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I did buy a .32-20 today! More of a Huey gun though..lol
Friday, December 11, 2020, 14:55

I am buying a .32-20 sixgun. Waiting on a call back from one vendor. Just before I pulled the lever on a Italian SAA I spied a nice pre-1942 Colt Official Police 6" in .32 WCF. Basically a later and improved version of the Colt New Army with wider more visible sights. It was also made famous by Barney Fife and his "single" bullet. This one was in the same price range and super clean... But the big woman has not yodeled yet. Of all that over load on historic and customs I really like that M97 at the bottom!

I did buy this Martini Cadet from a guy in Mississippi. It has Redfield peep sights so I can actually have a chance of hitting something. It's been rechamberd to .32-20 from .310 Greener. BUT the fun is the nominal 0.324" groove diameters on Cadets and the challenge to get a .312" bullet to work. LOL in reality you have to add a bit of black magic. (supposedly hollow based .32 Long WC work well).

It just seemed like fun and a sound investment. The real backstory is a time I was at a shooter's outing with Jim Taylor. Such nice fellows all. One new friend allowed me to shoot his Martini Cadet in .310 Greener using heeled 120 gr. bullets at 1150 fps. I think he had modded .327 Federal cases, turned down rims and shortened. We had great fun potting the 100 yd. gong offhand. I was kind of bitten by the bug. It just took a few years to act upon it. It's all about pure shooting enjoyment and fun. The history behind it all is interesting too. Dating back to England having their asses handed to them in large by the Boers in Africa.