38 LC, is a black powder cartridge introduced by Colt's Manufacturing Company in 1875. Incidentally, while those revolvers were outwardly copies of the S&W M&P (K-Frame), the lockwork was of the Webley-Colt type, with a dual leaf spring powering the hammer and the rebound lever.Source(s): Hodgdon Reloading Data Center 38 Special loads, but whatever you do, don't try to fire it with high pressure (+P or +P+) loads you will be risking injury. I have heard of several blown up with standard loads, and STRONGLY suggest you not fire the gun. in that era were, to be blunt, junk, made from cheap 'pot metal' (cast iron of the type used for making cook pots). With few exceptions, most of the revolvers imported into the U.S. I think it is one of many names used by various Spanish makers on a wide assortment of both pistols and revolvers in the between-wars period. While 'ALFA' was the trade name of the Adolf Frank company, that trade mark is not one they used. Manufactured by Armero Especialistas Reunidas, located in Eibar, Spain, used from 1923 to 1929, so the revolver is of Spanish manufacture. The previous owner had replaced the stock grips with the larger rubber grips you see in the images above, which really balances it in the hand much better.Īny body have any more information on this revolver? I would be grateful for anything as my search has been long with very little satisfactory results. Regardless of where it was manufacture, it does appear to be fairly old, possibly manufactured somewhere around 1910-1930. Some information seems to point to it being a german manufacture, others to Spanish manufacture ( see this website translated from spanish). Search as I might, I can turn up precious little information on this revolver. 38 Long Ctg, and is fairly obviously a copy of the S&W and/or Colt police revolvers. 'American best cartridges are those that fit best the alfa revolvers' This revolver is stamped 'ALFA' on the frame near the grip, and has the following text stamped along the top of the barrel: I recently dug them out and cleaned them up and have a few questions that I thought the awesome folks here might be able to help with. They've been stored and unused for many years. These have been in the family since I was a child, and I have personally put many hundreds of rounds through both and were some of the first handguns I ever fired. I have a couple old revolvers I'm looking to get some input on.

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