Great thread and cool article. I always enjoy Ed Harris articles. The downside is now I want a Colt 1903 in .32 ACP. And a .32 ACP Contender barrel.
In many ways, this article reminds me of a "Gun Digest" article by Francis E. Sell, who expounded upon the virtues of the .25-20 and .32-20 in a Marlin lever action rifle. Mr. Sell worked as a timber cruiser during the Great Depression and often fed himself with the game harvested with his Marlin rifles, especially the .25-20. Amazon has his book on deer hunting. https://www.amazon.com/Deer-Hunters-.../dp/B0006BLZIY
To see if it would be worth the money to commission custom irons for the .380 EZ, I hiked out to a clearing with the dog:
The night sights on my Performance Center gun drive the dot. At seven yards, the dot covers the entire 3" circle, nevermind the rest of the sight. This was the best I could muster while kneeling unsupported and very rusty with this pistol. First group about 3" then down to 2" and a bit under. I bet serrated black fixed sights with a steep front could do much better with my eyes and at further distances.
Will now definitely be contacting some sight makers for something a bit thinner with 15-25 yard zero as previously posted. Worst case, I score some base model sights, black out the dots, and file the front to regulate to my flat nose handloads which clock about 950fps from this bottomfeeder. Having typed that, my wife prefers the night sights to the plain on her base model. I can start off by just swapping them around.
Edit with note to self: Also need to contact Ameriglo. The Defoor pattern sights would be nearly ideal for this application. A reasonably fine but still readily visible and trackable front and well proportioned rear. Also relatively inexpensive. They just need to make them for more than GLOCKs.
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Because my little terrier brain won't let go of things until I find answers, I did find a .32 ACP JHP bullet. Graf's has Prvi Partisan 71gr JHP in stock. Stands to reason it would be a Euro company still making them, since .32 is widely considered appropriate for civilians over there. Also popular with unsavory elements and their pocket pistols, I understand.
Also stumbled onto http://www.corbins.com/ Let the bad ideas roll...
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Also as a requisite .32 NAA Hipster...these are in my reloading box. Waiting for me to have time for reloading.
And I'm not saying I'm on the look out for a Beretta 82BB plus basically every other .32 that was also chambered in .380 to convert...but I've priced chamber reamers and done the math. I need to convert four guns to make it worth it...
I had one of the Colt 1903 32s. I thought it would make a great small game gun, but mine wasnt accurate enough (or I wanst able to shoot it well enough?) for bunnies at the ranges I commonly shot them at in Arizona, I fell back to the Smith K-22 and various centerfire revolvers.
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
This makes me want an updated, LTT-esque version of the Beretta 81 even more.
Matt Haught
SYMTAC Consulting LLC
https://sym-tac.com
I ditched my 84 because it was one of the later ones with the "improved" safety, but it still had a distinct detent click into a "not on safe yet" position that would allow it to fire.
I seem to have an idea that French police at some point carried a 92 variant in .32 Auto (although I could be mistaken and it was really the little guns). Imagine how many rounds a full-size B92 in .32 Auto could hold...
There's also this DOA cartridge that I still think was a good idea:
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/7.92%C3%9724mm
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