S&W 637-2 Airweight
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Hellion
.38 special but can handle .38+P, had a couple of these years ago, great little gun, you won’t regret it
.38 S&W Special is like the .40S&W, S&W invented the cartridges, so they have there name sake
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Hellion
Somebody is feeling frisky.
Annihilator
Hellion
Yea, must have taken his Geritol early…..
OldGrunt
Professional
The 637 came in on consignment. I’ll probably offer $350 to see if they’ll bite.Well, if we are going to be frisky, I thought 40 S&W stood for short and weak.
mikep
Looks like a good price to me at least in my area. Almost the perfect carry gun. Humpbacks are just way cooler.
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Sld1959
Ronin
That is my wife's bedside gun. She loves it, nice little shooter. She picked it out and told what she wanted so I got the light and laser for it. Nce little package
Got ‘er twinWell, if we are going to be frisky, I thought 40 S&W stood for short and weak.
mikep
Looks like a good price to me at least in my area. Almost the perfect carry gun. Humpbacks are just way cooler.
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Sld1959
Ronin
38 SW special is the little brother/older brother the .357 magnum was created from. Revolvers marked .357 magnum can fire both cartridges but those marked .38 special cannot chamber .357 magnums.
bc22wm
Professional
Pocket carried revolvers for years. On the draw, fingers around the grip, thumb on the hammer as if to Kock it. Thumb acts as a shroud to keep the hammer from snagging, as an added bonus your hand is flat/thinner profile than rounded like a fist. Once your hand clears the pocket drop the thumb like sweeping off a safety. I wear my snub nose on my hip now and truth be told I carry the 638 instead of a M60 for weight, and I'm, ah, hefty, full figured, okay fat, and I got tired of the hammer chewing a hole in my side, plus Humpbacks .....
A lot of folks in ICORE and USPSA revokver division run 38 S&W in their 627 Wheelguns in moon clips because it is significantly shorter than 38 Special.
In reality it doesn’t apply to 99.9% of 38/357 users because 1 it’s harder to obtain and 2 2 because of 1 unless you are a reloaded being harder to obtain means $$$ if you find loaded ammo by the coulle companies still making it.
The other thing in 38 J frames the majority of the 125 and 158 HP self defense ammo won’t get the speed to reliably expand. The 2 exceptions (as in they work sometimes compared to most don’t at all) is the 135 ahold Dot and the 125 Remington Golden Saber but those are plus P and the nice isn’t worth the squeeze to most.
So with J frames in 38 the best round with a proven record is 38 Spexial target full wadcutter. It doesn’t need speed it cuts a full diameter hole in the sternum of bone and gets 15” that gets to the goods. It’s an old school load that several LEOs in my agency as well as everywhere used to dump felons. And it usually hits to the sights of J frames
Chuck Haggard and others have some great gel tests in it and shot placement and penetration and anyone from American Fighting Revolver will tell you the same from there experience of seeing actual shootings in theor agencies.
Good luck!
In reality it doesn’t apply to 99.9% of 38/357 users because 1 it’s harder to obtain and 2 2 because of 1 unless you are a reloaded being harder to obtain means $$$ if you find loaded ammo by the coulle companies still making it.
The other thing in 38 J frames the majority of the 125 and 158 HP self defense ammo won’t get the speed to reliably expand. The 2 exceptions (as in they work sometimes compared to most don’t at all) is the 135 ahold Dot and the 125 Remington Golden Saber but those are plus P and the nice isn’t worth the squeeze to most.
So with J frames in 38 the best round with a proven record is 38 Spexial target full wadcutter. It doesn’t need speed it cuts a full diameter hole in the sternum of bone and gets 15” that gets to the goods. It’s an old school load that several LEOs in my agency as well as everywhere used to dump felons. And it usually hits to the sights of J frames
Chuck Haggard and others have some great gel tests in it and shot placement and penetration and anyone from American Fighting Revolver will tell you the same from there experience of seeing actual shootings in theor agencies.
Good luck!
thanks for the info. i haven't dabbled in revolvers yet so the more i know the better off i am.
rcurtner
Hellcat
38 Special. I routinely carry mine in an ankle holster. It is a handful with 38 Special+P don't shoot it much it is my EDC back-up revolver.
rcurtner
Hellcat
My 637 with speed loader Underwood 100Grain 38 Spl +P rounds.
I carried a Model 38, Airweight humpback. In L.A., any firearm carried on-duty had to be castrated to DAO and ammo was restrained cited to 158 or 200 grain bullets. I preferred the latter, with Remington being my first choice. The Remington bullet was long, based on the .38-200 bullet used by the Brit’s in their Webley. Winchester's bullet was stouter, with a flat nose. These loads were not fast, but I thought they would work better. This was all before HP and SP ammo came onto the scene.