The military has some unusual .38 Special. .38 Special Ball has a 125-grain LRN bullet loaded to 725 fps with 13,000 CUP (they say "psi" but it was measured in a copper crusher, so it is what SAAMI calls CUP). I believe it is the one the Airforce got for their early S&W aluminum frame revolvers. Then there is .38 Special M41 with a 130-grain LRN loaded to 16,000 CUP and 950 fps. The wadcutter is the usual 148 grain swaged lead hollow base bullet loaded to 16,000 psi and 800 fps.
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