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PISTOL CARTRIDGES 
A FEW SUGGESTIONS THAT THE 
EXPERT WILL READ WITH INTEREST 
By W. S. Davenport. 
T HE new dense pistol powders take up 
so little space that the powder in the 
heaviest .38 pistol cartridge, the S 
and W Special, can be put into the shell 
of the short .38 and there is plenty of air 
space left after seating the long Special 
bullet. The short shell is %-inch, the Spe¬ 
cial shell is 1 i^-inch, the long Colt is 1- 
inch. The larger revolvers are chambered 
for the 1 14-inch shell. This shell has a 
quarter of an inch of powder in the bot¬ 
tom; the rest of its length is wasted. The 
bullet, which might get a good start in a 
gas-tight chamber, no sooner starts than 
the gases escape from the end of the cyl¬ 
inder. The .38 long Colt has a shorter 
shell and a bullet the same size as the in¬ 
side of the shell, so the bullet has to have 
a hollow base to upset it. The third cart¬ 
ridge used in the heavy revolvers is the 
.38 short, outside lubrication. This bullet 
will not upset with a light charge of dense 
powder and has still farther to travel in 
the large chamber, so it is made larger to fit 
the chamber. This extra diametar is sized 
off when the'bullet reaches the end of the 
shell chamber. The bullet cannot be 
crimped when reloading the cartridge and 
therefore has too little resistance to be re¬ 
loaded with dense powder. There is dan¬ 
ger too of the bullet working loose from re¬ 
coil. 
Not one of these three cartridges is real¬ 
ly satisfactory. The light .38 revolvers are 
chambered for the %-inch shell of the 
standard S W and Colt Police cartridges. 
These cartridges do not work well in the 
heavy revolvers and the light pistols will 
not shoot any of the other three. 
Since dense powders have come to stay 
the long shell has become obsolete. It is 
bulky and wastes space in the cylinder and 
spoils the cylinder for the proper short cart¬ 
ridge. There is so little difference in the 
length of bullets and the depth of powder 
that a single %-inch shell is enough for 
both long and short loads. If all .38 pistols 
were chambered for this shell one reload¬ 
ing tool with adjustable chambers would 
reload any .38, including all target bullets; 
hollow base and large outside lubricated 
bullets would be unnecessary, and the long 
cylinders would be really useful in giving 
the bullet a good start. Only one new 
cartridge would be necessary, a 150-160 
grain bullet with 3 to 3V2 grains of powder 
in the %-inch shell. The S W standard 
.38 would be the short cartridge and deal¬ 
ers eventually would stock only these two 
cartridges. 
If we cannot have all .38 pistols cham¬ 
bered alike the .38 long Colt bullet can prob¬ 
ably be seated and crimped into the %-inch 
shell with the No. 1 Ideal Reloading Tool. 
If so this cartridge could be used in both 
revolvers. It weighs the same as the 
S W standard and will upset in the long 
chambers of the heavy revolvers. It could 
be used instead of four of the five cart¬ 
ridges now made, the S W standard, Colt 
Police, short and long Colt. 
Best Caliber Rifle for Big Game. 
What caliber rifle do you consider best 
for deer and is the .44 caliber rifle, model 
1873, suitable for that purpose? 
S. C. I., Jefferson, Wis. 
Answer: The .44 caliber rifle in years 
past has given good service as a deer gun 
and is still used for that purpose at short 
ranges. It is accurate and effective. If 
buying a new gun we recommend a 3°"30 or 
some one of the later weapons with higher 
velocity and flatter trajectory. 
Be Careful in Revolver Experiments. 
I have been experimenting with a six 
inch barrel 32-20 revolver shooting black 
powder factory loaded cartridges. It shoots 
The Correct Position. 
accurately, but with smokeless powder— 
also factory loaded shells—the bullets land 
all over the target. 
H. W. N., Memphis, Tenn. 
Answer: Be careful in experimenting 
with smokeless powder cartridges in re¬ 
volvers that were not built with the use 
of that ammunition in view. Your revol¬ 
ver is undoubtedly one of the older models 
that was bored only for black powder. In 
weapons of this class the bore of the bar¬ 
rel is somewhat larger than the bullets. 
The later have hollow bases in which black 
powder expands sufficiently to fill the 
grooves of the rifling, thereby imparting 
the proper revolving motion to the bullet 
and retaining the gases, thereby developing 
their efficiency. Smokeless powder will not 
expand a hollow based small diametered 
bullet, consequently they do not take the 
rifling and the gases escape around the base 
so that accurate shooting is out of the ques- 
