Sweet spot for 2400 ??

[Jack Stanley]

I'm getting ready to start stuffing 32-20 cases with my favorite H&G number sixty-seven bullet . It normally weighs in at or near a hundred fifteen grains and I'd like to try some 2400 with them . I old Manual I have show a max load of eleven grains for just over sixteen hundred with this bullet weight .

What I'd like to find is a 2400 load that drives nails . Doesn't matter if it's fast or slow (within reason) , I have a Browning model fifty-three so the rifle should take most anything short of silly . It's time to fill the Dillon border shift bag with loaded ammo again and this time I'd like something with a touch more than my last Bullseye load .

Thanks , and the Browning is anxiously awaiting your best load . :D

Jack

[btroj]

I would go with unique. My 32-20 really likes a 115 gr rnfp from a group buy here years back. 5 gr of unique works great. It is the load I shoot the most in that rifle.
I have used little 2400 in this rifle. I would expect you could tart around 8 gr or so and work up. I just prefer the unique as it uses less powder and does what I want.

[excess650]

5.5gr SR4756 or 15-15.5 AA2200. I know, not 2400!

[jmh54738]

PM sent, John

[Wayne S]

I used 10.0 2400 with a 125-130 J bullet in my 10" 30-20 T/C, switched to 7.5-8.0 of 231 and to a 150 gn M2 J-bullet for my silhouette shooting

[Jack Stanley]

John , thanks for the PM . That thread reminded me of why I want to get some SR 4756 at the next fun show . A long time ago I tried jacketed bullets and 2400 and they worked fine . I think cast at the same wieght as jacketed slips through the barrel with less pressure though . ........... Of course , I do have a case of Remington bulk softpoints for this somewhere around here , I could try and find those and see how they work :popcorn:

Jack

[jmh54738]

Jack, If you have access to Ken Water's "Pet Loads" he wrote comprehensive articles on both rifle and pistol loads for the 32-20. The rifle article was published in the May 1989
Handloader" magazine. Excellent reading. For a 117 grain lead bullet with 2400, he lists two loads: 9.0 grains @ 1497 fps and 9.5 grains @ 1524 fps. I really laugh at the marketing of later years; the cartridges, short and fat or calibers <22 and >45, with everything else being either "extreme" or "tactical". then we are warned to use only current loading data. I don't want new books full of pages with calibers that I don't have, using the 120 types of powder that I also don't have. I don't look for ear muffs when shooting the 32-20. Just getting old.....this morning I laid out my hearing aid and a suppository for the hemmaroids, and now I have a bunch of waxy s..t in my ear and I can't find my hearing aid.
John

[excess650]

Just getting old.....this morning I laid out my hearing aid and a suppository for the hemmaroids, and now I have a bunch of waxy s..t in my ear and I can't find my hearing aid.
John

Awwww, that's nothin'! I was at the restaurant the other day and the waitress was having a bad day. She had a tampon stuck behind her ear and couldn't find her pencil![smilie=l:

[Jack Stanley]

I just went over and grabbed the black binder that has some old issues ..... whaddaya know I got may of 89 ...... nice picture of a rock crusher press on the cover . I'll have to read it again .... been a long time ya know .:wink:

Jack

[deadwood55]

Thanks for the old jokes - all my joints ache from the laughing fit I just finished having.