty of cases of (unaltered) .38 Special chambered guns fully seating .38 S&W cartridges. It might be interesting to find out whether similar tolerance margins prevailed in barrel production.
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Do you really think that S&W was actually that lax on tolerances?? They probably produced tens of thousands of cylinders that were all made on the exact same set of machinery. I have read, heard stories, but never ran across anyone who documented the fact that they had an unaltered gun. I guess I do not think would be easy to detect unless a conversion was done in someone's basement with a hand drill.
All I know is that shooting 38 Special in an altered 38 S&W can result in split cases, and relatively poor accuracy. I used to own a couple of altered 38 S&W M&Ps and both exhibited those characteristics.