.327 Federal in Lever Rifle

[donald duck]

Does anyone have knowledge of where I might purchase a Lever Action in the fairly recent .327 Federal. I wish Marlin or Rossi would produce one. Have a Marlin in .357 and love it. Only shoot .357 in it with RNFP cast bullets. It is accurate and fun to shoot. Thanks, dd

[seaboltm]

Sounds like a re-barrel project, but it could surely be done.

[sandman228]

to the best of my knowledge no one makes any kind of 327 fed in a lever gun ,single shot , or any kind of long gun . I agree it would make a fun plinker and maybe a decent small game rifle. marlin does or did make 1 in 32 h&r but ive never seen 1 other than pics online.im also into leverguns have a win 94 30 30 , a henry 22 ,a35 marlin and a rossi 92 357 magnum. I had another rossi in 44 but was kinda disappointed in it . I wouldn't mind seeing the 327 in a h&r handi rifle . yes the lever gun would be more fun but it would need to be better priced than a marlin and better quality than a rossi unfortunately that will probably never happen. Im a fan of the 327 mag I bought 1 in a ruger gp100 a few years back and I reload and cast a few different styles of bullets for it , unfortunately most people don't share our interest in it .

[MT Gianni]

I fear it would be like a 357 max in a lever. It would involve lengthening lifters adn feed ramps and may not be possible in a 92 or even a marlin action set up for pistol cartridges. Too short for a 30-30 length as well.

[Four-Sixty]

I too have wondered why is there no .327 Federal rifle out there? I do agree the current offerings of new molds is somewhat more limited, but it seems like it could be an effecient caliber. I also love cartridges with a rim.

You can't get 35 Remington, and 357 Maximum brass...

You can get 22-250, .243 Winchester, 7MM-08 based off of .308 cases all day long, but you don't see .358 Winchester...

I don't get it!

Nothing will happen until some big gun writer wacks a couple of bucks with the .327 Federal and writes about it in a magazine. Until then...

[JHeath]

Does anyone have knowledge of where I might purchase a Lever Action in the fairly recent .327 Federal. I wish Marlin or Rossi would produce one. Have a Marlin in .357 and love it. Only shoot .357 in it with RNFP cast bullets. It is accurate and fun to shoot. Thanks, dd

Poke around the web. You will find happy Marlin owners who rechambered .32 H&Rs to .327. Other say rechambering drops the value of a limited-run Marlin so is not a good bargain. And at least one guy online says he can load his .32 H&R Marlin to .327 levels anyway.

I do not own a .327 anything but it's an appealing cartridge. It fills that critical "performance gap" between the .32-20 and the .30 Carbine!

[NoZombies]

Based on SAAMI specs, I suspect a .357 lever action could be modified to run the .327 without problems. The .327 is shorter than the .357.

[Thundarstick]

I have always been a fan of the 32s, own 5 different 327s and would LOVE to see a 327 lever! I would even settle for a little bolt action. I let a shop owner talk me out of a 32mag Marlin years ago and have kicked my self in the arss many times since! It would just really be a modern 32-20 for all practical purposes.

[btroj]

Why do we need a modern 32-20? The original still does all it needs to do.

[MT Gianni]

Why do we need a modern 32-20? The original still does all it needs to do.

Companion cartridge for the 327 handgun owners. Original factory pressure was 42,000 and reloaders were told to use SR primers. Then they chambered them in 2" Tauri and expected sales to be positive.

[dverna]

dd

I would be leery of getting into the .327 FM. Brass life is going to be poor (45,000 psi) and brass will always be difficult to get and/or expensive. It provides almost no advantage to your current .357 Mag lever gun (BTW, I have two .357 rifles and a .38 Spl rifle and love them).

If adding another lever gun is an itch you want to scratch, look at adding a .30/30. It will do everything a .327 will do at lower cost and can be loaded to do a lot more. Another good choice might be a .35 Remington - although brass for it can be scarce at times.

As btroj points out the .32-20 may be a better option than the .327 but it suffers from having a tapered case so you cannot load it like a pistol round. That is why I think the .30/30 is a better option. If you have to deal with a tapered case, you may as well get a .30/30 and have the flexibility to fire 110-170 bullets at 1000-2200 fps.

Don Verna

Don Verna

[exile]

I have an sp101 in. 327 federal (which I understand has been discontinued). Not that I know anything about it, but I have heard some say here that the pressure of the. 327 Federal is too much for a lever gun. Maybe that is why they discontinued the little ruger, too much pressure? Having said that, I like mine.

exile

[btroj]

32-20 brass has been made for well over a century. I'm not willing to bank on 327 Federal being around that long.

My Marlin 32-20 does everything I need it to do. If I want a bit more I have a 357 mag to use.

[Ramjet-SS]

The pressure had nothing to do with a Ruger dropping that clambering. The decision was made because they just are selling enough. I rechambered a K frame for it and love the performance. Probably would not be interested in a lever gun as there many better choices out there but it would be interesting to mess with.

[FergusonTO35]

I would love to have a .32 H&R lever action. Henry, are you listening?

[sandman228]

as for brass life im having no troubles getting 10+ reloads out of brass . but im loading lead plinker loads, im using 90 gr swc bullet with 4.5 gr or hp38 so im nowhere near the pressure of factory loads . as for the 327 being dropped from production, from what I understand Taurus ,charter and s&w all dropped the 327 because sales were down. sales were down due to lack of ammo (makes sense why buy a gun if you cant find ammo for it ). I don't know if theres any truth to this or not but im told federal couldn't even come close to keeping up with demand and wouldn't release the rights for anyone else to make it either. the caliber came out in 2008and they wouldn't even let starline make brass for it till 2012 . to the best of my knowledge the only 327 federals being made now are the gp100 and the Blackhawk and there both pulling around 800$ on gunbroker now. I dunno I still like the caliber when I bought the gun I picked up 8 boxes of factory ammo and managed to snag 300 rounds of brass from midsouth a while back plus have a few hundred rounds of 32 h&r brass ,I just hope things loosen up a bit down the road and ammo or brass is a little more easily found

[Idaho Mule]

There is a Marlin 1894 in .327 on Gunbroker right now. Kinda spendy but that's par for the course on GB. JW

[EDG]

Because you do not have to lube the brass.


Why do we need a modern 32-20? The original still does all it needs to do.