32 S&W(short) load data and bullet molds

[mac1911]

anyone have a link or old manual listing this old cartridge.
I like to shoot my old lemon squeezer but @ 25.00+ a box I could recoup my die set and mold quickly.

[Guesser]

I shoot a lot of 32 S&W. I cast 313249, 86gr. soft. I load over 1.5 gr. of Bullseye. That's for my old solid frame Colts and S&W. For a sqeezer I would back off to 1.0 gr. of Bullseye. I think it is Ideal #35 that recommends that combination.

[Bret4207]

The older Lyman books and their cast books all have 32 S+W info. I started out using a 311316 in mine because it was the only mould I had. I must have shot thousands of them with loads like 1.3 BE, 1.5 Red Dot, 1.7 SR-7625. With Unique I had a "hot" lot of 2.5 gr. All these were shot from an old #4 Rolling Block. I used similar loads with the Hornady 90 gr swaged SWC and another Lyman mould of about 85 grs whose number escapes me at the moment. I've killed quite a bit of small game with the #4 and a later #6 Remington and a simple FN cast boolit that probably didn't break 750 fps from the rifle barrel.

I'm pretty sure Ken Waters has one of his usual excellent articles on the 32 S+W in "Pet Loads". In a Lemon Squeezer I'd see if the Lee Soup Can was big enough. I got lucky with my K32 as my Soup Cans are just large enough to shoot really well.

[NoZombies]

Unless you're really wanting to shoot game with your lemon squeezer, I would recommend the lee 93 gr RN bullet. If it drops too small for the revolver, a little beagling tape can solve the problem. A set of cheap dies and a pound of bullseye, and you'll be in the .32 S&W game for a loong time for not much outlay. The brass does last forever if you can keep from loosing it.

1.0 gr bullseye has done very well from my .32 S&W top break. They aren't fast, but they aren't hurting the gun either. I don't tend to think of my top break as a target gun, so I just use them for plinking and informal "fun" shooting, so the low velocity isn't a problem. I get consistent ignition, and the 90-100 gr bullets shoot to the sights pretty well over the light load of BE.

[mac1911]

this is a 100% fun shooter @ over 100 years old and in decent shape. The gent I purchased it from said the firepin has been broken since his dad owned......in the 30s

[WestByGollyTexas]

Great thread. Actually picked up a pair of H&R top breaks 32's, one of which is black powder cartridges only.

[Outpost75]

For my neighbor's lemon squeezer I've been loading the Accurate 31-087T, as-cast and unsized, lubed with Lee Liquid Alox and 1.5 grains of Bullseye or TiteGroup.

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[quail4jake]

Outpost, as always, solid advice and great data! Has anyone tried 1.5gr Trail Boss under a 78gr LRN sized .313? I'm doing that now and getting 650fps and my 3.5" Safety Hammerless groups 3-4" @ 25 yds on a steady hand day. One thing I think is really important is softer alloy. My S&W slugs .313 grooves but the soft bullet (I think) obturates.

For my neighbor's lemon squeezer I've been loading the Accurate 31-087T, as-cast and unsized, lubed with Lee Liquid Alox and 1.5 grains of Bullseye or TiteGroup.

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[35remington]

I would suggest NOE's 313492 Lyman wadcutter clone of 88 grains if you want a blunter bullet with more thump as opposed to the usual round nose bullet. Seating depth also approximates the round nose which means similar powder charges can be used. Go for the .315" variant. Should still have some in stock.

[NoZombies]

The little cartridge pushes things slowly enough that I prefer softer alloys as well, but I don't sweat it if I've got COWW or similar in the pot when I'm casting for it.

As I mentioned (5+/- years ago) the little Lee bullet makes a good projectile for range time with the cartridge, and has helped several guns shoot to their sights with the light loads I use. I have and use a lot of other molds as well, but I haven't found anything that works so much better that I feel the need to change my statement about it.

If you happen to have another mold in the 70-100 grain range, please try it and let us know the results. If it's too small, beagle the mold. Generally the little 32's want to shoot in spite of all the stuff they've got going against them.

For the last several years my go to "range toy" in .32 S&W (short) is an 1870's vintage S&W single action top break gun. It's accurate enough to be fun, and it's well made and fun to shoot with either light BP equivalent loads, or with real BP (for which I have an old stash of balloon head brass).

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[quail4jake]

SWEET! That looks like mine, made in 1884. Have you fired Trail Boss loads in it? Thanks for sharing!

The little cartridge pushes things slowly enough that I prefer softer alloys as well, but I don't sweat it if I've got COWW or similar in the pot when I'm casting for it.

As I mentioned (5+/- years ago) the little Lee bullet makes a good projectile for range time with the cartridge, and has helped several guns shoot to their sights with the light loads I use. I have and use a lot of other molds as well, but I haven't found anything that works so much better that I feel the need to change my statement about it.

If you happen to have another mold in the 70-100 grain range, please try it and let us know the results. If it's too small, beagle the mold. Generally the little 32's want to shoot in spite of all the stuff they've got going against them.

For the last several years my go to "range toy" in .32 S&W (short) is an 1870's vintage S&W single action top break gun. It's accurate enough to be fun, and it's well made and fun to shoot with either light BP equivalent loads, or with real BP (for which I have an old stash of balloon head brass).

http://iownguns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/smithSA.jpg

[NoZombies]

SWEET! That looks like mine, made in 1884. Have you fired Trail Boss loads in it? Thanks for sharing!

I haven't tried trail boss in the gun. I've got a can I bought when it first came out, but I've never found "the right" load to use it in. I got more variation with trail boss than I did with the other powders I was using in the 32 long.

How does your load do consistency-wise? I'd love to find something to use up the rest of my trail boss in, and it would go a long way on the little pea shooters.

[quail4jake]

I use 1.5gr Trail boss which comes below the capacity of the case with the boolit seated and accuracy has been amazing but MV=650 with crazy SDs...70-100 comes to mind. So, very variable shot to shot MVs but very consistent MV avg and great grouping. go figure! I truthfully think that the recipe for success has been soft (BNH 10-12) boolits sized .313 really great lube (magma). Now I want to revisit black powder!

I haven't tried trail boss in the gun. I've got a can I bought when it first came out, but I've never found "the right" load to use it in. I got more variation with trail boss than I did with the other powders I was using in the 32 long.

How does your load do consistency-wise? I'd love to find something to use up the rest of my trail boss in, and it would go a long way on the little pea shooters.

[35remington]

Try Bullseye or Titegroup before deciding wide variations in velocity are the norm with Bullseye being preferred.

[EMC45]

The little cartridge pushes things slowly enough that I prefer softer alloys as well, but I don't sweat it if I've got COWW or similar in the pot when I'm casting for it.

As I mentioned (5+/- years ago) the little Lee bullet makes a good projectile for range time with the cartridge, and has helped several guns shoot to their sights with the light loads I use. I have and use a lot of other molds as well, but I haven't found anything that works so much better that I feel the need to change my statement about it.

If you happen to have another mold in the 70-100 grain range, please try it and let us know the results. If it's too small, beagle the mold. Generally the little 32's want to shoot in spite of all the stuff they've got going against them.

For the last several years my go to "range toy" in .32 S&W (short) is an 1870's vintage S&W single action top break gun. It's accurate enough to be fun, and it's well made and fun to shoot with either light BP equivalent loads, or with real BP (for which I have an old stash of balloon head brass).

http://iownguns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/smithSA.jpg


That's a cute little sucker.

[FergusonTO35]

I would try Bullseye first, I doubt you can safely load enough Titegroup to get a clean burn with low spread. That has been my experience with .38 Special and .32 Auto, Titegroup doesn't seem to like low pressure whereas Bullseye really excels in this area.

[dlidster]

For those who balk at long posts I'll get right to the point then elaborate for those who might want to read on.

My objective was to create a smokeless .32 S&W load that would put no stress on a turn-of-the-century Iver Johnson revolver. My components were 78 gr RN cast bullet (MBC #18), Starline brass, CCI 500 primer, and what would prove to be the most sensible choice among Bullseye, Unique, or Trail Boss. I didn't want to fool with BP or a substitute.

Using a dribbler with my powder scale I loaded five cases each with 1.0 gr of the three powders. The chronographed results are as follows:

Bullseye 1.0 gr -- 503 fps
Unique 1.0 gr -- 485 fps
Trail Boss 1.0 gr -- 549 fps

I found that there was no way my Redding measure would meter consistent charges of this tiny amount of Bullseye or Unique. Just a 0.1 gr variation plus/minus is 20% error. Trail Boss, being about half-again the volume of Unique, would meter pretty consistently in tiny charges. However, I felt the 1.0 gr load a little hot. I backed down to 0.6 gr which gave an average velocity of 424 fps dribbled; 401 fps metered.

This is an absolute pussycat of a load. It's not a whole lot louder than a cap gun. Not only am I certain it is gentle on the gun, it's accuracy at seven yards amazed me. (This Iver Johnson is in NRA not truly awful condition, but its bore looks like a century-old iron drain pipe. Some rifling does show though the pitting.)

BTW, that's shooting single-action, two-hand grip, focus on the tiny sights through bifocals. I'm 74.

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[bruce drake]

I just picked up a Iver Johnson Hammerless in 32S&W on Gunbroker today. My wife wanted a range pistol without the big grip of my 357 revolver. Dlidster, since you've only done one post since you've joined us, I will say, thank you for the detailed posting which gives me a load to start with.

Bruce

[Wayne Smith]

I load my grandmother's H&R top break with a sized buckshot (not at all consistent in size) and 1gr BE. The first time I took it to the range I told Mike (the range officer) what I had and he followed me down to the pistol range. I asked him why (I know him rather well) and he said "I just want to make sure it goes through the backing!"

[GhostHawk]

I have shot #1 buckshot through both of my H&R 2.5 inch barreled revolvers.

Actually found it worked best squished slightly then run through a .314 lee sizing die.
Easy to load, grouped well enough on paper at 20 feet.

So then I tried some double ought sized similarly. That worked also.

Best of all thus far though were the Lee .314 tl truncated cone loaded backwards. Rear driving band just above the brass. That gave me the best accuracy of everything I have tried. That was over 2 grains of Red Dot.

Light recoil, very moderate sound, muzzle blast. A joy to shoot even for old hands.
And It put 6 rounds in a 2" stick on bullseye with plenty of room around the edges.

Two triangles, 3 top shots touching with the one in center highest.
3 bottom shots touching with one in center lowest. Perhaps a quarter inch between the 2 triangles.

I packed the old girl up and walked away. Not going to improve on that. Had a huge smile on my face, and a witness that I shot it one handed standing at 20 feet.

My witness is ex Army Ranger 14 years, 5 tours, 2 in afghanistan and 3 in the sand box.

His jaw dropped. "How did you do that?" when the target came up.

"Used the force, of course"

[bruce drake]

When you need very light .312” bullets for the Mrs’s "new" .32 S&W purse pistol and the store wants as much for the box of 50 plated lead bullets as a box of 25 cartridges and NOE wants also as much for a mold as what the pistol was purchased for...you build your own.bullet..

Thanks to a small core mold I had on the shelf for a 7.62 Tokarov project a couple of years back and some finagling with a .308 Corbin half-jacket and a little bit of swaying at the bench in a 95degree garage and some swaging in the press itself and boom...50 brand new Round Nose Flat Point Jacketed bullets with a concave bottom to help bump the base up from its current .311” to fully engage the barrel’s rifling. They weigh out at 66gr so they are 11grains lighter than the old black powder bullet but I also don’t want to try to create a hand cannon or a hand grenade out of the 110year old pistol. Starting loads of 1.4gr of Red Dot or 1.1gr of Bullseye from Lyman’s CB book should be more than enough for the small cartridge. Hand measuring the powder on the scale will be all trickled-work of course. This is load data for a Lyman 77gr RN bullet and the swaged bullet being lighter should give a little more velocity without a bad pressure spike. These loads are only going to be developed for basically 7yd distance accuracy. Basically if the bad guy is not within 21ft of me, I won't be planning to shoot it. But I will tell you that after I put 5 shots into a bad guy, the little pistol could be easily used to bludgeon a bad guy with the steel butt of the pistol if he decides to laugh off the little bullets (I've advised my wife if she uses it to aim for right about the belt buckle as that's all soft tissue there and the bullet should penetrate well there despite it's low velocity which is not a guarantee it would make it past a rib bone like a chest shot and face shots are too difficult for a casual shooter to master in a stressful shoot situation.

The reloading dies and the Starline 32S&W brass are due in from Midway this week and once they come in, I’ll start assembling the cartridges for the next range trip.
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[35remington]

Since jacketed bullets get considerably less velocity than lead bullets with the same charges, I would suggest chronographing those before giving them to the Mrs. for self defense.

A solid nondeformimg bullet will easily penetrate sufficiently if of reasonable weight for a 32 and possessing a velocity approximating 660fps, which is what the 88 grain RN factory loads get in four inch barrels. Even if a rib is in the way.

A lot slower, not so much. Beware starting loads behind jacketed bullets if velocity has not been verified. If you don’t know, don’t use them.

[JoeJames]

I have really enjoyed this thread, but it is a mixed blessing. I have been loading the 32 S&W Long off and on far a pretty good spell, and shooting it in my S&W 631 4". Then about three months ago I came up with a Smith & Wesson Hand ejector model of 1903 fifth version, and it has been fun tinkering with hand loads to where it will shoot to point of aim.

But now, y'all have got me interesting in looking around for an old top break Iver Johnson or a Smith. Oh my.

[bruce drake]

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32 S&W compared to a 50-70 Govt, My smallest reloadable cartridge and my largest...

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I'm sure it's moving decently enough to poke a hole in someone close with 1.1gr of Bullseye as the nose expanded to full wadcutter status when it hit sand this afternoon. This is a starting load in the Lyman CB manual for the 77gr Lead Roundnose. The load sounds like a starter's pistol.

I have told the Mrs to shoot a bad guy with all 5 bullets and then turn the pistol around and clunk them over the head with the pistol butt repeatedly. I would then allow the coroner to decide which was the killing shot/blow....

[35remington]

If your wife is depending upon them, do her the honor of checking how fast they go. What a bullet does in unyielding sand is a poor substitute for actually knowing its velocity.

An adequately penetrating bullet is of considerable value. When all is said and done, though, she is your wife, not mine. I’d rather she avoid the fisticuffs and go with a sure to penetrate projectile, but that is how I roll as far as preferences.

Even if she is recoil sensitive a 32 like a suitable solid frame Colt or Smith with more velocity would be manageable. There is no good reason to pursue low velocity with bullets this light.

This is just advice. In the final accounting it is not my business or concern.

[bruce drake]

unrequested advice is worth the same as unneeded advice or well-needed advice.

Its the same as opinions.

People have died by being shot with a 32 in the past and this load is a viable load if you know where to shoot them. And you don't know my wife's ability to toss a punch. Adding a steel pistol butt to the mix would be deadly as well. A pocket 32 pistol is more of a visual deterrent when a perp doesn't have a firearm themselves. In that case, a 32 is better than just 2 hands...

[Green Frog]

unrequested advice is worth the same as unneeded advice or well-needed advice.

Its the same as opinions.

People have died by being shot with a 32 in the past and this load is a viable load if you know where to shoot them. And you don't know my wife's ability to toss a punch. Adding a steel pistol butt to the mix would be deadly as well. A pocket 32 pistol is more of a visual deterrent when a perp doesn't have a firearm themselves. In that case, a 32 is better than just 2 hands...

Agreed. A 32 S&W revolver in the hand of a potential assault victim is far superior to a 44 Mag at home in the safe. It’s the attitude... refusal to be a victim that will see her through, and having even a “little” firearm will just helps tilt the odds a little more in her favor.

Froggie

[Green Frog]

This discussion of loads comes at a propitious time for me. I've just assembled a S&W produced (late 1800s) hand loading set and need to load some ammo with it just so I can say I can and did! So far I've loaded the dozen short cases I could find here with BP like would have been used in 1890. Next week I'm heading to the Northwest Territories (Ohio for you non-historians) to visit Dale53, and among our various endeavors will be a trial run of 32 S&Ws using the round nosed bullet from the mould included in the S&W tool set along with Bullseye powder. They should be a hoot to shoot. :Fire:

Froggie

[Clark]

My grandfather had an Iver Johnson break top 38 S&W hammerless in the Alaskan Gold rush 110 years ago.
18 years ago my brother and I would carpool to the gun show and buy piles of guns.
32 S&W revolvers were worth $50 working and $35 with the trigger spring broken.
I could get leaf springs from Wolff springs that were easy to replace, or one could wind up a piece of guitar spring in there, but that was not easy.

We had a lot of 32 S&W revolvers and I tried to blow a few of them up.
The case is probably the highest pressure capable case in the world.
The break top revolvers have probably the weakest latch in the world.
The latch mechanism goes through a thin piece of steel with a 5-56 screw IIRC going through the hole.
If the tiny hole in the sheet metal stretches from round to oblong, the latch becomes loose and the action is sloppy.

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I came to the conclusion that the best load with any bullet was 1 gr of Bullseye, and the latch would not stretch.

[bruce drake]

I have found I like the 1.1gr of Bulleye with the 65gr jacketed bullet and a 1.2gr Red Dot load with a poly-coated 86gr RN (I mixed up a nice shade of purple for the PC run for the Mrs.)

[Green Frog]

I have found I like the 1.1gr of Bulleye with the 65gr jacketed bullet and a 1.2gr Red Dot load with a poly-coated 86gr RN (I mixed up a nice shade of purple for the PC run for the Mrs.)

What, no pink bullets? If she shoots the bad guy with a pink bullet and the wound doesn’t kill him, the mortification will! :mrgreen:

[bruce drake]

What, no pink bullets? If she shoots the bad guy with a pink bullet and the wound doesn’t kill him, the mortification will! :mrgreen:

She liked the purple. she hates the color pink.

[one-eyed fat man]

... you don't know my wife's ability to toss a punch. Adding a steel pistol butt to the mix would be deadly as well...

In that case, old Iver johnson made exactly what you need, knuckle duster attachment for their revolver. Here is a 2nd model Safety Hammerless .32, just so equipped. As a added bonus, when at the range and the Glock guy says, "Hey, that thing has a Glock trigger!" You can point out the revolver was made in 1896 while his Glock was still two liter bottles in 1996.

Almost forgot, I use the Lyman #313249, as cast with 11 grains of Goex 3F in my older Owl head revolvers.

[Battis]

I have a Colt .32 Police Positive (.32 S&W). I googled around and read somewhere - maybe here- that cops carried them not as a "man stopper", but as more of a "man marker". They'd shoot the fleeing bad guy, and that bad guy would keep fleeing and eventually end up in the hospital.

[9.3X62AL]

The 32 S&W is one of the few 30/31/32 caliber handgun chamberings that I don't load. Love them thar mid-calibers, I surely do.

It might have been me that brought up the subject of "Man marker" vs. "Man stopper" in the context of the lighter & slower handgun calibers. In days past, it was socially acceptable to fire upon fleeing suspected felons irrespective of their armed/unarmed status. Another element of those earlier times was the relative absence of effective antibiotics to treat the microbes and mangy critters that got dragged into a gunshot wound as the bullet traversed its recipient. And the illnesses prompted by those infections were no joke whatsoever, and were often fatal. So avoidance of the gunshot wound was wise reasoning on a couple fronts.

[bruce drake]

In that case, old Iver johnson made exactly what you need, knuckle duster attachment for their revolver. Here is a 2nd model Safety Hammerless .32, just so equipped. As a added bonus, when at the range and the Glock guy says, "Hey, that thing has a Glock trigger!" You can point out the revolver was made in 1896 while his Glock was still two liter bottles in 1996.

Almost forgot, I use the Lyman #313249, as cast with 11 grains of Goex 3F in my older Owl head revolvers.

I think they only made like 1000 or so of those knuckleduster grip frames and I've read they command a premium also.

[RED BEAR]

i use the lee 93 grain cut down so it only has one lube groove worked out to 65 grain. was originally for 32acp but was a little short for that but works great for the 32 sw. i load 1.1 grains bullseye shoots great in all my sw ( h&r iver johnson and thames). I've been on a 32 kick lately. very cheap fun at the range.

[Thin Man]

A while back a long time friend asked me to load a box of 32 S&W loads for him as he did not have a proper die set for that caliber. The box of 50 rounds I crafted were divided equally between an 85 grain wadcutter (Lyman 313492) and an 85 grain RN boolit from an early Ideal tong tool. My friend was thrilled with the gift and we joked all afternoon about the WC loads. Only 2 months ago he passed away from heart disease. Now I am helping his widow arrange all his firearms and handloading materials and other related accessories for her to sell. If I find that box of 32 S&W ammo it may come home with me to reside on a shelf and not be fired. Tribute to a friend.

[Outpost75]

I have a Colt .32 Police Positive (.32 S&W). I googled around and read somewhere - maybe here- that cops carried them not as a "man stopper", but as more of a "man marker". They'd shoot the fleeing bad guy, and that bad guy would keep fleeing and eventually end up in the hospital.

Here is a Pocket Positive .32 NP from 1920, just what you are talking about.
J. Edgar Hoover had one with a 2-1/2" barrel.

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[Four Fingers of Death]

I just bought an Astra 32S& W Revolver (Spanish made). I swapped it for a lever rifle I haven't used in many years (and have two of). It came with Lee dies, 1000 commercial wadcutters, 450 loaded rounds (my friend who is a reliable reloader) and 400 new brass cases. I will have to grind off that raised bit on the trigger guard, it whacks the tripe out of my knuckle (big hands, little gun). I'm looking forward to lots of economical target shooting.

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[Good Cheer]

Once upon a time my sister and I were shooting Remington factory loads in a S&W hammerless with the squeeze safety on the back of the grip.
The pop can being used for a target tipped over when shot and the next shot was captured by the formed rim on the can's bottom, the light weight can flipping through the air in response to absorbing the boolit's energy. Those were probably 88 grain, a standard swaged Remington boolit back then.

Ah ha, found the picture was looking for... used to shoot these in a 1849 Colt.
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[Outpost75]

Back in the day my brother and I made .32 revolver bullets using a home-made hammer swage, using a piece of 1/4" boiler plate bolted to the bench top through which we had drilled a 5/16" hole through the boiler plate, chamfering the leading edge well with a countersink, then polishing the hole with 240-grit emery cloth wrapped around a spike, matching the sizing die hole with a larger 3/8" hole drilled through the wooden bench top. The little "bullets" came out about .315".

Lay a piece of 00 buckshot over the countersunk hole. Smack buckshot flush to plate with a hammer. Then drive rest of the way through the hole with a 1/4" punch. Catch your "bullets" on a folded towel placed inside a paint can. Then slide the folded towel out and tumble-lube your "bullets" with JPW or Glo-Coat floor wax, sloshing them around in the paint can. A 5 lb. bag of hardware store buckshot lasted us all through high school in the 1960s on our trap line.

We decapped fired cases with a nail and mallet, no need to resize. Reprimed cases on a steel plate with same hammer and 1/4" brass rod. Used a .22 short case as a dip measure for 1.2-1.5 grains of Bullseye. Push bullets flush to case mouth. Roll crimp by placing case mouth over our bullet sizing plate and tapping GENTLY with the rawhide mallet just a wee bit.

[Four Fingers of Death]

Needs must Outpost, great times.

[Tackleberry41]

I tried the traditional powders that work in the 32 short. Trailboss got the best velocity. 1.5gr behind a lee 90gr. Only mold I have that works, dont shoot it enough to invest in another mold.

[EMC45]

I just bought an Astra 32S& W Revolver (Spanish made). I swapped it for a lever rifle I haven't used in many years (and have two of). It came with Lee dies, 1000 commercial wadcutters, 450 loaded rounds (my friend who is a reliable reloader) and 400 new brass cases. I will have to grind off that raised bit on the trigger guard, it whacks the tripe out of my knuckle (big hands, little gun). I'm looking forward to lots of economical target shooting.

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Looks like you're set!

[Good Cheer]

Picked up a new in the box Uberti 1849 a couple few months back.
Just found out I can get a conversion cylinder for it... now wouldn't that just be the cat's meow.

[Four Fingers of Death]

It would make a dandy little gun Good Cheer.

[1775usmarine]

Got 2 H&R topbreaks one a premier the other hammerless. Both are from around the 20's and in great shape. This was just the thread I was looking for to see what mold people were using. I plan on using the same mold for my 32 autos and if my cz52 slugs right that as well. Most of my casting will be for these cartridges though I do have a 230gr 45 mold and will eventually find one for the rest of my calibers.

[dtknowles]

Fired both my 32 S & W's today. Was checking here for powder charges to load more ammo. A new model 1 1/2 and a fourth Model double action. I am suggesting to my wife to use the Fourth Model instead of her Walther P22.

Tim