.25acp/auto moulds?

[1Shirt]

Ya know, to each his own, but I would about rather drop a ten pound ingot on my bare foot as to load another 25ACP. Had a guy years ago want me to load him a couple of hundred of them for him. Said I would if he would buy the dies for me. He did, and I loaded them for him, gave them to him along with the dies, and a promise to myself that I would not ever load another round of the thing. I lost some skin on finger tips in sizing the little cases. Even drew blood on one. I was younger and hopefully dumber at that point in my life, or at least I think I was.

On the other hand, I cast and shoot for hornets, and there are a lot of folks who probably feel about the same way about them.
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[evan price]

Aw, ****, I need a cast 25 mold now.

Clark, you keep being you. From reading your posts have led me further to experiment with 32 S&W Long than any loadbook ever did, and I came up with some SANE but hot 32 Long loads.

[turbo1889]

The 25-ACP is by no means the most interesting tiny cartridge out there to load for. There is a propitiatory/wild-cat cartridge floating around out there that consists of a slightly smaller diameter case then the 25-ACP that is basically a non-rimmed center fire version of a 22-lr case that is necked down to take a 5mm boolit. There is also another one out there that is basically a center fire version of the 17-Mark II and uses and even smaller 17-cal boolit but it is actually easier to load for since it doesn't use an odd size 5mm bullet although it is a PITA to get the powder through the little tiny neck.

Although I do load and cast for the 25-ACP I much prefer the 32-ACP although I wish neither were semi-rimmed cartridges and were true rim-less. Anyone that has experienced a phenomenon known as "rim-lock" in the magazine of there little semi-auto knows exactly what I'm talking about. I've often though a neat little wild-cat cartridge could be made by trimming down 30-carbine brass to a shorter length and capping them off with heavier weight 0.312" diameter bullets like used in the 32-H&R mag (as apposed to the lighter weight 0.311" diameter bullets used in 32-ACP) and then converting a 9mm NATO single stack ultra-compact pocket pistol to use them in a double stack arrangement in the existing mag with the loaded cartridge overall length set to match that of the 9mm NATO cartridge. Less recoil more magazine capacity and an over-all easier controlled and more pleasant to shoot weapon that packs more punch then a 32-ACP and won't rim-lock on you. Yes, I know the 380-ACP cartridge pretty much fits that description as well but there is a penetration and hydro-shock advantage to a smaller boolit moving faster and both the 32-ACP and 380-ACP can have inadequate penetration problems in all but the best loading combinations.

[Haggway]

Guess I am going to have to get stuff to load for the 25acp now. not worried about mouse loads either just have to exit the barrel.
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[0verkill]

Have you looked into the 32 NAA? Since you planned on using a 9mm Parabellum, how about having a barrel made for it's daddy, the 30 Luger?

The 25-ACP is by no means the most interesting tiny cartridge out there to load for. There is a propitiatory/wild-cat cartridge floating around out there that consists of a slightly smaller diameter case then the 25-ACP that is basically a non-rimmed center fire version of a 22-lr case that is necked down to take a 5mm boolit. There is also another one out there that is basically a center fire version of the 17-Mark II and uses and even smaller 17-cal boolit but it is actually easier to load for since it doesn't use an odd size 5mm bullet although it is a PITA to get the powder through the little tiny neck.

Although I do load and cast for the 25-ACP I much prefer the 32-ACP although I wish neither were semi-rimmed cartridges and were true rim-less. Anyone that has experienced a phenomenon known as "rim-lock" in the magazine of there little semi-auto knows exactly what I'm talking about. I've often though a neat little wild-cat cartridge could be made by trimming down 30-carbine brass to a shorter length and capping them off with heavier weight 0.312" diameter bullets like used in the 32-H&R mag (as apposed to the lighter weight 0.311" diameter bullets used in 32-ACP) and then converting a 9mm NATO single stack ultra-compact pocket pistol to use them in a double stack arrangement in the existing mag with the loaded cartridge overall length set to match that of the 9mm NATO cartridge. Less recoil more magazine capacity and an over-all easier controlled and more pleasant to shoot weapon that packs more punch then a 32-ACP and won't rim-lock on you. Yes, I know the 380-ACP cartridge pretty much fits that description as well but there is a penetration and hydro-shock advantage to a smaller boolit moving faster and both the 32-ACP and 380-ACP can have inadequate penetration problems in all but the best loading combinations.