Anyone ever shoot or load for .32 Win. Special?
One of the original American 8mm's. Of course the .32-40 WCF predated the Special, and the .303 Savage is also .321" bullets. Interestingly also my little .310 Martini, .321".
I'm still researching that odd 1:16" rifling twist...
Kase and I shot a model 94 at the cowboy shoots we put on
at our shop in Florida. A shoot for charity. Kase and I used a well used but still nice model 94 in 32 Win Spl. Colleen used her Dad's Winchester model 71. She shot it at every target and even with it knocking her back a bit she kept using it. I think almost 2 full boxes of 348.
I was looking at a nice pre-war 1920’s example
It was just a pretty and pleasing gun to behold. I don’t have a use for it I just like it. The 1:16 twist is said to be better for black powder and cast bullet shooting. It was an upgrade to the .32-40 black powder round but could use smokeless too like the .30-30 (actually designed completely around smokeless powder). There is not much difference in performance the 170 gr. at 2200 fps.
32 Special
Marlin 336A Id have to look but I thought late 50's mfg. Not D&T for a scope so a williams peep are the sights. Load was a lbt 170gr LFNgc from MBWorks. IMR 3031 28gr for 2028fps, my 2nd load equal to but I have more 3031 is RL-7, 25gr for 2100fps. Took this deer at 80yds, a step and a fall. ![[image]](images/uploaded/202602170132366993c5340a776.jpg)
I've taken deer with cast in 30.30's also, No real world difference in the 2, but interesting history on why, and, no one really knows as the why, much speculation, but take it for what its worth. Still a good story.