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-> I regard the 38 super as a specialty IPSC round, and see little real
-> need for it outside the one special application.

 The story as I heard it (hearsay alert!) was that the Mexican
government frowns on its citizens posessing firearms in the same
calibers used by the Mexican military, which uses both .45 ACP and 9mm
Parabellum.  Thus the .38 Super is popular in Mexico.

 Since many of the early combat pistol matches were in the southwest
and in Mexico, many US shooters stuck with the Super so they could do
all their competition with the same gun and ammo.

 Ballistically there's not much difference between the .38 Super and 9mm
Parabellum, particularly if you consider the many variations of 9mmP.
Some people don't like the Super's rebated case, but that doesn't seem
to be a real problem.