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I've shot plenty of both .38 Super and Super Comp through an EAA Witness and a SIG P220 and never had an issue.When I was shooting .38 Super (not competitively), every once in a while I'd get a Comp case mixed in with the rest, never caused an issue in my guns. Mine were all stock guns (minus barrel change in one).
Yes, maybe I should've put Witness is parentheses after "Tanfoglio," as people may know the gun more widely by that brand name.EAA Witness
I just looked those up in .38 Super, an uncommon gun. I have to plead complete ignorance of Sig pistols, they were never in my zone of consideration for what I wanted to buy, plus tending to be expensive. The one experience I have with shooting a Sig was the P210, it was a German made gun. Shot like a dream the first magazine I went through. It was about a $2,000 gun as I recall, the range member who let me shoot his told me where he got it. I was interested enough to go by the shop. They told me they hadn't had any for quite some time, Sig wasn't making them in Germany any more. The next time I saw the member who owned one, that's when he allowed that he'd waited a year to get his. Sig NH has made them again here in the US, but I didn't like the appearance of those as much as I liked the German gun I fired. Grip design was different, for one thing.SIG P220
I don't recall the Browning BDA being offered in any other caliber than .45acp. The BDA was pretty expensive at the time, it was only offered for a few years. During the 70's and 80's the .38 Super had a brief resurgence due to it's appearance in action shooting. Using heavy bullets (around 147 grains) and a careful selection of powder it qualified for "Major" in action shooting. That was the driving force behind the development of the ".38 Super Comp" by Starline Brass. While all that was going on SIG put out a version of their P220 in .38 Super to capitalize on the "re-invention" of the .38 Super. SIG only offered those for a few years. I snapped one of those up as soon as the advertisements hit the magazines. It was also during this period where those making pistols in .38 Super changed to head spacing on the cartridge mouth instead of the cartridge rim. Regardless any modern pistol made in .38 Super head spaces on the cartridge mouth, which has increased the accuracy of those pistols. Personally I love the cartridge and pistols chambered in it. Hands and feet over 9x19 in most cases.Reading about the P220 in .38 Super, I saw that at one time, Browning offered it as a BDA. Not only was I unfamiliar with the gun but for a long time, as this gun has been around since the 1970's.