38 Super for EDC

[Dolomite_supafly]

I have a little over $600 in my Metro Arms, $475 purchase price and replacement of all the MIM internals, barrel bushing and trigger. I would put it against any sub $1,000 factory gun as far as accuracy and reliability goes. I have well over 1,000 trouble free rounds through it. It is more accurate than the Colt I recently sold. New it had a better frame to slide fit than most brand names you could buy 20 years ago.

My only complaint about the MA is the bluing is a bit thin. To fix this I media blasted it and blued it. I seems less prone to the shiny spots it normally get.

The budget guns are no longer guns to be avoided. It allows people to own and shoot decent quality guns that couldn't before. It also allows people to modify or alter their guns without fear of ruining the value of an rare or expensive guns.

Dolomite

[Guest 10mm4me]

Shoots flatter than what?

Dolomite

Uh, anything with a slower muzzle velocity. Velocity determines trajectory i.e. why a 12ga slug drops a little bit quicker than say a .308

[Guest 10mm4me]

Don't get a Taurus .38 super. No matter how many people try to convince you otherwise. They are absolute pieces of **** if you catch my drift. They may work for 500 rds, 1,000rds, even 5,000rds but probably not much more. Any gun that cannot handle 20,000 rds without normal, routine maintenace (recoil spring, trigger return spring, and other drop in parts) ain't worth having at all. If their MIM method is so great and just as good, since it's cheaper, why don't the good manufacturers use it and save a ton of money? I wonder, cause it ain't.

[Dolomite_supafly]

Don't get a Taurus .38 super. No matter how many people try to convince you otherwise. They are absolute pieces of **** if you catch my drift. They may work for 500 rds, 1,000rds, even 5,000rds but probably not much more. Any gun that cannot handle 20,000 rds without normal, routine maintenace (recoil spring, trigger return spring, and other drop in parts) ain't worth having at all. If their MIM method is so great and just as good, since it's cheaper, why don't the good manufacturers use it and save a ton of money? I wonder, cause it ain't.

Every brand name maker uses MIM now as well as the budget guns. Colt, Kimber, Springfield, STI, Para and several others have gone to MIM. It is a sign of the times and because it is new it must be bad. Now granted I replaced all the MIM parts in my personal gun but that wasn't because they were bad.

I am not a Taurus fan boy but there are enough good ones out there that your experience is not the norm.

Dolomite

[Ebow1]

Until I have a bad experience with a Taurus I will keep praising them. Now I will readily admit that all the stuff they're doing with various models of The Judge is just getting ridiculous. I mean I saw one at GnL the other day with the 3 inch chamber and a freakin' rail on the barrel. Yeah, good luck finding a holster for that.

[Guest BungieCord]

If I were to use a .38 Super in self defense, I'd be worried it might flummox the DA trying to find the right box to check.

The .38 super is not anymore accurate than any other round. It has a high velocity, and shoots flatter, but don't confuse that with accuracy. With a high quality gun, accuracy is completely dependent on the shooter.

Thank you for clarifying that. All I know is that for some reason or other 38 super was considered a round of choice for competition shooting once upon a time.

The .38 Super once got big in IPSC because there was a scoring advantage if your cartridge ranked as a "major" power factor. You couldn't drive a 9mm fast enough to get it out of the "minor" power factor classification but you could a .38 Super. But the Super is known for being temperamental when loaded to those pressure levels. No matter though, because the rules were changed a few years back so the 9mm now can make major PF.

[Guest 85rx-7gsl-se]

Any thoughts on the Rock Island Armory 1911s in 38 Super.