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Old 04-17-2012, 01:49 PM
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The 32 ACP won't work in the French pistols. The 1935A magazine is too narrow for the diameter of the 32 ACP rim; you can't put 32 ACP cases in the magazine. The 1935S will feed and function with 32 ACPs, but when the round is fired, the rim comes back agains the loaded chamber indicator hard enough that it knocks the indicator vertical. This isn't good, it might break the indicator; it's even less good when you realize that the chamber indicator is what's holding the firing pin in the slide. In our book on the French 1935 pistols, you'll see a picture of me looking down quizically at a 35S with its loaded chamber indicator standing on end.

32 ACPs will work...sorta, if you grind down the semi-rim to the diameter of the base of the case, but feeding and functioning of the mechanism are marginal.

Been there, done that.
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