The Police Positive is sort of a B-cup D-frame -- in .38 Colt New Police, equal to .38 S & W. There's no real difference, but originally there was an up-front variance. Colt got caught with its pants down in the revolver ammo wars of a century ago, so it stole the .38 Short Wimp. It gave up when no one was fooled by the cosmetic difference, a flat bullet rather than the sensuously curved Smith and Wesson nose.
There's a small stash of .38 SW here, but I'll probably want to shoot more than that. I can reload with the .38 Special dies (albeit possibly with some crimping challenges). The .357* cast bullets will work well enough, and in extremis for brass I can trim .38 Special cases to fit. (Probably, anyway. I haven't looked into the rim-thickness question yet.)
The Hi-Standard Sentinel is one of those comfortable mid-grade guns that just "is" -- not special, no particular history or other distinction, but a kick to shoot. We pulled onto K's personal air strip on the way home and ran a few cylinders offhand just for the pleasure of listening to the noise and watching dirt fly around the only handy target, a corn husk 20 - 25 feet off. I nailed it a time or two double action and figure I scattered the rest over a dinner plate area. A big dinner plate.
But Jim, you damned fool, you already got enough guns and, besides, you ain't made of money.
Quite true, but let me explain it this way: "Bugger off."
Alternatively, take the $xxx Federal Reserve Cartoon price and calculate how few zillionths of a nanosecond it will take Ben to create xxx new ones out of thin air. He can't make Colts or even Hi Standards at all, even if we give him a 3D printer.
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*The .38 SW caliber spec is .361. The Brits designated the round .38-200. It used a 200-grain bullet which gave Tommy's leftenant leisure for a spot of tea before it became time to see if his projectile had yet struck the Hun.
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If you try to cut .38 Special cases down to load in the .38 S&W you will probably have split cases, the shorter case is markedly fatter. Send off to Midway for a hundred or to Starline cases. Even if your loads were low enough in pressure to not split the cases you'd have pee-poor accuracy, the smaller case laying in the chamber would start the bullet crooked through the bore.
You can use the various hollow based wadcutters from Remington, Hornady or Speer, with any of the fast powders like Bullseye or 231 for instance, the hollow base would slug up to fit the bore.
We've an early fifties, late forties family heirloom S&W Terrier in .38 S&W that I sometimes slip into my pocket when going out and about where trouble is unlikely.
Thanks for the comment. I'll report what happens.
Turns out the rim thickness is no problem.
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