Full Wadcutters in the .32 H&R

waco, my buddy Ed has a Ruger single six in 32 H&R Mag & man he can make that gun shoot! One of the most accurate guns he shoot and he has an amazing inventory. He is an exceptional pistol shooter! He uses Commercial Wad cutters ( I think Hornady) they are hollow base and are soft lead but shoots them with really light loads. We both don't have a mould for any .32 cal except mine for .32 acp at 80 gr.
I have to say it is the most accurate caliber I have seen. My opinion is .32 caliber is one of the most accurate and that includes .32 acp !
 
JWFilips said:
waco, my buddy Ed has a Ruger single six in 32 H&R Mag & man he can make that gun shoot! One of the most accurate guns he shoot and he has an amazing inventory. He is an exceptional pistol shooter! He uses Commercial Wad cutters ( I think Hornady) they are hollow base and are soft lead but shoots them with really light loads. We both don't have a mould for any .32 cal except mine for .32 acp at 80 gr.
I have to say it is the most accurate caliber I have seen. My opinion is .32 caliber is one of the most accurate and that includes .32 acp !
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Hope he has a lot of the 32 HB WC's as they haven't made them for 10 years and say they aren't going to make any more.
 
RicinYakima said:
Hope he has a lot of the 32 HB WC's as they haven't made them for 10 years and say they aren't going to make any more.
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Such a shame so many things have fallen by the wayside, because marketing hype buries it under the glitz and glam of "new and improved."

I actually feel bad for those who will miss out on such cool and useful things.

But then, WE can cast whatever the hell we want, so I don't feel bad for me/us.
 
Ric
Ed has such a stock pile of old stuff bought when he was working I can't begin to tell you!
He shoots stuff that I never seen or heard of before and has got in in the 1980 & 90's
He has ammo from the 1970's including cast that he made ....That is when he started casting bullets! & yes he has a lot of old moulds too!
 
RicinYakima said:
Hope he has a lot of the 32 HB WC's as they haven't made them for 10 years and say they aren't going to make any more.
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Ric,

Speer did a run of them last year. I clicked the remind me when they are back in stock on the Midway website and magically after waiting years they popped up one day.

Speer is listing them as unavailable again on their website so the production run must be over and out. But Midway still has stock. I bought 3,000 last year but I should consider putting another 1,000 on my x-mas list rather than new socks....

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1010797838?pid=481857
 
I have had good luck shooting the Lee TLWC with 700X and the Hornady HBWC with WST in my Smith 16 out to 25 yards. Target velocity (powder puff) and accurate. Beyond 25 yards, I have been playing with the 32/20 SWC bullets using Unique and getting fair results.
As my friend tells me, your mileage may vary.
 
I found one of the 6 cavity Lee moulds for the tumble lubed double end wadcutter for my friend Dale53, who some of you probably know. When he retired from casting and shooting, I “inherited“ these moulds and a small box of the bullets he had cast with it. I’m saving them for use in my reconstructed K32 with its original 32 S&W Long chambering. I don’t have any desire to drive wadcutters faster than the target velocities for which they were designed. I also have one of the last boxes (500 rds?) of Hornady HBWCs to be sold at clearance and will use them the same way. I find I prefer semi-wadcutters for plinking, utility, and more serious loadings, so my 32 H&R and 327 FM cartridges generally have a truncated cone or a flattened round nose sticking out of the front of their cases. That’s just the way I roll, and of course YMMV.

Froggie
 
No, but he’s in assisted living and for some strange reason they wouldn’t let him keep his guns! That was why I put inherited in quotation marks.
Froggie
 
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