.38 Special is a good cartridge. Best suited for compact revolvers with +P defensive loads, and as practice ammo for .357 Magnum revolvers, pistols, and rifles.
If you have a .357 Magnum rifle and a suitable enquitener, then .38 Special will typically be nice as most loads are subsonic.
It's "weaker" than 9mm despite being bigger unless you get a +P loading.
A std pressure, hard cast, 158gr SWC .38spl will completely penetrate a human torso. That's literally all you can ask of a SD round.
>bullets at typical handgun velocities must physically touch tissue to damage it as there are no remote wounding effects caused by the temporary cavity exceeding the elasticity of human flesh at these velocities >in order to successfully incapacitate a threat via physical damage vital structures must be damaged >only rounds with adequate penetration can reach these vital structures >shot placement and penetration are the only factors that determine the effectiveness of any given handgun round to cause physical damage to vital structures >the only downside to maximizing penetration with bullet selection is over-penetration >if you don't care about overpenetration there is no reason to ever use hollowpoints because they limit penetration in exchange for an increase in surface area which is only a theoretically worthwhile exchange if you know for a FACT that expansion will not limit your penetration to unacceptable levels >round nose bullets are inferior to bullets with square shoulders and flat meplats in their ability to cut tissue >assuming two rounds have equally adequate penetration the better round of the two will be the one you can shoot faster while maintaining accuracy.
Hits count. First hits count most. Carry whatever gun/caliber combo you can make fast accurate hits with. Everything else is marketing bullshit designed to have you paying for overpriced meme ammunition.
RN penetrated great but it sucks because it "slips" through tissue where a WC or SWC with a wide flat meplat and square shoulders will "cut" tissue. You can see this effect on paper by how clean the holes of WC/SWC are compared to RN.
if they are the same weight they'll penetrate about the same, although swc would cut a better hole due to that flat meplat, and go straighter while round nose is more likely to veer off course.
In faster rounds swcs can have better penetration due to cavitation as well but you need decent velocity for that.
Not scientific don't care. Based on the best data we have all handgun calibers .32 and above are statistically equivalent in effectiveness for SD use. Speed and accuracy are what matters. Whatever gun/ammo combo you can shoot fast and accurate is good enough. Practice trumps everything else people argue over and they're usually arguing over it because they don't practice enough and want to feel they have bought an edge. You can't buy competence.
>a scientifically designed tested medium
Gelatin can tell you that ammo X penetrates 15% more than ammo Y. It does not and was never intended to simulate what the ammo does to flesh. The standard of 12-18 inches in gelatin came from observing that ammo that was effective in real shootouts penetrates about that far in gelatin.
is 100% correct. The only physical property that ballistic gel is density. Human and animal flesh isn't some monolithic gel, it's fibrous, and is made of trillions of fluid filled cells that won't snap back into place like gel when a hole is blasted through it. And Bernie Goetz is the perfect example of why i wouldn't want to use .38 for SD. he shot 4 teenagers and scored no kills. >But the goal is to stop, not kill
That's just what you say in court so you don't look like a psycho. Those nogs where able to win the civil suit against him because they were alive to go to court and cry about him being racist to them. Even if your survived unharmed you still failed to fully defend yourself if your attacker is alive. I would never say this if it wasn't true.
Goetz carried a gun on a subway where it wasnt exactly legal and he was quoted as saying "you look like you could use another" and shot a guy on the ground who was already out of the fight. his version of the events wasnt exactly corroborated or disproved by other subway goers. but dont shoot a dude while making your one liner.
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Nice trips, but you can still face slander in court even if you do everything by the book. Your attacker dying and not being able to show to court is the best case scenario.
The nogs won the civil suit because judge threw out evidence that put the nogs in bad light, like when after the shooting one of them admitted to wanting to rob the guy or whatever, and also threw out evidence that one of them had been arrested for a violent crime after the shooting.
He defended himself from 4 people, name another successful self defense case against 4 people, you can't.
2 years ago
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Kyle defended himself from 4, though one remained unharmed.
2 years ago
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>He defended himself from 4 people, name another successful self defense case against 4 people, you can't.
Lance Thomas.
2 years ago
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Not the same thing. Lance was in a fixed location targeted by a street gang in multiple distributed attacks and none of those attacks involved 4 people at once.
2 years ago
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Kyle Rittenhouse. >First assailant chased him down and tried to murder him with his own weapon, got shot in the chest while grabbing the barrel. Died. Mob forms and goes after him. >Second assailant got shot at, but the bullet missed, then he realized shit was real and fled the scene. Alive. >Third assailant hit him in the head with a skateboard, then took a single .223 to the chest and collapsed to the ground in a second. Dead. >Fourth assailant drew a gun, feigned surrender, then got shot in the arm when he was about to take aim again, disabling his gun hand. Alive.
The defendant was freed on all charges, in spite of extremely foul play by the district attorney, the video evidence, witness testimony, and autopsy report, were all conclusively in his favor.
2 years ago
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I really hope that DA got black faxxed to oblivion.
>a scientifically designed tested medium? >frick off, I don't believe in that gay nonsense >random butthole shooting meat and oranges? >holy shit, so true!
Not scientific don't care. Based on the best data we have all handgun calibers .32 and above are statistically equivalent in effectiveness for SD use. Speed and accuracy are what matters. Whatever gun/ammo combo you can shoot fast and accurate is good enough. Practice trumps everything else people argue over and they're usually arguing over it because they don't practice enough and want to feel they have bought an edge. You can't buy competence.
Not him, but a factor not considered in the scientific tests is landwhales. If theyre basing penetration results on a "normal" person, they could be gimping people. Xboxhueg fatties obviously have low impulse control. Blacks are notoriously obese. .38spc or 9mm will be fine against gangly hoodblacks, but if Yolanda the Hamplanet gets mad at you paying with cash at a grocery store while her EBT card is broken, a .357 may be the correct answer. That 12-18" penetration in gel wouldnt be enough if the attacker is covered in 12-18" of adipose tissue
Hard cast 158gr SWC or 148gr WC is gonna penetrate a fatty plenty good enough.
2 years ago
Anonymous
A .38 wadcutter probably. But im really arguing against 9mm absolutists. 115 gr 9mm HPs may get stuck in a fatty titty. any screaming of "I caint breeve" could just be them exasperated from their own mass as the lungs are undamaged
2 years ago
Anonymous
9mm is a solid round. It's cheap due to economies of scale. There's literally nothing wrong with it. There's also nothing wrong with .38spl if you are opting for a revolver for whatever reason.
2 years ago
Anonymous
i agree, own both and like that painting.
2 years ago
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Or if you like revolvers but also like cheaper ammo, get a revolver in 9mm.
Even more so because penetration in gel is quite a bit more than in an actual human.
1. The calibration bb penetrates like 3 inches
2. jelly doesn't have bones
>a scientifically designed tested medium
Gelatin can tell you that ammo X penetrates 15% more than ammo Y. It does not and was never intended to simulate what the ammo does to flesh. The standard of 12-18 inches in gelatin came from observing that ammo that was effective in real shootouts penetrates about that far in gelatin.
>a scientifically designed tested medium?
No. It only provides an analog on the density of human flesh, not the damage that the projectile does. Animal flesh is closer to human flesh than gel.
Gel is not a flesh simulator. All it is is a uniform medium for generating comparative data.
2 years ago
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Exactly. All it does it measure how far a round penetrates, not the damage it does to flesh. Paul's meat targets are goofy, but tell you more about what bullets do to bodies than gel
Well to be pedantic dead tissue doesn't behave the same way as living tissue, so it's still not a perfect analog and there's something to be said for the consistency that gel testing provides. But as Paul Harrell said himself in one video, there's plenty of people doing jelly tests so we wouldn't gain much from him doing jelly tests in addition.
The meat target does offer more insight into hollow point expansion though. As HPs are much more likely to lose their jacket or not expand as well in the meat target as they do in gel. Again it's still not a fair analog to a living organism, but I'll just hollow point expansion and integrity from the meat target more seriously than that in jelly.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>dead tissue doesn't behave the same way as living tissue
True, but it's still better than gel. We just need someone with the balls to do tests on live pigs.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Do you really need balls to do that? >trap wild hogs >fill them with sedatives >string them up >shoot
It's an extremely ethical method of execution. The issue is money and time.
Flesh undergoes many changes post mortem, significantly effecting mechanical properties in terms of strength and elasticity. As does the freezing and thawing process. Studies done by fackler back in the 90s(iirc) on pigs showed that an animal had to be shot within 15 minutes of death to accurately represent wound cavities on a live one. That's to say nothing of the fruit, if you don't understand why that's gonna exaggerate cavitation then you aren't even worth talking to.
literally closer to shooting something that’s alive and made of flesh than gel is
eggheads are fbi don’t use because they are obsessed to the point of stupidity with repeatability
if you don’t trust the dead meat target, i encourage you to go handgun hunting, and you will find out that ballistics gel does not reflect what you see in the field, and a deer body is closer to a human body than gelatin
bodies aren’t repeatable
>soft gelatin which you can easily dig your finger into is analogous to living flesh
It's obviously not perfect, but it's essentially an improvised cadaver test, which may not tell you about stuff like bleeding, but it'll give you a rough idea on how projectiles may behave in similar flesh, as well as to what resistance bones put up for your given gun and load.
It's probably the best kind of test medium you can devise short of scoring a proper cadaver, or testing on a living target, both which present some not easily solved problems.
>All actual shots plus my draw time occurred easily within 1.6 seconds or less. This is not as difficult to do as some might think, and occasionally I give a description of the technique along with a re-enactment.
>unless you get a +P loading.
Standard pressure 9mm still makes .38 +p look wimpy. .38 falls between .380 and 9mm and leans more towards the .380 side, especially in snubbies.
> Mundane
That's what makes it perfect.
Sorry it's not exciting enough for you, turns out that just because something is not part of a new and exciting fad makes no difference irl.
If your carry gun is anything other than a .357 caliber variation then your other life choices are probably very questionable.
Sometimes simplicity is what makes a thing great. It works, and it's been working since 1898. +p will bump it up to 9mm levels while being at half pressure, and there's tons of modern hollowpoints that work because of advances in technology. I use Federal Punch 120 grain +p, I've seen tests, it penetrates just fine
Please tell me you don't store that gun in that foam case with the lid closed all the time. If you own an out of production blued revolver you should consider yourself a caretaker. I'm not saying not to use it as a tool because that's what it is just take as good care of it as you can. Have pity on some younggay you don't even know who is gonna want that piece after you're gone.
Please go buy this: https://www.amazon.com/Birchwood-Casey-1003530-Universal-Grease/dp/B003ITB8NS
Then cut up a t-shirt or use painter's rags and impregnate the cloth with the grease and wipe your blued guns down after handling.
She's my carry piece, a gun the police nicked off some guy, got it for cheap mostly because it wasn't taken care of the best. As for the young gay comment, in a way, that was me this year when I bought it. I intend on taking good care of her, she's my friend after all. Thanks for the tips by the way
Lol ok, dont get it but ok. But really I went for a revolver because it had been sitting in that case for a year, and I knew it was a Smith. Can't get much better than that, and I'm not buying some shit PSA dagger
I have shot a car quite a bit with .38, 9mm, .308, 5.56 and 12 gauge. Jacketed .38 and hollowpoints goes through windshields fine I have personally seen lead roundnose .38 NOT penetrate windshields. I wanted to see if the Dirty Harry line that he'd "seen .38s bounce off windshields" was true and it was if and only if I shot lead roundnose. Dont remember the grain. It was magtech brand iirc. Fun test in pic related you can actually see the shot that didnt penetrate the windshield
To be fair, I'm looking to penetrate a crackhead, not a car. The fact is the FBI and police used it for decades with great success, hollowpoints have only gotten better, ammo is common, recoil is soft, and reloading is a breeze. I'll be fine if a crackhead gets twitchy, he wont
>jacketed .38 and hollowpoints penetrated windhshields fine >lead roundnose did not
I hope you arent carrying lead roundnose anon. Otherwise carry on, idk why you replied really other than that.
Does he see himself shooting a crackhead sitting in a car, or from inside his car? Seems if the latter he oughta just fricking floor it instead.
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That's another point. I'm not the cops. If I'm in a car, I'm gonna be playing Gas Gas Gas as I get the frick out of the fire fight. If I'm getting into a prolonged engagement, something has gone terribly wrong, especially where I live, which is pretty peaceful all things considered. My Mod 36 38 special has more than enough put down to make the average thug, which I very much doubt is gonna be wearing a level III plate, regret fricking with me. It still has more power than 380 auto, and +p loads can be brought up to base 9mm power levels while retaining mild recoil; tldr, the ultimate balance
2 years ago
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I meant run the crackhead over, but I guess just fleeing wouldn't need to be defended in a court of law. And yeah, I think .38 Special is a great cartridge for compact revolvers, decent power together with a gun which can't be limpwristed or pushed out of battery, in case it has to be shot really really close.
I'm carrying JHP, so I'm fine I guess. Point still remains. While that test is nice and fine, when am I shooting out a windshield in my car when I'm walking down the sidewalk late at night when some crackhead wants to get froggy?
It's a fine old bullet. Shoots everything from soft .380 special power loads up to 9mm+p+ equivalent loads with select +p ammo. The only thing with more diversity is a .357. and sometimes that's just not important, like with a small pocket revolver.
>60+ yr old loading of an unjacketed lead hollow point >Put it in a shiny new box with HIGH TERMINAL PERFORMANCE and sell it for 80CPR to like it's a modern JHP
Fuyukai tbh
https://www.buffalobore.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=108
474 ft lbs from a 4 inch barrel. It can, and does get as hot as your +p+ loadings.
BB is pretty good about being right on the money with their advertised velocities too whereas big box stores tend to run lower than expected.
Is it really a waste to buy a .357 revolver but carry .38 in it? I see people say that but I really like the heavier feel of .357s, especially when it's a 4inch barrel and not a 2inch snubby. I have a 3inch .38 I love but I've rented some bigger .357s and they feel great.
Of course not. If you have a gun that can fire two calibers you've opened your options massively with one purchase. .38spcl and .357 are fine calibers. It's not a waste to use .38 in a .357.
I am a revolver and lever gun enthusiast but I own multiple 9mm handguns for self defense. I enjoy the .38 special and .357 magnum very much but as far as the .38 special goes it's pretty well surpassed by 9mm in just about most measurements you could strive for. It's a wonder as is that the .38 special is still relevant. I love shooting my wheelguns and leverguns and .38 special through them all the same. The cool thing about .38 special to this day is that it's naturally subsonic so it's really quiet in a suppressed lever gun. Mine is basically inaudible.
Yeah 9mm is a pretty good round to fill the gap between .38 and .357. I have a convertable revolver that has both a .357 and a 9mm cylinder which I quite like. If I wanted a small revolver for pocket carry, I'd probably choose an LCR in 9mm.
No, .38 SPC suffers the same problem as .380 ACP in that a lot of HP ammo won't reliably expand, or not expand very much. Whereas modern 9mm will expand much more reliably even out of short barrels. Sure if you already had a revolver that could handle .38 +P that's probably be the better option, but if you're buying a revolver IMO you'd be better off getting 9mm if you're not sure you'll use .357.
Also penetration matters more than people think. Not every shot is a perfect frontal shot and bullets deflect off of bone and other material so may not be passing through the shortest distance from someone's chest to there back.
There's also the matter of just because the temporary wound cavity doesn't cause permanent tissue damage, doesn't mean it has zero effect on the target.
It is fine but no longer the most economical choice. 9x19 shoots people just as dead but the ammo is cheaper and abundant.
.38 is great for reloading, the cases last dozens of reload cycles and the amount of loads is great. You can even load them with BP if you so wish.
All of recorded history. Handgun terminal ballistics is literally settled science. The surface area you gain from expansion is not going to magically turn a bad hot into a good one. And expansion does limit penetration. If you know 100% your load penetrates adequately while also expanding then please feel free to use it. It's a bonus. I only care about knowing 100% my rounds penetration is not gimped in anyway and that I can put my shots rapidly and accurately into vital structures.
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>The surface area you gain from expansion is not going to magically turn a bad hot into a good one.
ummmm no, but it can if your shot is off by a fraction of an inch. If you're going to shoot non expanding ammo, at least shoot .45 so at least you have a bigger boolet right off the bat, compared to an expanded 9mm.
That too. Because of its extremely low pressure, you just keep reloading .38 until the brass splits in the reloader. It may be more expensive to get the brass, but reloading is a breeze, and you can use cast lead if u want
It's a very weak, slow round, along the same line as .45 acp. The saami pressures for these rounds are in the 15000-21000 psi range, whereas nearly every other common round is around 35000 psi, and some much more. Basically, the volume of the cartridge isn't very well utilized. If you're just plinking, none of this matters. But if you are shooting with a purpose nearly any other cartridge can do it better, whatever your task.
I own a 357 mag but there isn't any point to shooting 38 spl for me since I hand load and can make my bullets do whatever I want them to.
You get more and more moronic with every post. The femoral and iliac are both easier to reach than thoracic vessels and ass cheeks don't exactly have any major blood vessels either. >Inb4 muh pelvic girdle meme
Not how boney support in that area works, not that you'd know.
Nah, those are generally trophy guns, the guns in question may be different but for actual crime, criminals always favor a weapon which can be concealed on your person, ergo conventional handguns.
Nah, those are generally trophy guns, the guns in question may be different but for actual crime, criminals always favor a weapon which can be concealed on your person, ergo conventional handguns.
Yeah if I'm looking to rob a place, walking in with a ar, in Chicago no less, which will tip off the cops immediately, is kinda stupid. A revolver or handgun these gangbangers can hide is how robberies work
It's good.
It's easy to find.
In a SHTF scenario, it would, therefore, be easy to find.
It can be fired from both wheel guns and carbines.
It's cheapish.
It's very low on recoil.
If you get a .357 platform, you can fire these too.
It's a classic.
.38 is outdated to shit and is one of the few rounds available today that could fully be considered "obsolete". It offers zero benefit over almost any modern semi-auto handgun cartridge. That being said, a 120ish grain piece of copper and lead moving 800+ FPS is just as deadly now as it was 100 years ago. The capability to put holes in things will always be invaluable regardless of the quality or amount of holes.
Tl;dr- Old bullet shoot bad, but bad is still pretty good
They're only obsolete for emasculated homosexuals who don't spend their days sitting in darkened run down offices sipping straight whisky and chain smoking cigarettes as the next femme fatale pleads her fake sob story as she tries to play you for a sucker and get you to do all her dirty work for her. just like the last dame who walked through that door one hot Los Angeles day, as the sun beat down on all the other poor rubes just trying to make a living. and i don't know if it's that same sun or the girl that's making this office hotter than hell right now as i sit here listening to her repeating practiced lines with blinds across the windows and a pain behind the eyes.
Real men don't need to inconvenience and handicap themselves intentionally to try and convince everyone they're men
At least you're aware you need to put in the extra effort
Now post a Mad Men pic to show how not mad you are
lol salty gays mad that someone has a good time on the internet. You could worry more about what you enjoy and less about what others enjoy. Just a thought.
Real men don't need to inconvenience and handicap themselves intentionally to try and convince everyone they're men
At least you're aware you need to put in the extra effort
Now post a Mad Men pic to show how not mad you are
Show me a good and reliable .44 Magnum automatic which is readily available.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Show me a good and reliable automatic 24 pdr which is readily available. What? You can't? Wow, that means to me that cannons are still viable because I'm a moronic fricking idiot like you
If you're going to be a LARPer, you can just be a LARPer, just be a man about it and own it
2 years ago
Anonymous
>has never heard of handgun hunting >has never heard of metallic silhouette target shooting >has never heard of bear defense
Anon, it's ok to be gay, it's 2022.
>A 1991 ram 3500 can tow 12,000lbs >a 2022 ram 3500 can tow 37,000lbs with the perfect setup and a 5th wheel >the trailer you need to tow weighs 4,000lbs >truck A is considered obsolete despite exceeding the requirements to do the job by 3 fold because other options can do the same job with the same result but "better".
You wont ever have to tow a 7 ton trailer for the purposes of the analogy. You're a bigger LARPer than revolver chads. >n-no you dont get it, I'm gonna take on 17 Yakuza who attack me while I pick up a cheesesteak sandwich all with my handgun and two spare mags
You're a dumbass. A .38 will handle vast majority of civilian applications pertaining to daily carry self defence. And the ones it wont, you'll die anyway.
While 7 tons is a common gvwr for trailers to have, I almost never see them behind pickups. It's usually 10k trailers or 14k behind medium duty dump trucks hauling a bobcat to their next job.
Many people will carry a knife on their left side in case they get in a situation where their right hand is busy, and they need a weapon.
I think a 38 spl revolver is the ideal weapon for this use case, over a knife.
So overall, it’s good
Can't base shit on one report. Either get some and test it or get something else. All factory ammo is a crapshoot which is why I carry my own handloads.
It's good
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Weak sauce .357
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It's good
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It's not actually that special.
You take that back.
Pretty mediocre round in the current year. But it's damn fun to shoot from a heavy revolver
>heavy
I'm a wristlet and standard pressure is soft and fun from a 22 oz snub.
.38 Special is a good cartridge. Best suited for compact revolvers with +P defensive loads, and as practice ammo for .357 Magnum revolvers, pistols, and rifles.
If you have a .357 Magnum rifle and a suitable enquitener, then .38 Special will typically be nice as most loads are subsonic.
Wanna bet?
Last time I posted a pic of my dick in my Model 10, I got banned 🙁
"Hold on Loosely" was OK
Donnie was the most talented of the Van Zant brothers though
Caught Up in You was also good
Stone Cold Believers.
They have some pretty catchy songs, hold on loosely, second chance, first time around. Just listen to all their albums and pick out what you like
Underrated (post and band)
>tfw they changed their name from .38 special to 38 special
They went from being profuns to nofuns and i cannot forgive them for that.
Slightly cheaper if you wanna shoot more boolet out 357 revolver. Also they go good with milk
It's good
it's okay, but a bit underpowered. .38 spl +P is alright.
A std pressure, hard cast, 158gr SWC .38spl will completely penetrate a human torso. That's literally all you can ask of a SD round.
>bullets at typical handgun velocities must physically touch tissue to damage it as there are no remote wounding effects caused by the temporary cavity exceeding the elasticity of human flesh at these velocities
>in order to successfully incapacitate a threat via physical damage vital structures must be damaged
>only rounds with adequate penetration can reach these vital structures
>shot placement and penetration are the only factors that determine the effectiveness of any given handgun round to cause physical damage to vital structures
>the only downside to maximizing penetration with bullet selection is over-penetration
>if you don't care about overpenetration there is no reason to ever use hollowpoints because they limit penetration in exchange for an increase in surface area which is only a theoretically worthwhile exchange if you know for a FACT that expansion will not limit your penetration to unacceptable levels
>round nose bullets are inferior to bullets with square shoulders and flat meplats in their ability to cut tissue
>assuming two rounds have equally adequate penetration the better round of the two will be the one you can shoot faster while maintaining accuracy.
Hits count. First hits count most. Carry whatever gun/caliber combo you can make fast accurate hits with. Everything else is marketing bullshit designed to have you paying for overpriced meme ammunition.
How does RN compare to SWC in penetration on large animals? Might be apples and oranges since RN are usually about 132gr...
RN penetrated great but it sucks because it "slips" through tissue where a WC or SWC with a wide flat meplat and square shoulders will "cut" tissue. You can see this effect on paper by how clean the holes of WC/SWC are compared to RN.
Clearly we need something like the FBI penetration standard, but for bears.
call it the For Bears Index to help differentiate from the FBI
mother of god
if they are the same weight they'll penetrate about the same, although swc would cut a better hole due to that flat meplat, and go straighter while round nose is more likely to veer off course.
In faster rounds swcs can have better penetration due to cavitation as well but you need decent velocity for that.
Paul Harrell's meat targets debunk that nonsense. Biological flesh does not behave like gelatin. It doesn't snap back into place
Look at how much more damage .357 does than 9mm
Not scientific don't care. Based on the best data we have all handgun calibers .32 and above are statistically equivalent in effectiveness for SD use. Speed and accuracy are what matters. Whatever gun/ammo combo you can shoot fast and accurate is good enough. Practice trumps everything else people argue over and they're usually arguing over it because they don't practice enough and want to feel they have bought an edge. You can't buy competence.
This guy
is 100% correct. The only physical property that ballistic gel is density. Human and animal flesh isn't some monolithic gel, it's fibrous, and is made of trillions of fluid filled cells that won't snap back into place like gel when a hole is blasted through it. And Bernie Goetz is the perfect example of why i wouldn't want to use .38 for SD. he shot 4 teenagers and scored no kills.
>But the goal is to stop, not kill
That's just what you say in court so you don't look like a psycho. Those nogs where able to win the civil suit against him because they were alive to go to court and cry about him being racist to them. Even if your survived unharmed you still failed to fully defend yourself if your attacker is alive. I would never say this if it wasn't true.
>The only physical property that ballistic gel is density.
The only physical property that ballistic gel shares with flesh is density*
Goetz carried a gun on a subway where it wasnt exactly legal and he was quoted as saying "you look like you could use another" and shot a guy on the ground who was already out of the fight. his version of the events wasnt exactly corroborated or disproved by other subway goers. but dont shoot a dude while making your one liner.
Nice trips, but you can still face slander in court even if you do everything by the book. Your attacker dying and not being able to show to court is the best case scenario.
The nogs won the civil suit because judge threw out evidence that put the nogs in bad light, like when after the shooting one of them admitted to wanting to rob the guy or whatever, and also threw out evidence that one of them had been arrested for a violent crime after the shooting.
He defended himself from 4 people, name another successful self defense case against 4 people, you can't.
Kyle defended himself from 4, though one remained unharmed.
>He defended himself from 4 people, name another successful self defense case against 4 people, you can't.
Lance Thomas.
Not the same thing. Lance was in a fixed location targeted by a street gang in multiple distributed attacks and none of those attacks involved 4 people at once.
Kyle Rittenhouse.
>First assailant chased him down and tried to murder him with his own weapon, got shot in the chest while grabbing the barrel. Died. Mob forms and goes after him.
>Second assailant got shot at, but the bullet missed, then he realized shit was real and fled the scene. Alive.
>Third assailant hit him in the head with a skateboard, then took a single .223 to the chest and collapsed to the ground in a second. Dead.
>Fourth assailant drew a gun, feigned surrender, then got shot in the arm when he was about to take aim again, disabling his gun hand. Alive.
The defendant was freed on all charges, in spite of extremely foul play by the district attorney, the video evidence, witness testimony, and autopsy report, were all conclusively in his favor.
I really hope that DA got black faxxed to oblivion.
>a scientifically designed tested medium?
>frick off, I don't believe in that gay nonsense
>random butthole shooting meat and oranges?
>holy shit, so true!
Not him, but a factor not considered in the scientific tests is landwhales. If theyre basing penetration results on a "normal" person, they could be gimping people. Xboxhueg fatties obviously have low impulse control. Blacks are notoriously obese. .38spc or 9mm will be fine against gangly hoodblacks, but if Yolanda the Hamplanet gets mad at you paying with cash at a grocery store while her EBT card is broken, a .357 may be the correct answer. That 12-18" penetration in gel wouldnt be enough if the attacker is covered in 12-18" of adipose tissue
Hard cast 158gr SWC or 148gr WC is gonna penetrate a fatty plenty good enough.
A .38 wadcutter probably. But im really arguing against 9mm absolutists. 115 gr 9mm HPs may get stuck in a fatty titty. any screaming of "I caint breeve" could just be them exasperated from their own mass as the lungs are undamaged
9mm is a solid round. It's cheap due to economies of scale. There's literally nothing wrong with it. There's also nothing wrong with .38spl if you are opting for a revolver for whatever reason.
i agree, own both and like that painting.
Or if you like revolvers but also like cheaper ammo, get a revolver in 9mm.
>gets mad at you paying with cash at a grocery store while her EBT card is broken
Based and foodriot-pilled.
>gets mad at you buying cigarettes with money you worked for while she can't do that with foodstamps
Fixed for more likely scenario
Even more so because penetration in gel is quite a bit more than in an actual human.
1. The calibration bb penetrates like 3 inches
2. jelly doesn't have bones
>a scientifically designed tested medium
Gelatin can tell you that ammo X penetrates 15% more than ammo Y. It does not and was never intended to simulate what the ammo does to flesh. The standard of 12-18 inches in gelatin came from observing that ammo that was effective in real shootouts penetrates about that far in gelatin.
>a scientifically designed tested medium?
No. It only provides an analog on the density of human flesh, not the damage that the projectile does. Animal flesh is closer to human flesh than gel.
>a scientifically designed tested medium?
How is gel more scientific than using actual flesh to simulate flesh?
Gel is not a flesh simulator. All it is is a uniform medium for generating comparative data.
Exactly. All it does it measure how far a round penetrates, not the damage it does to flesh. Paul's meat targets are goofy, but tell you more about what bullets do to bodies than gel
Well to be pedantic dead tissue doesn't behave the same way as living tissue, so it's still not a perfect analog and there's something to be said for the consistency that gel testing provides. But as Paul Harrell said himself in one video, there's plenty of people doing jelly tests so we wouldn't gain much from him doing jelly tests in addition.
The meat target does offer more insight into hollow point expansion though. As HPs are much more likely to lose their jacket or not expand as well in the meat target as they do in gel. Again it's still not a fair analog to a living organism, but I'll just hollow point expansion and integrity from the meat target more seriously than that in jelly.
>dead tissue doesn't behave the same way as living tissue
True, but it's still better than gel. We just need someone with the balls to do tests on live pigs.
Do you really need balls to do that?
>trap wild hogs
>fill them with sedatives
>string them up
>shoot
It's an extremely ethical method of execution. The issue is money and time.
Interesting food for thought.
John Correia? Eat a salad next time fatty
Flesh undergoes many changes post mortem, significantly effecting mechanical properties in terms of strength and elasticity. As does the freezing and thawing process. Studies done by fackler back in the 90s(iirc) on pigs showed that an animal had to be shot within 15 minutes of death to accurately represent wound cavities on a live one. That's to say nothing of the fruit, if you don't understand why that's gonna exaggerate cavitation then you aren't even worth talking to.
"Meat targets" and other spastic fuddshit are horrible testing mediums.
Literally better than ballistic gelatin tests.
literally closer to shooting something that’s alive and made of flesh than gel is
eggheads are fbi don’t use because they are obsessed to the point of stupidity with repeatability
if you don’t trust the dead meat target, i encourage you to go handgun hunting, and you will find out that ballistics gel does not reflect what you see in the field, and a deer body is closer to a human body than gelatin
bodies aren’t repeatable
>dead flesh is perfectly analogous to living flesh
Frick off moron.
>soft gelatin which you can easily dig your finger into is analogous to living flesh
It's obviously not perfect, but it's essentially an improvised cadaver test, which may not tell you about stuff like bleeding, but it'll give you a rough idea on how projectiles may behave in similar flesh, as well as to what resistance bones put up for your given gun and load.
It's probably the best kind of test medium you can devise short of scoring a proper cadaver, or testing on a living target, both which present some not easily solved problems.
Bernhard Goetz is my hero
for me its the town of skidmore missouri
>All actual shots plus my draw time occurred easily within 1.6 seconds or less. This is not as difficult to do as some might think, and occasionally I give a description of the technique along with a re-enactment.
best post & /thread/ & /board tbrqphwydesu
nice ones anon
What's that on the left
A model 38 with some old Herrret's grips on it.
I saw a guy get killed with a single .38 lead roundnose to the belly in 2019. It works fine. I carry a .38 j frame
Good post
It's "weaker" than 9mm despite being bigger unless you get a +P loading.
>unless you get a +P loading.
Standard pressure 9mm still makes .38 +p look wimpy. .38 falls between .380 and 9mm and leans more towards the .380 side, especially in snubbies.
It's special
Frick ya mudda it's good.
twist rate 1:0.3
sectional density 9000
Do you happen to have the .17 Moon Orbital too? It was that tank shell necked down to a .22 or something.
It's fairly mundane honestly
> Mundane
That's what makes it perfect.
Sorry it's not exciting enough for you, turns out that just because something is not part of a new and exciting fad makes no difference irl.
If your carry gun is anything other than a .357 caliber variation then your other life choices are probably very questionable.
Sometimes simplicity is what makes a thing great. It works, and it's been working since 1898. +p will bump it up to 9mm levels while being at half pressure, and there's tons of modern hollowpoints that work because of advances in technology. I use Federal Punch 120 grain +p, I've seen tests, it penetrates just fine
Please tell me you don't store that gun in that foam case with the lid closed all the time. If you own an out of production blued revolver you should consider yourself a caretaker. I'm not saying not to use it as a tool because that's what it is just take as good care of it as you can. Have pity on some younggay you don't even know who is gonna want that piece after you're gone.
Please go buy this: https://www.amazon.com/Birchwood-Casey-1003530-Universal-Grease/dp/B003ITB8NS
Then cut up a t-shirt or use painter's rags and impregnate the cloth with the grease and wipe your blued guns down after handling.
She's my carry piece, a gun the police nicked off some guy, got it for cheap mostly because it wasn't taken care of the best. As for the young gay comment, in a way, that was me this year when I bought it. I intend on taking good care of her, she's my friend after all. Thanks for the tips by the way
You're welcome and checked.
Lol ok, dont get it but ok. But really I went for a revolver because it had been sitting in that case for a year, and I knew it was a Smith. Can't get much better than that, and I'm not buying some shit PSA dagger
muh .45 stoppinpowah 🙁
Just buy a 9mm, better in every way
Except aesthetics and soul.
I like you. You can come over to my house and frick my sister.
DO YOU SUCK DICKS?
Pretty good... IF I COULD FIND ANY
*blocks your path*
An unoccupied car does make some good cover, thanks for being in my way fren.
It's as good as 9mm vs windshields
I have shot a car quite a bit with .38, 9mm, .308, 5.56 and 12 gauge. Jacketed .38 and hollowpoints goes through windshields fine I have personally seen lead roundnose .38 NOT penetrate windshields. I wanted to see if the Dirty Harry line that he'd "seen .38s bounce off windshields" was true and it was if and only if I shot lead roundnose. Dont remember the grain. It was magtech brand iirc. Fun test in pic related you can actually see the shot that didnt penetrate the windshield
To be fair, I'm looking to penetrate a crackhead, not a car. The fact is the FBI and police used it for decades with great success, hollowpoints have only gotten better, ammo is common, recoil is soft, and reloading is a breeze. I'll be fine if a crackhead gets twitchy, he wont
>jacketed .38 and hollowpoints penetrated windhshields fine
>lead roundnose did not
I hope you arent carrying lead roundnose anon. Otherwise carry on, idk why you replied really other than that.
Does he see himself shooting a crackhead sitting in a car, or from inside his car? Seems if the latter he oughta just fricking floor it instead.
That's another point. I'm not the cops. If I'm in a car, I'm gonna be playing Gas Gas Gas as I get the frick out of the fire fight. If I'm getting into a prolonged engagement, something has gone terribly wrong, especially where I live, which is pretty peaceful all things considered. My Mod 36 38 special has more than enough put down to make the average thug, which I very much doubt is gonna be wearing a level III plate, regret fricking with me. It still has more power than 380 auto, and +p loads can be brought up to base 9mm power levels while retaining mild recoil; tldr, the ultimate balance
I meant run the crackhead over, but I guess just fleeing wouldn't need to be defended in a court of law. And yeah, I think .38 Special is a great cartridge for compact revolvers, decent power together with a gun which can't be limpwristed or pushed out of battery, in case it has to be shot really really close.
I'm carrying JHP, so I'm fine I guess. Point still remains. While that test is nice and fine, when am I shooting out a windshield in my car when I'm walking down the sidewalk late at night when some crackhead wants to get froggy?
Twice the size of 9mm with the same power. .38 Special? More like .38 Especially Obsolete.
Even if it were twice the size (it's not), it's a revolver cartridge so who cares?
tactical zoomers
It's a fine old bullet. Shoots everything from soft .380 special power loads up to 9mm+p+ equivalent loads with select +p ammo. The only thing with more diversity is a .357. and sometimes that's just not important, like with a small pocket revolver.
I don't think a 38 spl can safely go to 9mm+P territory.
AFAIK 38 +P+ = regular b***h 9 mill
>Remington FBI load enters the room
Yes, and? It's got one hell of a kill count
>60+ yr old loading of an unjacketed lead hollow point
>Put it in a shiny new box with HIGH TERMINAL PERFORMANCE and sell it for 80CPR to like it's a modern JHP
Fuyukai tbh
I carry handloads for SD use. Hard cast 158gr SWC for less than .30/rd. Double the holes. Double the leaks.
>Double the holes. Double the leaks.
>the bloods still in his chest so he won't be hypovolemic
https://www.buffalobore.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=108
474 ft lbs from a 4 inch barrel. It can, and does get as hot as your +p+ loadings.
BB is pretty good about being right on the money with their advertised velocities too whereas big box stores tend to run lower than expected.
Is it really a waste to buy a .357 revolver but carry .38 in it? I see people say that but I really like the heavier feel of .357s, especially when it's a 4inch barrel and not a 2inch snubby. I have a 3inch .38 I love but I've rented some bigger .357s and they feel great.
>Is it really a waste to buy a .357 revolver but carry .38 in it?
Only if you want a really lightweight gun. InB4 scandium morons.
Nah
Because if you change your mind and want to start carrying magnums you already have a gun for it
Of course not. If you have a gun that can fire two calibers you've opened your options massively with one purchase. .38spcl and .357 are fine calibers. It's not a waste to use .38 in a .357.
Snubby loaded with wadcutters is all you need
You buy them for your girlfriend because she can't handle 9mm.
The preferred caliber for shooting uppity spooks
It has the same performance as 9x19 but it's longer, used almost exclusively in revolvers, costs more than 9x19, and is less available than .357 mag.
There was a time when it was good choice, but that time has passed.
It's nice that it spans sub sonic to super spicy without having to get weird with the bullets
I am a revolver and lever gun enthusiast but I own multiple 9mm handguns for self defense. I enjoy the .38 special and .357 magnum very much but as far as the .38 special goes it's pretty well surpassed by 9mm in just about most measurements you could strive for. It's a wonder as is that the .38 special is still relevant. I love shooting my wheelguns and leverguns and .38 special through them all the same. The cool thing about .38 special to this day is that it's naturally subsonic so it's really quiet in a suppressed lever gun. Mine is basically inaudible.
Yeah 9mm is a pretty good round to fill the gap between .38 and .357. I have a convertable revolver that has both a .357 and a 9mm cylinder which I quite like. If I wanted a small revolver for pocket carry, I'd probably choose an LCR in 9mm.
The only gap between .38 and .357 is how far the bullet flies out the other side of the target after completely penetrating it.
No, .38 SPC suffers the same problem as .380 ACP in that a lot of HP ammo won't reliably expand, or not expand very much. Whereas modern 9mm will expand much more reliably even out of short barrels. Sure if you already had a revolver that could handle .38 +P that's probably be the better option, but if you're buying a revolver IMO you'd be better off getting 9mm if you're not sure you'll use .357.
Also penetration matters more than people think. Not every shot is a perfect frontal shot and bullets deflect off of bone and other material so may not be passing through the shortest distance from someone's chest to there back.
There's also the matter of just because the temporary wound cavity doesn't cause permanent tissue damage, doesn't mean it has zero effect on the target.
Expansion is a bonus not a requirement. Shot placement and penetration are all that matter.
It is fine but no longer the most economical choice. 9x19 shoots people just as dead but the ammo is cheaper and abundant.
.38 is great for reloading, the cases last dozens of reload cycles and the amount of loads is great. You can even load them with BP if you so wish.
cool, but what about .38 SUPER
How many John Lennons have been killed by 38 versus any other round
Lennon was done in with a .44 special.
Worked fine for law enforcement for what, 80 years? It's damned good.
>.72" expansion
>13.7" penetration in gelatin
it'll kill people for sure
Meanwhile my handloaded hard cast 158gr pills blew through 24+" of gel.
how much expansion?
I don't give a frick about expansion because it's unnecessary. Penetration and shot placement are all that matter.
source?
All of recorded history. Handgun terminal ballistics is literally settled science. The surface area you gain from expansion is not going to magically turn a bad hot into a good one. And expansion does limit penetration. If you know 100% your load penetrates adequately while also expanding then please feel free to use it. It's a bonus. I only care about knowing 100% my rounds penetration is not gimped in anyway and that I can put my shots rapidly and accurately into vital structures.
>The surface area you gain from expansion is not going to magically turn a bad hot into a good one.
ummmm no, but it can if your shot is off by a fraction of an inch. If you're going to shoot non expanding ammo, at least shoot .45 so at least you have a bigger boolet right off the bat, compared to an expanded 9mm.
Clear ballistics gelatin results are deeper than fbi-standard calibrated gelatin.
>4" barrel
The band is ok, the cartridge is nothing special
.38 special is great because it's easy to keep your brass and reload it. It's also easy to shoot when you use light target loads.
That too. Because of its extremely low pressure, you just keep reloading .38 until the brass splits in the reloader. It may be more expensive to get the brass, but reloading is a breeze, and you can use cast lead if u want
.32-20 was better.
If .32-20 is so good, why is there no 1911 in .32-20?
Ummmmm is there a 1911 in 38 special???????? Git destroyed libtard
it's good
It's a very weak, slow round, along the same line as .45 acp. The saami pressures for these rounds are in the 15000-21000 psi range, whereas nearly every other common round is around 35000 psi, and some much more. Basically, the volume of the cartridge isn't very well utilized. If you're just plinking, none of this matters. But if you are shooting with a purpose nearly any other cartridge can do it better, whatever your task.
I own a 357 mag but there isn't any point to shooting 38 spl for me since I hand load and can make my bullets do whatever I want them to.
It's good at frickin ya mudda
good for really small backup ccw weapons.
Womens gun. For concealed carry classes it's always the women with the .38 special.
I bought it for the memes and to piss you off
The wife thinks it's sexy though, so I got that going for me which is nice
>Wife thinks his BBR is the sexiest gun he owns
Anon, I...
>Double the holes. Double the leaks.
Not how a chest cavity works, an exit just means more of it might end up on the floor.
>an exit just means
That bullet touched everything it could conceivably touch.
Not a lot of major blood vessels in your back fat.
I'm a dick shooter.
You get more and more moronic with every post. The femoral and iliac are both easier to reach than thoracic vessels and ass cheeks don't exactly have any major blood vessels either.
>Inb4 muh pelvic girdle meme
Not how boney support in that area works, not that you'd know.
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=gE9qooFUqsk
jus like it, simple as
Eddie, is that you?
Jk that's actually a real clean setup especially with the wadcutters
>that's actually a real clean setup especially with the wadcutters
Thanks, thats what i carry in it
.38 snub with wadcutters has probably killed more bad guys and/or coons in the US than most other combos put together
Probably not, they kill each other more than anyone else, and wadcutters isn't exactly on the top of their list for ammo.
>179 Ruger P89s
>in 2014
Bullshit
The quoted statistic doesn't specify exact models, just brand and caliber, most likely they're the now more common Ruger pistols and what not.
I'm surprised how little glocks are in the list
That data is 8 years old now. It would be very different today. More dracos and AR pistols and shit for sure.
Nah, those are generally trophy guns, the guns in question may be different but for actual crime, criminals always favor a weapon which can be concealed on your person, ergo conventional handguns.
Yeah if I'm looking to rob a place, walking in with a ar, in Chicago no less, which will tip off the cops immediately, is kinda stupid. A revolver or handgun these gangbangers can hide is how robberies work
read somewhere that the 38 special started out as a black power round
that was 38 long colt, basically the parent cartridge of the 38 special.
The first year it was introduced it had a black powder load, hense the huge case. It was very quickly switched to smokeless
Rocked more bad guys than you will ever know
Military equipment and requirements change. Street thugs don't
9mm but chunky.
Faster when loaded with black powder.
Delusional fuddlore
It's good.
It's easy to find.
In a SHTF scenario, it would, therefore, be easy to find.
It can be fired from both wheel guns and carbines.
It's cheapish.
It's very low on recoil.
If you get a .357 platform, you can fire these too.
It's a classic.
>2. jelly doesn't have bones
Then what the frick have I been eating?
.38 is outdated to shit and is one of the few rounds available today that could fully be considered "obsolete". It offers zero benefit over almost any modern semi-auto handgun cartridge. That being said, a 120ish grain piece of copper and lead moving 800+ FPS is just as deadly now as it was 100 years ago. The capability to put holes in things will always be invaluable regardless of the quality or amount of holes.
Tl;dr- Old bullet shoot bad, but bad is still pretty good
Nah, it's a good revolver cartridge.
And revolvers are obsolete
They're only obsolete for emasculated homosexuals who don't spend their days sitting in darkened run down offices sipping straight whisky and chain smoking cigarettes as the next femme fatale pleads her fake sob story as she tries to play you for a sucker and get you to do all her dirty work for her. just like the last dame who walked through that door one hot Los Angeles day, as the sun beat down on all the other poor rubes just trying to make a living. and i don't know if it's that same sun or the girl that's making this office hotter than hell right now as i sit here listening to her repeating practiced lines with blinds across the windows and a pain behind the eyes.
You are as insufferable, possibly even more, as the moron who enters revolver threads just to shit on them.
lol salty gays mad that someone has a good time on the internet. You could worry more about what you enjoy and less about what others enjoy. Just a thought.
so true
Real men don't need to inconvenience and handicap themselves intentionally to try and convince everyone they're men
At least you're aware you need to put in the extra effort
Now post a Mad Men pic to show how not mad you are
Nah.
Yah. Theres a reason no one uses them seriously anymore. They're a novelty.
Show me a good and reliable .44 Magnum automatic which is readily available.
Show me a good and reliable automatic 24 pdr which is readily available. What? You can't? Wow, that means to me that cannons are still viable because I'm a moronic fricking idiot like you
If you're going to be a LARPer, you can just be a LARPer, just be a man about it and own it
>has never heard of handgun hunting
>has never heard of metallic silhouette target shooting
>has never heard of bear defense
Anon, it's ok to be gay, it's 2022.
>t. noguns
>A 1991 ram 3500 can tow 12,000lbs
>a 2022 ram 3500 can tow 37,000lbs with the perfect setup and a 5th wheel
>the trailer you need to tow weighs 4,000lbs
>truck A is considered obsolete despite exceeding the requirements to do the job by 3 fold because other options can do the same job with the same result but "better".
That sounds like a really good argument until you need to tow a 7 ton trailer.
You wont ever have to tow a 7 ton trailer for the purposes of the analogy. You're a bigger LARPer than revolver chads.
>n-no you dont get it, I'm gonna take on 17 Yakuza who attack me while I pick up a cheesesteak sandwich all with my handgun and two spare mags
You're a dumbass. A .38 will handle vast majority of civilian applications pertaining to daily carry self defence. And the ones it wont, you'll die anyway.
While 7 tons is a common gvwr for trailers to have, I almost never see them behind pickups. It's usually 10k trailers or 14k behind medium duty dump trucks hauling a bobcat to their next job.
Many people will carry a knife on their left side in case they get in a situation where their right hand is busy, and they need a weapon.
I think a 38 spl revolver is the ideal weapon for this use case, over a knife.
So overall, it’s good
cheap as frick and plenty powerful.
It's what I mainly reload for my GP100, but I sometimes go hot with .357. Pic related, I love it so much.
It's special, but like, special needs special.
A shush gun. This must be done quietly.
okay.
Or call an ambulance but not for me.
Kills thugs dead!
One hater on YT said Buffalo Bore 38+P jumps crimp in a snub. Trufax or bullshit?
Can't base shit on one report. Either get some and test it or get something else. All factory ammo is a crapshoot which is why I carry my own handloads.
That'd be the first time I heard it, maybe he got a bad batch or something? Nobody's perfect.