hoptob
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Doc540 wrote in 642 Club Part Deux thread:
I don’t have velocity data available for this round but here is a scan from contemporary reloading manual (Speer #5, 1961) showing what .38 special caliber loads USED TO BE like around the time Jack Ruby took his shot.
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I think we still use some of these loads. We just call them... 357 magnum.
Mike
It is a very interesting testimony because .38 special caliber cartridge of Remington-Peters manufacture, with 158-grain lead round nose bullet is the round which killed Lee Harvey Oswald.I was shooting up a hodge podge of old .38 ammo, and that round was one of a group of Remington-Peters rounds.
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They were factory loads and hotter'n shlt. I'd only fired about eight or nine rounds when that one split in the cylinder of the Model 36.
I don’t have velocity data available for this round but here is a scan from contemporary reloading manual (Speer #5, 1961) showing what .38 special caliber loads USED TO BE like around the time Jack Ruby took his shot.
click on the thumbnail to enlarge
I think we still use some of these loads. We just call them... 357 magnum.
Mike
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