The 38Super was designed to offer a "light" .357mag load in a semi auto handgun.
Why not ? Since the 38 Super is to the 9MMP as the .357 is to the 38 Special?
Just involve lengthening the chambers, seems the semi-rimmed case would be easier to extract.
well, I'm not so sure. I have had a .38 Super since the seventies and have observed that despite a small ledge in the barrel hood, the extractor also can be in contact with the semi-rim in some guns. If you have a .38 Super auto, drop a round in the unmounted barrel and then wiggle it around. Oft-times (or at least in my Colt's original barrel), you can get the round to over-ride the rim and drop further into the barrel until the mouth contacts the end of the chamber and stops. However, that is misleading inasmuch as when the barrel is mounted in the gun, the extractor keeps the round from overriding the semi-rim cut in the barrel hood...there is just not enough clearance.There would be no chambering problems, as the Super is semi-rimmed. It originally seated on the rim.
Except maybe controllability in rapid fire or quick follow-up shots?I have both, and the 38Super is second fiddle to the .357max for anything you can think of in a revolver.
The Super can probably be safely shot in a .357 mag handgun, if it doesn't have tight chambers.
Case drawings say the Super is .384" at the mouth and the .357 is .379".
That's 0.005" larger and the super case gets wider at the head but tolerances being what they are some Super will fit in some .357 chambers. Also possible some Super ammo won't go all the way into some .357 chambers.
they have been made, so its possible, but absent one having a stockpile of .38 super ammo, and a burning desire to shoot it through a revolver, I don't see any point to a .38 Super revolver.
Why not a 38 Super revolver?
That would be a good question for Jerry Micklich.Nothing to gain.
And? The 9x19mm and .38 Special are poor sisters next to a .357 Magnum too and it doesn't stop people from buying revolvers in those cartridges.Because no .38 Super can shoot anything close to the 180 grain .357 Buffalo Bore, that's why.
The rim isn't very big and I'm not sure you could rely on it to extract reliably in a double action revolver.
S&W also made a more conventional looking L frame .38 Super revolver. (Also a .40.)
They didn't last long or sell many. Hmm.
I do recall seeing the .38 Super revolvers advertised but never saw one in person. It does make far more sense that they would use moon clips.The S&W .38 Super revolvers I saw used full moon clips.
Now if you are talking about cramming Supers into a Special or Magnum, operation can get spotty.
There is nothing mechanically wrong with the setup, just that it did not sell.
Not as powerful as .357, not as cheap as 9mm.