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Is your Astra 400 marked like this on the barrel?
This means your Astra is chambered for both 9mm Largo and .38 ACP.
It is important to not get .38 ACP and .38 Super confused here.
If you handload, .38 Super brass is readily available... But keep those rounds segregated!
Though everyone is out of stock, .38 ACP is cheaper than 9mm Largo at places that still list them.
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This is one thing I do not like about firearms in general---the unnecessary multiplicity of calibers, particularly calibers with very similar names. I once almost bought a big box of 9mm Largo at Jacobson's, thinking it was 9mm Parabellum. Jacobson stopped me---he knew I didn't have anything that could shoot it.
ReplyDeleteThe variety delights me!
DeleteUnnecessary? Did you really just try to say that?
Sir, the semi-rim on this round is absolutely necessary and CLEARLY superior to both the rimmed and rimless cartridges that precede it.
Once you start digging into the histories of the guns, the reasons for the proliferation of cartridges gets clearer. Everyone was looking to get whatever advantage they could over their expected opponents and those advantages are often found in half millimeter increments.
Then you start to see that because it's a human holding and firing the thing, there's some maximums you can't exceed and a sweet spot where things get similar. Sometimes so similar they will interchange... sometimes disastrously so.
Plus there's several rounds that are dimensionally different to prevent interchange for safety reasons.
Then we have the, "once they have a rifle in .30-06 which will outlive their great-grand kids, how do we get them to buy another rifle?" rounds. Jeff Cooper railed on and on about the NEW IMPROVED cartridges which precisely duplicated an existing round. But many of these rounds were chasing real improvements. Lighter, flatter shooting, harder hitting.
And then... If we make it smaller caliber, shorter cased, use a lighter bullet with a smaller charge... Except for all that expensive tooling we can't afford to replace so pick 2. That's why neither 7.92x33 Kurtz or 7.62x39 are 7mm. That's why .30-06 is .30 and not 7mm (plus "not invented here"). That's why 8x50mmR Lebel is ridiculously tapered.
This stuff is FUN! and I love it.
I could use some 9mm Largo. I have a Star that uses it. And I bought a fair amount of it from SARCO when I bought said Star, but I've since used a lot of that up. However, it isn't necessarily a crisis because I believe that Starline makes new empty brass that is even properly head stamped, albeit probably not cheap and likely during these times of limited availability hard to find. And then there is the issue of being able to find primers... I have been able to find powder, albeit not always the normal go-to ones, but ones that will work at least. I also invested in bullet casting gear including a mold suitable for 9x19, 9mm Largo and a number of others of same diameter.
ReplyDeleteI just checked. Starline makes it... but like so many things these days it is backordered. Not stupidly expensive though if/when it is ever in stock again.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.starlinebrass.com/9mm-largo-brass
Maybe by the time it is available primers will be too. Maybe not as long as Biden (or some other Maoist/Stalinist) is in charge...