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yep, thanks for the link

Nice piece Clark, that Super and a lower added to that 11.5" upper you have all tucked under a long coat would have a man WELL armed.

haha...very true!

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=469219802

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=470654018

Usually there are 3-6 new ones on GunBroker all the time...now only these two lightly used ones. Gotta feeling that the supply at the wholesale level has run out...

safariman....the Super with real Super loads like from CorBon, Buffalo Bore and Georgia Arms is just short of the 125 grain .357 Magnum. A 115 JHP will run 1450 fps and a 125 1350. Loads from Winchester, Remington, Federal and Aguila are all watered down in the 1200s.

From the late great Steven Camp....

http://www.hipowersandhandguns.com/Corbon%2038%20Super%20Ammo%20Tests.htm

Lots of info here:

http://www.38super.net/

Bob

Cheapest entry fee:

https://us.armscor.com/products/gi-standard-fs-38-super-1

I bought a Rock Island Standard FS, with comabat sights, full length rod guide, and ambi safety, in 9mm, and my Colt 38 Super and 9x23 barrels fit and functioned w/o a hitch on that 9mm frame.

I've since sold the original Colt w/ that 9x23 barrel, but kept the Super barrel. I worked with HS-6 and 124 Remingtons that I went to 1400, but came back down and run them at 1300 even.

Thanks Bob.

Any issues with the Rock Island?

Not on my end. With any of the 3 barrels, I never had a FTF.

Google the reviews on RIA...pretty solid gun across the board.

I was going to drop the coin on another in 45, but scored a Para 14-45 at a recent gun show instead.

You are welcome...

That first gun up there on GB sold for $870.00. I have not seen a used one sell for under $950 and that was a BuyNow...

The other gun has been on there for a while...a long while.

Bob

This is great info/news here for me. I really like my RIA Tac10 1911 10mm, and have decided that my next handgun purchase (Quite a ways down the road, unfortunately) is likely to be their 17 round 22TCM/9mm combo pistol. My plan then is to add barrels a barrel in 38 Super. Then obtain uppers or barrels for my single stack 10mm in 22LR and 45ACP. I don't think that there are magazines to make 10mm, 22LR or 45ACP run in that widebody 22TCM pistol or I would just get all of the barrel/spring sets for the one frame. I might do that (just get the other barrels fitted to it) anyway with this single, railed dustcover 10mm frame.

That combo set up all packaged into a single hard case with cutouts for the other barrel/spring combo's would make one heck of a useful bug out or other crisis piece. Whatever ammo one could find, one could run with a simple quick changeout. That 22TCM is a very interesting round to me.

Bob, lots of great reading and info there, THANKS! Yep, going to have to have to add the 38 Super to my mix one of these days.

Good grief.

22TCM doesn't exactly grow on trees. Neither does 10mm. "Finding" that ammo just doesn't happen. You won't be carrying a hard case with friggin' gadgets, either, if you have to "bug out". You'll be carrying as little as possible, and what you carry has to work as is and to as much double/triple duty as possible. The Serbian lessons on this are relevant and stark.

For the SHTF piece, a modified cylinder GP100 .357 that will then take .357s, .38 Specials, .38 Colts, 9x23, 9x21, .38Super, and .380 is a much more realistic BUG.

But, please don't let reality get in the way of fantasy.

I very well realize that 22TCM and 10mm ammo are relatively scarce, even in the best of times. Which is exactly why I am thinking that having extra uppers or fitted barrels in 9mm, 22LR, 45 ACP would be important additions.

BACK on topic.... being something of a speed freak regarding guns and velocity, I am surprised that I have not yet owned a 38 Super. That will hopefully be rectified in the not too distant future.

yeah...must have been karma...:)

IIRC, which is open to question, there was a used one at Bud's that went for 907 or thereabouts.

Mark...a single stack .22 TCM conversion is coming this summer so if one did it right one can have one frame, four slides slides and up to about 14 calibers...


Bob

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A better idea, yet!

To whom would you turn to get barrels fitted properly in 9mm, 38 Super and 45ACP? Add a 22LR conversion kit and voila' there be a pretty universal, ammo eatin, critter-killin machine. I wonder if barrels in 380ACP and or 9x18 MAK could be made to run OK in a 1911 ful sized frame, just for the sake of ammo availability in harder times. One Could even go 45 Super or similar in the ACP set up since I will already have the extra power, stiff spring for my 10mm. The slide on my 10mm definately requires big hands and a strong grip to rack it and use it.

This could get to be a really fun and addicting hobby here....

First you need a base gun preferably in 9mm/Super or 10mm/.40 S&W because of the location of the ejector. Then slides in the base calibers you don't have...in your case Super and .45. Then you start adding barrels. As to who, just ask around to see if there is a good 1911 smith in your area...much better and probably cheaper than sending it off some where especially if the project is going to be done a little at a time.

From what I have read there is a way to modify either the .45 slide or the 10mm and Super slides so that the ejector doesn't have to be switched out when going to the .45. I had a Combat Commander at one point that had two slides that would shoot 9mm/Super and .45 ACP without changing the ejector on the frame.

You may be able to get most of the parts for your gun from RIA since you are starting with one for a base gun. And as you said, add a .22 Conversion and you are all set. As to .380 I am not sure if the magazines for 9mm will handle the feeding of .380....

Possible calibers:
.22 LR

.22 TCM
.30 Luger
7.62x25mm (rounds must be slightly shortened to fit into the mag)
9mm
9x21
9x23 Largo
9x23 Winchester
.38 Super

.40 S&W
10mm
.400 CorBon
.40 Super
.357 SIG (unsolved as of yet feeding problems)

.45 ACP
.45 Super
.460 Roland
.45 Detonics Magnum


...just takes money....

Bob