Thread 64165431

>.38 s&w
Whats the point? Seems like 20 years later when .38 special came out it wouldnt have a place anymore really, but somehow its kept kicking for more than another century somehow

guns chambered for it sill exist, therefor there is enough demand to make producing it profitable

>irrelevant question
>lust inducing pic

Weak men and weak wrists that can't handle a magnum

>>64165446
He's talking about it being used in WW2.
>>64165431 (OP)
Webleys are trash that can't handle pressure reliably on steam powered metallurgy. It was also a round they already had experience with so you got sorted of a 30-06 situation but for revolvers which really didn't matter anyway.

>>64165459
ai has gone too far

>>64165431 (OP)
Some of it would have been inertia, but I do agree that it feels weird that it stuck around for such a long time afterwards, when .38 Special really is just way better.

>>64165465
Did not yet exist.

>>64165476
Break-opens died for a reason
Webleys are hella sexy though, fite me

>>64165431 (OP)
why is the wall behind her head warped?

>>64167195
it was me
i made her face smaller

>>64167195
Probably because the post-processing software of the camera failed at recognize the perspective of the wall vs her. Smartphone cameras are so bad that all the noise, lens distortion, perspective distortion, bad linearity must be corrected by software, picrel.
She has other pics from different angle and the background looks ok.

>>64165431 (OP)
people still have old guns anon
theyre not biodegradeable

>>64165431 (OP)
It's still in service in places like India who have issued Webleys even now.

>>64165431 (OP)
the pic that broke /int/

>>64165431 (OP)
It's cheap, it hits hard, there are dozens of loads & dozens of guns for it (if not hundreds), it's compatible with .357, wheelguns are not obsolete, tube-fed carbines and semi-autos maximize its potential, handloaders can minmax the fuck out of it for their particular use case and exact weapon. There is no other comparable round, except .357. You've already lost. Give up while you're still only behind.

My biggest complaint is that .38/.357 is so popular that it pushed out the only superior round, .41.

>>64165431 (OP)
>Shorter case
>Shorter cylinder
>Smaller OAL revolver
>Made of pot metal by bicycle gun companies to arm men for $3.50

Think of it like .380 before the ultra compact revolution made them good. Between 1940 and like 2015 almost every .380 was a direct blowback ring of fire ghettoblaster. First Spanish imports then you have the GCA that brought you lorcin and similar companies, evolving into your kel tec and Taurus, then bill Ruger screeches down in hell as his company does the incredibly based thing of making a .380 that isn't a piece of shit and it's suddenly off to the races for real gun companies to make pocket pistols.

.38special ironically gets down loaded to .38s&w levels for lighter recoil and women in a couple of commercially available defensive loads.

>>64167804
History to complete the .380 parallel, .38s&w is a cartridge from the 1870's that survived into the 1960's. Wikipedia might have you believe .38s&w is some underpowered full frame revolver cartridge but for every model 10 6" 6 shot revolver made by Smith and Wesson there was a thousand forehand arms, iver johnsson, etc. 5 shot pocket pistols actually sold in the caliber. It was the .380 of the 1900s like .380 is the .380 of the 2000s