Colt Combat Commander .38 Super - Killer Deal
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HayesGreener
Ronin
Cool! Bob Lee Swagger's pistol of choice!
Your a fan? Of which? The pistol or the books? Both? Me too.
It is a great deal... It appears as if the 38 Super is making a little comeback in very recent time.
PieterCoetzee
Professional
38 Super is/was very popular south of the border, in places where you couldnt own "military cartridges" (hence the 7mm-08); but I suppose with the rise of the cartels they dont care about that law either.
Here I think about it like 9mm magnum
In the old Dick Tracy comics, Dick said it was a great cartridge because it would crack an engine block
Here I think about it like 9mm magnum
In the old Dick Tracy comics, Dick said it was a great cartridge because it would crack an engine block
Well, we all know that the "wrist radio" (or whatever Mr. Tracey called it) eventually made it. So Detective Tracey might be right about the 38 Super's capability....
HayesGreener
Ronin
I Am a fan of all the Stephen Hunter books. I likevthe pistol but don't have one
I live in / near a certain south central Texas city that has a very high percentage of residents of Mexican heritage. Just two weeks ago a local gunshop owner who has two locations, one on the north side of town, the other on the south side, told me that he can hardly sell a 38 Super out of his north location, but that they sell like hotcakes out of their south side location.
Yep. Do you know of / read Jack Carr's Terminal List series of books?
I have ONE 38 Super.... It's a Dan Wesson with a little fancy engraving. But that don't keep me from shooting it. I love that thing and love to shoot it. I've been an interested fan of the 38 Super ever since learning about it from the '60s gun rags, particularly Jeff Cooper's writing in Guns&Ammo. But I was middle aged before I ever personally saw one "in the wild". They just weren't (and still are not) very common.
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Retired Bum
Custom
Had a fellow competitor in the 70s, shot a 38 super. Was neither a reloader or purchaser of ammunition. He worked for US Customs and would happily save the time and money the government would spend to destroy all ammunition in evidence, from the dope runners. Shot a Colt government model very well. And every round was courtesy of confiscated ammunition of the cartels.
ChanceMcCall
Custom
I thought that the Mexican Government had pretty much made guns illegal and that only one gun store (in Mexico City) was still in business legally. Am I wrong?
HayesGreener
Ronin
Have read all of Carr's books,as well
Yes. Jack's story lines are very good, in my opinion. And his writing is improving with each and every book. My copy of The Fourth Option should hit the doorstep tomorrow before dusk.You are correct according to what I've read / seen / heard on the interwebs. Down there, any preceding laws banning the ownership of firearms chambered for a "military" cartridge is a moot point for the law abiding (and I'm certain there are far more of 'em than we give credit for), but it has not always been that way.
Now THAT is "creative use" of confiscated property...
Retired Bum
Custom
When he said what the government was spending to get rid of the ammunition and guns, I was much younger then, and thought 'such a waste'...
Biggfoot44
Custom
The Old ( as in age ) Bob Lee of the most recent books .
Young and middle aged Bob Lee favored .45acp in his 1911 's .
Hunter ages his characters pretty closely for the years the books are set . Bob Lee's age was fixed by his Millitary service , being a senior NCO in 1966 .
Even more specifically, by his birth being a plot element of Hot Springs ( featuring his father Earl ) happening in 1947 . That would be a little continuity fuzzy to make Earl a 20 y.o. Gunners Sgt in his own timeline .
But not picking on Hunter , he's still much more timeline correct than most authors of continuing series characters. Most authors that do age their characters, do so at 1/2 to 1/3 the real passage of time .
But still, the Bob Lee character didn't switch from .45 to .38 Super , and .308 to 6.5 Creed until well into his 70's .
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Within the Hunter Universe , the big gap l want to see filled , is the middle years of Carl Henderson. In Dirty White Boys set in early '90s he was drizzled over the hill OSBI LT alluding to his long history of gunfights . In Hot Springs set in 1947 training under Earl he was young rookie . There's got to be a whole series worth covering his interviening exploits .