Why do I all of a sudden want a colt army special in .32-20?
Why do I all of a sudden want a colt army special in .32-20?
On the ragged edge of the world I'll roam,
And the home of the wolf shall be my home - Robert Service
I think I posted this a little while ago.Originally Posted by 03RN
"She got a .38 special but I believe it's most too light
She got a .38 special but I believe it's most too light
I got a .32-20, got to make the caps alright"
So why DO you want a colt army special in .32-20?
G-men sniffing around your Speak? East-side Peeps crowding in on your territory? Waxy Gordan put out a hit on you?
Or has Lipsey's new offering just sent you down a new rat hole?
Gringop
PS: Lipsey's would make a great name for a speakeasy, a butcher shop or gang of ne'er-do-wells.
Play that song about the Irish chiropodist. Irish chiropodist? "My Fate Is In Your Hands."
He got a custom Continental
He got an El Dorado too
He got a 32 gun in his pocket full a fun
He got a razor in his shoe
And he's bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog
Just makes sense.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
Because underneath that Marine exterior you have a modicum of discernment and taste?
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits - Mark Twain
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy / Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
I once had a Winchester 1892 in .32-20, with a terrible dark bore like a gutter pipe. Bit of a mixed bag. I bet it’d be fun in a revolver. The ammunition situation was garbage 20 years ago, what’s it like now?
I would also like a vintage 32-20 revolver, but the cartridge appears to have been another casualty of the pandemic ammo crunch. From what I have read, reloading the bottleneck case is difficult. Therefore, I have held my fire.
That is strange. You should want a .41.
"Gunfighting is a thinking man's game. So we might want to bring thinking back into it."-MDFA
Beware of my temper, and the dog that I've found...
I had a S&W Model 1905 4th Change in .32-20 for a while. It wasn't that hard to load for, you just had to treat it like a bottlenecked rifle cartridge. The chambers on mine were slightly different than factory ammo; the fired cartridges came out with the shoulder blown forward from the factory location...so I partial-sized them to fit the chambers. It was decently accurate. I killed a snake with it.
"Everything in life is really simple, provided you don’t know a f—–g thing about it." - Kevin D. Williamson
32-20 Blues is a great song.
A K frame S&W 1905 or a Colt Police Positive Special would probably be my preferred revolver for a 32-20.
Good to know it’s not impossible to load. Maybe one day I’ll be a sophisticated enough in my reloading skills and setup to handle it and dip my toe in the 32-20 world.
I dont think its strange.
Have a look on the castboolit and cowboy action forums regarding reloading 32-20, but I believe like 44-40 and 38-40, using Starline brass helps ease the reloading issues of thin necks.
The brass is hit or miss, if you want some either put it on backorder, or be ready to jump immediately when it becomes available.
A 32-20 model 92 would be a lot of fun.
“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.”
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