Had my first squib load today

This is the first I'm hearing about articles in magazines talking about a low power small game load for survival and I tell you what, that's exactly the reason I got into the .32 caliber handguns and soon the .327 Henry Big Boy.

I find .22 LR guns to be too picky with ammo while even with the .32 top break H&R that has horrible sights and a heavy trigger and a pitted bore, it was outshooting my .22 pistol at the range yesterday.

The .32 and .327 has all but killed any interest I have in .22 LR. I can load .327 guns with .32 Long as light as .22 for small game and load the .327 to max and it's nearly as powerful as .357, has little less recoil, and flatter trajectory.
 
I'd bet if you upped the charge of Bullseye some they would shoot fine.

I mostly use Red Dot for round balls and for fire lapping with low velocity rounds in rifles (cast lead bullets only).
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The first tool I have available is the feeler gage and then it becomes one of those 'and then' moments; and then I get the scales out and or dippers, I have three sets of dippers, one set is red, another is yellow and the other set is black.

F. Guffey
 
Originally Posted by Roland Thunder
I recently bought a Kel-Tec P32, I am thinking about getting some dies for .32acp. Where can you buy brass for .32acp
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There are plenty of places on-line but you can also get 32ACP brass from Bull's Eye on Crogan St in Lawrenceville. Brass is going to be the easy part. Finding bullets is going to be the hard part.
 
At least your squib was from tinkering with a unique load. All THREE:eek: of mine were from no powder. Projectile didn't exit the chamber far enough to load another round and I had NO blast or smoke. I literally heard nothing but "click." I have instituted a number of QC checks in my reloading process.
 
I have instituted a number of QC checks in my reloading process.
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I read the famous last word statement all the time: "It must have been a double charge" or "I do not know what happened, the light through the barrel was shut off" etc.

A disciplined reloaders knows the weight of the case, bullet and powder charge and then there is the weight of the primer. And then there are those reloaders that do not have a clue, they do not know if they have the correct powder charge, they do not know the weight of the case and they do not know the weight spread on the bullets.

For me there is nothing entertaining about pulling the trigger without a hint of what is about to happen. I have enough cases to match the weight of the case so after I load a few hundred rounds it means nothing to me to weight the loaded rounds.

QC checks in my reloading process
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Again, a shooter standing next to me at the range could not pull the trigger, he could not open the cylinder he could not pull the hammer back because his Model 66 was locked up with a bullet. I put my stuff up in an effort to help him, I drove the bullet back into the case and then emptied his cylinder. The first thing he did was start shoving rounds into his cylinder. I wanted him to convinced me his reloads were safe and the missing powder from one case did not get added to the next cases, and all he did was get mad. Long story.

F. Guffey
 
F. Guffey said:
A disciplined reloaders knows the weight of the case, bullet and powder charge and then there is the weight of the primer. And then there are those reloaders that do not have a clue, they do not know if they have the correct powder charge, they do not know the weight of the case and they do not know the weight spread on the bullets.

For me there is nothing entertaining about pulling the trigger without a hint of what is about to happen. I have enough cases to match the weight of the case so after I load a few hundred rounds it means nothing to me to weight the loaded rounds.
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I knew that I had loaded some with 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 grains of Bullseye, but I didn't keep track of which they were. My guess is that the squib was a 1.0 load because as I shot the rest of these uncommon handloads and didn't have another squib with them.

Bottom line is for this load there is no "correct powder charge" because no currently printed manuals exist that offer data for using round balls as projectiles. It's called trial and error and I'm a trail blazer and I knew the load was so light the gun wasn't going to blow and that was good enough for me.

After shooting these loads and paying I forget what for the round balls, it's probably cheaper and better to buy 75 grain lead bullets and using them instead. There is established data out there for such a bullet.
 
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