>32 S&W Long wadcutters with Mag brass

[ShootnSlo]

I have a few .32 H&R Mag cases, and recently purchased a .32 Long H&R 732 for a grandson. I'd like to introduce him to reloading with this revolver. Wadcutters seem to be on my short list because they're multi-purpose. I'm open to recipes for the Long cartridges but wondered if seating some 98 grain Hi-Tek wadcutters in those H&R Mag cases would help with better alignment of the bullet to the forcing cone. The plan was to seat the WC bullets in the Mag cases to the depth they would be if in a Long case. probably just a medium to firm taper crimp on the case was my thinking. Yes, the bullets would be seated *below* the case mouth, and I would need to use some kind of homemade bullet seater, probably.

I figured I might not be the first handloader to think of this. A quick search of the site revealed one guy who had mentioned it, but I in a different topic, which I couldn't find again. Fellow readers, the search produced 110 pages of results!

Any comments or suggestions?

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

I have a few .32 H&R Mag cases, and recently purchased a .32 Long H&R 732 for a grandson. I'd like to introduce him to reloading with this revolver. Wadcutters seem to be on my short list because they're multi-purpose. I'm open to recipes for the Long cartridges but wondered if seating some 98 grain Hi-Tek wadcutters in those H&R Mag cases would help with better alignment of the bullet to the forcing cone. The plan was to seat the WC bullets in the Mag cases to the depth they would be if in a Long case. probably just a medium to firm taper crimp on the case was my thinking. Yes, the bullets would be seated *below* the case mouth, and I would need to use some kind of homemade bullet seater, probably.

I figured I might not be the first handloader to think of this. A quick search of the site revealed one guy who had mentioned it, but I in a different topic, which I couldn't find again. Fellow readers, the search produced 110 pages of results!

Any comments or suggestions?

I think if you are going to use these as a teaching tool you need to do things by-the-book to the Nth degree Otherwise you run the risk that it becomes a lesson in what not to do.

I would save the H&R brass for mags and get/use some .32Long brass in the 732.

JMHO-YMMV

 

[ShootnSlo]

Y'know, GeoDudeFlorida, I never thought of all the bad things I might inadvertently be teaching with that!
I'll use the Long brass for now. Standard loading data, even if they are all 15 years old.

He's having a ton of fun with the RN PPU I purchased. Enough cases to get started, too.

 

[WestKentucky]

Load the mag brass with a medium range load from the 32 long data. If it shoots dirty then increase slightly until you get a clean burn.

 

[AJC1]

Fortunecookie45lc has a video talking about exactly what you reference. If you want to be by the book load to the shorter caliber spec and oal. It might be a little advanced for a first lesson imo, but if you couple that with trimming it could be reeled back in. Turning a seating stem flat and thinner than the bullet diameter isn't rocket science but again above first load introduction.

 

[Walkalong]

This is a 98 Gr WC in .32 Long brass, but it works just as well in .32 Mag brass.

I use AA #2, WST, or N-310, but Competition or Bullseye will work as well, most likely others.

 

[fxvr5]

Why not just load it flush with the H&R mag brass? That works just fine.