Originally Posted by shrapnel
Originally Posted by Marc
I think the lower price is just because the 38-56 doesn't have the romance of the other cartridges it was chambered in. They are heavy!


The 38-56 came out in 1887, answering a question that was never asked. Not an improvement on anything, but much as the Short Magnums of today, a way to produce another caliber to sell more guns.



I got to laugh with you on that one!

For about 35 years the Big W brought out a .38 and .40 caliber to go along with each new .44/.45 case that they introduced, yet the performance of each load was so similar in each series that you wondered why they went to all the bother.