32-20 load data help please

[Chuck Edwards]

How about Unique? I just got a bag of brass and Unique is the only revolver powder I have on hand. Also have the Missouri bullets.

My old Lyman/Ideal manuals list 5.5 grains of Unique as a max load with that bullet weight. I'd back that down a bit. OTOH, my Speer #14 lists 3.5 grains as a max load, but that's meant to keep velocity under 1,000 fps from a 7-1/2" barrel to be SASS-legal, so I don't think it's a max pressure load.

I had a 1905 4th Change 5" in .32-20 for a few years. I noticed that fired brass from factory ammo came out of the chambers looking a lot different than when it went in, with the shoulders blown a bit forward. I just treated it like rifle brass and sized it down to the bottom of the neck, AKA partial sizing. It chambered fine that way. Partial sizing is supposed to give longer case life, but I never shot that gun enough to notice a difference.

 

[Alk8944]

I just checked my Lyman and RCBS Cast Bullet Manuals ...
they show data with : TiteGroup , 231 , Red Dot , HP38 ...

But Not One Load with Bullseye ! Sorta odd .

Gary

Yeah, it is odd! Very odd! I have several Lyman manuals going clear back to the early 1950s, and they all have Bullseye data in them for revolver!

 

[27 Man]

Sure is odd. My old Lyman Ideal Handbook No. 39(1953) lists Bullseye, No. 6, 5966 and Unique for .32-20 Revolver.

 

[tops]

4 grs. Unique, 115 gr. bullet, 6 in. barrel, 880 FPS. Larry

 

[Brooks]

I picked this off a colt forum. I have shot 4.3 grs Unique 115 gr load and clocked 875 fps from a 4 inch HE from 1908. I think this is accurate info. The 100grainer with 5.5 gr Unique is what Skeeter Skelton used in his Colt peacemaker.