Back in early June of this year, I bought my first 1911 in 9mm. It is a Kimber Stainless LW(light weight). I have enjoyed many 1911’s in .45 ACP over the years, but it was really nice to shoot a gun with significantly less recoil and the same accuracy as my other 1911‘s in .45 ACP.

After a while, I started toying with the idea of getting a .38 Super barrel for it. As most .38 Super barrels are not cheap, I was extremely lucky to find a SigSauer .38 Super barrel for so little $$ that I would have been a fool NOT to buy it, so I did. I also bought two .38 Super magazines, 200 pieces of brass, and a heaver(14lb)recoil spring. I already had 1500 124gr bullets for the 9mm and 9mm dies can be used to load .38 Super. I lucked out in that the barrel bushing fit the new barrel better than it fit the 9mm barrel.

I took the new setup to the range last week just to do a simple function test to see if any fitting was needed and after about 50 rounds I was satisfied that all was good as is. I went back this week to do some accuracy testing and I an very pleased with the results.

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Top: Xtreme 124gr plated FP 4.5gr American Select
Next: Xtreme 124gr FMJ 5gr W231
Next: Xtreme 124gr FMJ 4.7gr W231
Bottom: Xtreme 124gr plated FP 4.8gr W231
All were shot at 10 yards, 19 rounds

Garry

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