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What bullet do you use in a 32 special? Book says it needs a .321 bullet, and the Sierria manual says they don't make a .321 bullet. If Sierria doesn't I doubt many of the others do either, thye cover the market pretty well. With a cast bullet you could make 8MMs and size them to .321, but my friend wants Jacketed bullets, and some thing that will expand. Ive got a partial box of 150 grain .323 bullets 8MM will they work without too much pressure? Or is this a cast only rifle at this point
Hornady makes 2 32Win Special bullets.
Well, lots of great cast bullets, and 32 win is a cast bullet machine!!!
I use the Accurate 32-180A and RCBS 32-170FN. Both shoot equally well. I tried an NOE 8mm bullet (SC325-180-RF) but the nose diameter is way oversize and jambs into the rifling before coming even close to chambering. Since I already had the 8mm mold on hand for my 8x57 it was no loss. I size to .323 for all the above in my Miroku Winchester 94.
I'd say that cast is the only easily available bullet you are going to find for this oldie day in and day out. But at the moment MidwayUSA has two Hornady bullets in stock for the 32 Special. There is really nothing negative about cast though as cast will give full performance potential of the cartridge and once you have a mold in hand you have infinite bullets available.
I have a 4 boxes of hornady #3210 170gr flat point .321 diam. bullets. These are "the" jacketed bullet for 32spcl. They are for sale.
When I shot jacketed in my 32 WS I bought the Hornady FTX bullets. They are a pointed bullet with a plastic tip so that they can be loaded in a tubular magazine. Very accurate.
I use the SAECO #305, which looks like a fat 311041, it casts out to .314". Paper patched up to .325". It's a slip fit in a fired case and shoots incredibly well in my old Marlin.
I am most fortunate to have a few Winchester levers chambered in .32 Winchester Special. My favourite is one produced -- ser. no. 1,513,xxx --in 1948 -- the year of my birth! My two favourite bullets for this calibre are:Quote:
Originally Posted by ebb
Ideal 321-297 .32 WIN SP .327 130gr. Gas Check single cavity – #295 top punch
Ideal 321-427 .32 WIN SP .327 145gr. Gas Check two cavity mould – #470 top punch
At 75 yards, the 321-427 seems to always provide me smaller groups. Imho, they're both great moulds for this calibre. Note that I load these to the 2nd from lowest velocity printed in the Lyman Cast Bullet book.
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I use .323 sized boolits, I have an RCBS 32-170 Flat Nose Gas Check mold. I am currently shooting a 185 grain .323 Flat Nose(FN) Gas Check(GC) from Matts's Bullets. I also have used 200 grain LBT FN GC and 200 grain NEI FN GC, both sized to .323. I have used both the Hornady and Speer 170 grain at .321 on game with little difference in performance. The Speer flies a tic flatter than the Hornady FN, about the same as the Hornady 165 Gummy Tip. I use 16-18gr 5744 under Matt's 185 for fun, Leverevolution under the Jacketed 170's can get over 2300+ fps in most rifles. My scoped Marlin 336's, 24" shoot under 1.5 MOA at 200 yards with the Matt's 185 sized .323. I have some 'cowboy' plain base bullets, 155 grain .322's and .323's that shoot over light load of Universal for under 100 yards, accurate and very pleasant. The RCBS 32-170 FN might be the best .32 Special mold, but Accurate Bullets has a bunch of good designs, most 150-200 grain flat nose bullets shoot well.
.323's work just fine. My .32 is a Remington m/14 in that caliber. Used the .321's and 3's and could tell no diff. Ordered Arsenal's .321 170, gc, shoots great either gas checked or paper patched.
I load the Hornady 170gr FP for both my Marlin 36 and my Dad's Win 94. It works well in both rifles.
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Speer makes a dandy for the 32 also at 170grains. Because I knew I wouldn't need alot of cast for my rifle, a Marlin 336A, Instead of buying a mold I went to Montana bullet works and got a few hundred LBT LFNgc at 170 grains. Bought them as cast so I can size and lube them on my own. Both these bullets shoot very well to dead deer at anybody's 100yds. So yes, there is plenty of 32's out there jacketed and cast.
Crash87
My buddy ended up using RCBS 32-170-FN.
That mold has been very good in my Carbine. I would like to find a rifle (length) replacement for shooting lever silhouette.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bazoo
I load with Aliant power pro 2000, get 2456 fps. I found the Hornady ftx to explosive at close range at that speed. I get same velocity with speer 170 and Hornady rn. Each hit close enough for no adjustments. The speer so far seems best on game. With the Hornady ftx I blew the whole shoulder out of a deer at 25 yards. It looked like a grenade went off. I will not be doing that again.