Magnum Wheel Man
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been playing with these old top breaks & Trailboss powder with both the 32 & 38 S&W's... my original expiriements were using Hornady .315" round balls for the 32's...
... I reciently bought some Hunters Supply 76 grain .313" flat points... I had to bell the brass more for the bullets over the round balls, & adjust the seater die... the case is slightly buldged where the bullet is ( I could maybe use a slightly bigger expander plug ) but the loaded rounds slip easily into all of my 32 S&W chambers except one... a Hopkins & Allen Safety Police Snubbie, that has been shooting exceptionally well with my round ball loads ( & I mean really exceptionally well )... I have a couple other safety police models of similar vintage, that these bullet loads easily slip into...
so, was it really that common to have guns with different chamber diameters on these guns built around 1910 or so ??? when guns that would have come off the same tooling line had bigger chambers ???
I'm not complaining how the one with tighter chambers shoots, but because it's a snubbie, I was hoping it would should the bullets as well as it does the balls...
... maybe this isn't really that uncommon, as I reciently got a pair of new Ruger Montados that had tight cylinder chambers...
... I reciently bought some Hunters Supply 76 grain .313" flat points... I had to bell the brass more for the bullets over the round balls, & adjust the seater die... the case is slightly buldged where the bullet is ( I could maybe use a slightly bigger expander plug ) but the loaded rounds slip easily into all of my 32 S&W chambers except one... a Hopkins & Allen Safety Police Snubbie, that has been shooting exceptionally well with my round ball loads ( & I mean really exceptionally well )... I have a couple other safety police models of similar vintage, that these bullet loads easily slip into...
so, was it really that common to have guns with different chamber diameters on these guns built around 1910 or so ??? when guns that would have come off the same tooling line had bigger chambers ???
I'm not complaining how the one with tighter chambers shoots, but because it's a snubbie, I was hoping it would should the bullets as well as it does the balls...
... maybe this isn't really that uncommon, as I reciently got a pair of new Ruger Montados that had tight cylinder chambers...
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