32/327 mag loading,casting,shooting

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JPnewhampshire posted this 09 February 2016

HI All:  I am about to set up to cast/load 32 mag,  any comments on cast bullet design ?? Lee 311-100 vs 314-90 roll lube ?? Size or not size ?? any favorate practice/target loads etc. ?? Perry

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Brodie posted this 09 February 2016

JPNewhanoshire, Sadly I do not load for any of the 32 cal. pistol cartridges, however it is always best to size your bullets so that they will fit the chamber throat.  I assume you are shooting a revolver; if so either donn't size your bullets or size them so that they you can just push them through and out the cylinder.  More leading and inaccuracy has been caused by bullets slopping around in the cylinder throat than a lot of other things.  I tumble lube all my pistol bullets now in 45/45/10 recluse.  Said lube dries hard and non sticky and is easy to apply, and you can lube a whole bunch of bullets at once.  This time of the year when my garage loading room rarely gets above 40*F that is a great advantage.  Brodie

B.E.Brickey

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4060may posted this 09 February 2016

I just picked up a Ruger SP101 in .327 Fed Mag so far the LEE 311-93, cast with bank scrap, and powder coated to bring the dia to .313, shoots well with SR7625 (because I had a 12# canister) I run them through a .313 sizer just to even up the PC I also shoot a Grease Groove bullet similar to the 311008, casts at .314 and weighs 122gr, tried AA#7, and so far the results are good for me, I shake a lot the only reason I have the lighter LEE mold is 6 cavity and I shoot a lot of .32 S&W Long

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Dale53 posted this 10 February 2016

My favorite bullet for the .32 S&W Long and the .32 H&R Magnum is the RCBS .32-98gr. SWC. I have a new NOE five cavity aluminum mold that shoots well under 1” at 25 yards in both cases (with appropriate loads for each).

I also have just run range tests on a new Mihec mold for the 100 gr. double ended w/c with excellent results, too.

NOE offered both solid molds and hollow point molds for the RCBS bullet. If you are a Lee fan, the Lee 90 gr. TL SWC bullet works well too and is offered in a six cavity mold. I use Ben's Liquid Lube with that bullet with excellent results. It works in both the .32 S&W Long and .32 H&R Mag cases with appropriate loads.

FWIW Dale53

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Mustafa Curtess posted this 11 February 2016

I really like the 32 H&R Mag, and will offer what little I can to the thread - even tho it may not be useful. I got into this cartridge with a NEF R-73 revolver. Hopeless! -except that I bought brass & dies for it, so when I ran across a 10” Contender barrel at a give-away price, I took it. All of the Max. book loads (including the ones for Contender in a special load-book) were grossly under-pressure in the Contender barrel - altho dimensions are well within SAAMI specs. Excellent accuracy results are with any of several RNPB bullets from 93 to 120 gr.  Best powders are surplus WC820 and AA#7 (which seem identical IN THIS CARTRIDGE AND BARRELL!  in other applications, WC820 is closesr to AA#9)  Worked up to good case-to-chamber obduration and a bare trace of blackening at the case mouth, proved to be impressively accurate at 8.5 gr. WC 820, WSR primers, under the Lee #90301 100 RNPB (which happened to cast  102 gr. With “Hardball” alloy, quenched from the mould.) Slightly above 1400FPS x 21 SD. (I am not encouraged by SD's much over 12, but in the machine rest, these are boringly one ragged hole X 25 yd.)   Perhaps one thing that endears the 32 Mag cartridge to me is the fact that all of the Lee bullets - from the #90296 85 DEWC T/L - to the #90365 130 RNGC, plus RCBS 32-098 and Lyman 311410 shoot so well in it, with easily-developed loads of powders in the AA#7 class. And up to 3.0 gr. AA#2 is a wonderful all-around Plinking load under the 130 gr. RNPB bullets. Better still - 3.5 gr. AA#2 under the before-mentioned 102 gr. Lee RNPB (either side of 1100 FPS).

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