My first .38 Super pistol wasn't really a .38 Super. Back in the late 1960s I bought a fairly crudely finished Spanish Llama "Extra" Military pistol from the pre-WWII period, essentially a M1911 knockoff but slimmed down a little. I believe it set me back around $25. They werel common finds at gun shows back then. It was actually chambered in 9x23 Largo. That ammunition was a little difficult to find, but it handled .38 Super just fine. I also fired some 9x23 Steyr in it which worked OK. The slide was marked "9mm/38" which meant that it would fire both 9mm Largo or .38 Super, and it did. I even used some 9x19 in it, but that proved to be a bad idea as I broke the extractor claw doing that. I welded and filed the extractor claw to shape and it worked. I traded it off for something else about 10 years later and immediately found that I really missed the Llama. Except for the crude arsenal reblue, it was a fine pistol.