To fire up this old thread ... I had recently gifted a .32-44 NM3 Target to a friend that is a cowboy shooter and reloader. With that gift, I loaned him the correct ball and bullet molds, an Ideal .32-44 hand loader tool and about 200 .32-44 cases I accumulated of the past 30 years.
He came back the next day with about 10 test loads of .32-44 Gallery loads with .323 ball. We tried out the loads on a felled tree in my yard.
My first venture in firing a .32-44 Target proved impressive, even with gallery loads. Gallery or not, you wouldn't want to be standing at the wrong end of that barrel.
Of course this friend was pleased by the gift of the .32-44 but I advised him of the "hook" in the package. I wanted 100 x .32-44 black powder gallery rounds back with refills whenever I needed (offering to pay for supplies). That was a good deal for both of us, I feel.
This same friend has worked in gun shops his entire life. He has sent referrals to me, over the years, of a customer of his gun shop looking to sell or buy a high grade old S&W that his shop does not deal with.
He never asked for anything in return so the gift of a NM3 Target .32-44 was my pleasure. Only bad thing is that now leaves me with only 3 other New Model 3 .32-44 Targets
