"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI
Considering that Beretta managed to make the 81 series double-stack .32 Autos hold *less* than the .380 versions, who knows?(I'm sure it has to do with the .32 ACP being a semi-rimmed case).
I'd be surprised if the .32 Auto had enough guts to operate a 92/96 locking system. Maybe with an aluminum slide. Now a blowback upper sort of like the .22 trainer kits, that would probably be doable, but never heard of it.
I've got a couple of Beretta .32's including the Titanium Tomcat and the 81BB, and while they've both been for sale here for awhile, they never generated much interest. Lots of possiblilities with the little .32, but it's a pretty overlooked cartridge here in the US.
I think my father in law has a .32 Ortgies floating around in his sock drawer or whatever. This is a great excuse to have it cut for Novak Lo mounts, cerakoted, and... ok, mags are an issue. Whew, that was a close one!
"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI
Ed Harris 32 bunny gun... Already have a .32 H&R 10” Contender barrel for the SBR. And also have a pre-war 410 just waiting for me to find the right guy to line that barrel for a .32 H&R chambering and some iron sights. This is turning out to be as much fun as the @JCN round gun threads.
So far, I have myself talked out of this one. I have a 10-inch octagon barrel in .22LR for the Contender. Velocitor should be doing ~1300 fps out of it. 40gr HP at that speed should take care of bunnies, etc. nicely. Next step up will be the 10-inch octagon barrel in .38 SPL.
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For the small game getter with some upsize potential, Ive been using .310 or .315 round balls (45-47 grs weight) with 3 grs Unique or Red Dot in 30-30 cases. Its 22 LR std vel quiet. Another way to approach it is a 38/357 with a .360 round ball (71 grs weight) with a yet to be determined light charge in a lever gun. I single load the extra-light loads in the Winchester chambers and push the round trying to feed back down if I want an empty chamber after shooting. The 1873 357 carbine is a particularly pleasing gun to use and handle.
“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