dgross

I would like to thank those who kindly posted on this question. Some further research I did has yielded the following, which I will quote from the web page linked below. Quite a good site, that Hawks fellow seems to have. http://www.chuckhawks.com/38super.htm <begin quote> Note that externally the .38 Super cartridge looks identical to the .38 Auto (except for the headstamp). .38 Auto ammunition may be fired in .38 Super guns, but it may not operate the slide. .38 Super ammo should never be fired in .38 Auto pistols; it is way over pressure for these guns. In 1974 the Shooting Industry mandated that a +P be added to the headstamp of .38 Super ammunition to help differentiate it from .38 Auto ammunition. The +P still appears on .38 Super cases, even though there has never been a low pressure .38 Super load, and the .38 Auto has been discontinued. <end quote>

I have a Witness with both a .45 top and a .38 Super top, and so I have just started looking for .38 Super ammo. Seems that in 99% of the places I look, the ammo is described as +P. I was not preferring to routinely put +P through the gun. One seller, on an on-line auction, had some new .38 Super ammo that he said isn't +P. It's from Armscor, a manufacturer in the Phillipines. And I'm starting to think that this seller may be incorrect, because I also read a source on the web that said that _all_ .38 Super ammo is titled as +P, in order to help keep it from getting confused with a another nearby caliber. I e-mailed EAA Corp, asking then about this, and you'll see below the answer I got from them: two words, all lower-case ... So, to re-cap: _is_ there such a thing as non +P ammo in .38 Super. Is a .38 Super Witness built to handle +P routinely? Thank you! ---- the exchange with EAA Corp ---- try fiocchi Doug Gross wrote: > I recently acquired a Witness with two tops: one is .45 , and the > other is .38 Super . > > Now that I have started looking for .38 Super ammo, it seems that just > about the only type I can find is .38 Super +P . I'm not a big fan of > routine firing of +P . > > Is non +P ammo available in .38 Super ? > > Or is routine usage of +P in this Witness okay? > > Thank you

These replies have been great! This is very encouraging. Further question: so, does changing between single action and double action alter the *reach* that your finger has to do, for the finger-pad to sit flat on the trigger? (A major reason I'm looking at the Witness is that the Sigs and the CZs require a finger reach that is too long for me [i.e., I can operate the pistol, of course, but the finger isn't flat on the trigger].) Again, thank you all very much!

I have the option to buy a EAA Witness "Super Competition" model (the type with the right-angled front corner on the trigger guard...) It is currently set up for "single-action-only", though, and I would like to make it double-action. A smith at EAA said that I can get the parts for that and change it myself; is anybody able to comment on how complicated this is or is not? Any pins that have to be driven, for example? Thank you very much!