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vulture47
11-14-2009, 12:41 AM
Want to get me a conversion cylinder for a .36 cal. Remington Navy revolver but understand you have to use hollow base bullets in order to get any accuracy. Is any company out there currantly making a heel base bullet in .38? I've been searching the net and coming up empty. Will stick to .44 if I can't find a bullet that will actually work right.
Guesser
11-14-2009, 11:57 AM
Don't know about the Remington, but I have a conversion kit for a Colt '51, 36 caliber that fires 38 S&W. Were the Remingtons that different?
TAWILDCATT
11-14-2009, 03:55 PM
you can get molds from EMF.they are copies of original molds.you have to figure a way to hold them they get hot.I have both them and original colt and remington molds.
vulture47
11-15-2009, 01:28 AM
Guesser, the .36 conversions, Colt and Remington are both chambered for .38 Smith and Wesson, but the .36 bore is .375, I think, and the .38 S&W is .357 give or take a little so they are undersize. The original conversions used a heel type bullet like the .41 Colt. Some folks use hollow base slugs in them and do fine, I just wanted to know if there was source for a heel type slug.
JeffinNZ
11-15-2009, 04:39 AM
Jim at CBE does a .380 heel bullet with the heel at .357 to suit .38 cases. He has just released the update version (this one) as the original had a .363 heel.

www.castbulletengineering.com
Wayne Smith
11-18-2009, 02:45 PM
Old West molds has a heeled .38 too, I believe.
Mayor
01-13-2012, 04:13 PM
Try this website

http://www.cartridgeconversion.com/
Freischütz
01-13-2012, 05:36 PM
I've heard that some people are converting to 41 Long Colt and thus avoiding the bullet diameter problem.

You might find this interesting:
http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php?PHPSESSID=bbe8f6d19a48356e3430d2aa298da5 c1&topic=24443.0
Mk42gunner
01-13-2012, 07:03 PM
Vulture47,

I would give Tom at Accuraate molds a try. I know he makes heeled boolit molds for the .32 Long Colt; I was sent some to try and they look very good.

Robert
Mk42gunner
01-13-2012, 07:15 PM
Vulture47,

I would give Tom at Accuraate molds a try. I know he makes heeled boolit molds for the .32 Long Colt; I was sent some to try and they look very good.

Robert