.32-.20 Queston

[RayGT3]

Just purchased a minty 4" fourth change 32-20 c. 1920. Really don't know much about this round except a lot of lever action rifles used it. What would a vintage round be configured as and also what would a contemporary round look like.

Tnks,
Ray

 

[RayGT3]

Just purchased a minty 4" fourth change 32-20 c. 1920. Really don't know much about this round except a lot of lever action rifles used it. What would a vintage round be configured as and also what would a contemporary round look like.

Tnks,
Ray

 

[keppelj]

I also have a 4th change this gun which I inherited from my mother, great little gun and quite accurate. Eventually I'll load for it. The round is slightly bottle necked about an inch and a half long. You can buy either lead or jacketed bullets for it and find loading data in all of the contemporary load manuals.

 

[walnutred]

For an older revolver in this caliber I do not think there is any reason to use anything other than lead bullets. I'd order in some lead RNFP, non gas check bullets of around 115 gns from one of the suppliers often mentioned hear. Go to the Hodgdon web site and look op their cowboy loads for the Colt pistol and go from there. Don't accidentally use the Ruger load data.

 

[BUFF]

I use a home-cast SWC bullet with a gas check that weighs about 115 grains sized and lubed. It's from an old Lyman mold I bought used in about 1980. I shoot it over some Unique. All my .32-20 brass is Winchester. The late Skeeter Skelton, gun writer extraordinaire and mentor to many of us here, used 4.5 grains of Unique under a cast 115 grain bullet. I tried it, found it to be great and shoot roughly to the point of aim in the few handguns and one lever gun I have owned in this chambering, and never experimented afterwards.

There is some warm data published. Don't use if for the K frame S&W .32-20's, it's too hot.