.32 S&W SHORT AND .32 S&W LONG START TO FINISH. 

agreed historical, accurate and was a very effective pocket pistol cartridge, i would love to have an old top break in .32 s&w.

Do you think small charges of smokeless powder is ok in the old top breaks? Some were made in the black powder era.

@@rickomatic2012 I will work up using my chronograph until I get to original factory FPS. Than check for accuracy. So far they have been very accurate. I have a couple 38S&W too. Fun little cheap projects.

@@rickomatic2012 Frontier western heritage and marksmle have and excellent video on just that subject.

Where can I find 32 s&w short ammo at. I can't seem to find none here in North Carolina.

It appears tha you have the lyman 310 reloading hand tool very populart in the 19th and 20th century.

@@leadbullets4life No, I do have half a dozen of the lyman 310 tools and various sets of dies for them. I have been collecting them for a long time. You are probably thinking of the older Ideal tool that had the mold built into the end of the reloading tool. Lyman bought the Ideal company around 1900 and they redesigned the tool dropping the molds and threading the tools for changeable dies. There was a series of design changes over many years. The tool I have is an old fashioned steel bullet mold. Probably made around 1875. The handles and mold are one piece of steel or should I say two pieces joined at a hinge. Each side has half a mold cavity. Think of a double cavity mold but one cavity is drilled out to be a shell holder and the other side of that cavity has a screw adjustable primer ram in it. I have never seen one like it before. I will let you know how it goes once I cast some bullets and start working with it. I have a 1849 Colt. I will try the bullets in that first. Thanks for your reply.

@@johnndavis7647 im curious to know it's design and origin.

What is a rimmed cartridge

@@craigfinley2507 early self contained cartridges were sometimes referred to as flanged that is they had a wide thin rim. They were rim-fire the 44 Henry . The 22 rimfires started about that time and they are still with us today.

Lawrence i have a video called ruger warrenty and i had a major issue with my sp-101 in .357 federal magnum while back.

@@leadbullets4life Watched your review of your warranty repair. My experience was close to yours except I received a test target photocopy. I've owned many Rugers over the years and they are built like tanks. This is the first one that had a problem.

@@lawrencehudson9939 my 1st ruger was the gp 100 back in 89 i payed 333$ for it and kept it for 22 year before selling it due to hard times.

That 32 Colt must be a old model, but that is a nice cartridge you don't find those anymore or hear about the 32-20 is your gun a revolver or pistol

Revolver Colt Army Special.@@craigfinley2507

did grandpa have a top break revolver or swing out model?

@@leadbullets4life swing out with pearl handle

@@douglaskirk1087 awsome i would love an original colt or s&w from the 30's or 40's your very lucky to have it, i live in cmmiefornia and the ruger was the only revolver in the 32 i could get.

@@leadbullets4life I don't know the exact year but my dad said grandpa was offered a hefty price for it in the sixties.

@@douglaskirk1087 do you know the make and model of the gun?

thanks 4 watching Dave, so Dave can you go out to the public lands to go shooting or do your public ranges have limited days and hours?

it's optional i never ever lubed before resizing.

@@leadbullets4life okay thank you!

the 32 acp seat die has a 2 step crimping stage, as you push the shell up to seat the bullet the 1st step taper crimps and all the way is the roll crimp step. the 32 acp die is very versatile, as far as your seating stem goes mine is actually a lee brand and is shaped accordingly, my expander came from leeprecision.com, i used a .309 bullet sizer die to crimp the 32 shorts thanks 4 watching.

@@leadbullets4life thank you!

thank you cory happy mother's day.

lead bullets 4 life Happy mother’s day

Always happy to help out thanks4 watching

Just to let you know i have a video on the lee 100gn bullet as well.

for a roll crimp what you do is use the seating die to crimp your cases there is an instep inside the seating die and once reached you can adjust for desired crimp,and the mold came from an RCBS -84gn mold.

@@leadbullets4life thank you!

Just like 38/357

@@leadbullets4life Duh. Of course. (face palm)

during the making of this video i didn't i didn't have a expander plug in my ebay dies so i had to use my universal expander die set to flare out the case mouth, also the .32 long dies is too long for the .32 S&W shorts so you are correct in your observation, but to this date i have the correct expander plug thanks to lee precision and a seperate die set for the .32 S&W shorts, thanks for watching.

I use a western molds 145gn hollow based round nose designed for 36 cap and ball revolvers, the mold works for 38 special, 38 s&w the diameter is .357 but the hollow skirt will expand up to .375 cal. So it's perfect for the 38 s&w I make home made 38 short shells out of 38 spl cases, lee sell the 38 colt short cutter die.

and where to buy a mold for casting bullets? 38 S&W double action?

@@michalmesaros1116old western molds.com

Yes bullets for the long and short are the same .312"-314"

Abit heavy but will work, I've seen cast bullets up to 80gns work in a 32 auto....he'll I've fire 132gn cast bullets put of my .380 acp. With no I'll effect.

Yes sir 3.3gns works for me.

if its a .32 H&R man or a.327 mag they are perfectly safe to shoot, see my shooting video.

Yup, you can.

It smells like black powder but the guy I bought them from said they were smokeless

the orignal .32 s&w was loading for the s&w top break revolvers and they did come in black powder, smokeless powder didn't come out until 1884 by a french chemist.

The short shells don't reach all the way up..I use a 32 app seating die to format the crimp which is what you get in the lee resizing kit.

Pre-covid/lock-down/rioting/2020 it was something like: $0.08 for a 77 grain lead cast projectile (I got mine from hunter's supply) $0.18 (optional) for fresh brass cases (starline makes these) $0.02 for powder charge. A pound of bullseye will load something like 2500 rounds of 32 h&r/s&w long. $0.03 for primer. Altogether, roughly 13cpr if you are re-using your own cases, 31cpr for the initial batch if you had to buy new cases. If you cast your own bullets, could probably get something like 7-8cpr buying or collecting scrap lead.

@@Rowrin Thanks

where?

It will be just fine for top breaks and modern revolvers.

@@leadbullets4life I have a 1967 32 H&R could it handle it

@@leadbullets4life

@@craigfinley2507 h@r is a very sturdy revolver.

@@leadbullets4life it is all steel I think it weigh 20 oz

all my .32 brass was purchased thru diamond brass so i save all my brass for reloading purposes, it's not a common caliber I.e..9mm 38 spl or 45 acp which brass is everywhere. the big box store do carry it such as Cabelas or Basspro.

@@leadbullets4life thank you. Yeah, I tried all those places and they do not carry it in my area.

@@dn.romanosslockett5182 now you see why i had to reload and cast my own.

Aaah at first I didn't understand the question, but I sent them up to be case flared to add a bell to the case for easy loading of the bullet, and I had lots of fouling from the lubed bullets so I powder coated them to stop the fouling and the bullet is simular to a jacketed bullet.

@@leadbullets4life do you mean hard cast

@@leadbullets4life you mean the red bullet that's the coated one right. But you didn't coat all of them did you

@craigfinley2507 yes it's because pure lead is too soft to with stand 400 degrees.

@@craigfinley2507 so this was a 50/50 mix.

Yes in europe just after the turn of the 20th century many makers came out with the velo dog revolver which fired a 25 ACP round to ward off dogs chasing you while riding your bike.

@@leadbullets4life am looking for stop & kill capability, because at very close range other caliber rounds may cause over penetration, lets consider a most common situation at dog park where a large agressive breed attacks & grab a smaller pet, in that tussle, such small caliber is better to shoot those animals to defend own pet & self

@@atharvatoskar87 I was once in that situation the neighbors dog attacked my mother's Pomeranian I was on my way to the National Forest I have my 30-30 with me at a time but was not loaded if push came to shove that 3030 would have been handy to this patch that large dog behind me was just dirt on the street and I think a 30-30 soft point was splattered on the street anyways it would have ricocheted but at the same time your pet Could Be In Harm's Way if you're not a a good shot a large knife or even a 22 revolver with a long barrel or automatic with a long barrel with a soft lead bullet would have done the job

Never needed to I've always had 4 other powders on hand i believe trail boss is designed more for cartridges with a large volume of air space to fill and to reduce position sensitivity the .32 s&w is already short to fill up with most fast burning powders.

Do you need loaded 32 shorts?my loads are smokeless powder loadings.

If you would sell shorts that would be great looking for 32 short smokeless powder would pay good money on some

Well there it is

you can use short cases to get higher velocity! with out high pressure, my 1.7 of red dot will push a 102gn cast bullet 800FPS, i now use 1.3gn of red dot to put it in the 650 FPS range, you can use either both the .32 s&w dies or the .32 ACP dies to load both and up to .32H&R magnum.

Powder coating bullets is not a new thing it's been around for about 6 or 7 years now and it's pretty popular among Reloaders Federal makes a nylon version and the fact that you're using a powder coat instead of metal has less wear and tear on the barrel though no substitute for a jacketed bullet it basically keeps the lead and Barrel from touching each other and still get the performance from any kind of jacket or lead bullet also reduction and Lead fumes.

@@leadbullets4life I was digging into it a little and it looks good. I cleaned up and lubed my Grandmothers .32 long and thought about shooting it. Maybe get a handloader and save the brass. It's one of those pistols you could see sitting on a shelf in a feed and seed store with an 8 dollar tag on it back when I was a kid.

@@abee3515 LOL... i love that image of a window display item with old paper tag hanging on it like was once politically correct for its day, there's and old episode of the little rascals where Spanky and his big brother went window shopping for their mothers birthday, and Spanky says lets buy that gun and Spankys big brother says what would ma do with a gun and spanky says...shoot papa!! lol,,of course that wouldn't fly today.

@@leadbullets4life On Archie Bunker he called his daughter little girl and she was ranting about gun violence and Archie says would it make you feel any better if they was shoved outta windows little girl?

@@abee3515 that sounds like Archie alright.