I won't be one to tell you that voere. I never set out to consider the .38 Special a favorite handgun cartridge, always thinking of myself as more of a .44 Special/.45 ACP kind of guy. Still, it's the .38 Special that sees most use here. Shot a .38 Special revolver for the first time in summer of 1968 when I was eleven. I've been joined-at-the-hip with the .38 Special since I got my first handgun when I was 18. As a field cartridge it's never let me down on anything large or small
with good hits. It must be pointed out that a nuclear powered Magnum will be wholly inadequate with poor hits.
More .38 Special guns live here than handguns in any other chambering.
That nickel plated one you're showing us dates to the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. The "fishhook" hammer spur, known as Smith & Wesson's "Speed Hammer" is evidence of its age as is the cylinder stop screw above the front of the trigger guard.
Here's a scroungy blued version of the same revolver. This one dates to 1951. A bank loan customer of mine wanted to get it out of the house and intended to give it to me. To keep things above board and on the up and up (RICO act you understand) I traded him two concrete turtle yard ornaments I especially bought for him as he said he wanted them for his new swimming pool for which I had provided him a loan to build.
I'm guessing it was a lawman's long time companion from the holster wear patterns.
Mrs. noelekal particularly likes the way it handles and it comes out of the safe when I go out of town.
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