How about a .32 caliber club?

[kscharlie]

Since I first posted my S&W Model 16-4, I have added a few more S&W .32 Hand Ejectors to my collection. The top gun is a repeat of my 16-4, then from right to left is a Model of 1903 1st Change (shipped 1906), Model of 1903 3rd Change (shipped 1927), and a Post War .32 Regulation Police Improved I Frame (shipped 1953). The three I frame revolvers are chambered in .32 S&W Long and are a joy to shoot.

 

[Monac]

kscharlie, one thing you probably already know perfectly well about S&W I-frames is that practically any modern J-frame grip will fit them (unless it is made very specifically for the J-frame square-butt). To me, that is just one more thing that makes them a pleasure to shoot.

 

[JayZee]

KSCharlie has a nice collection of wheel guns. I always liked the I-Frame guns. I see them as a good value for what they are. I have seen a lot of them on GetBroker for inexpensive prices. Maybe I like the ones that need work, but still fair for value. I really want a few I-Frames in .32-20 and Colt Police Positives. Both are really sweet for what they are.

 

[Monac]

I do not think there are any S&W I-frames in .32-20. I think S&W only chambered that in K-frames (Military & Police). It was considered about equal to 38 Special in power, I think, and S&W never made I-frames for that either. Colt Police Positive Specials, though, sure.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

I do not think there are any S&W I-frames in .32-20. I think S&W only chambered that in K-frames (Military & Police). It was considered about equal to 38 Special in power, I think, and S&W never made I-frames for that either. Colt Police Positive Specials, though, sure.

Pretty sure he meant .32 S&W Long, which is sometimes confused with .32-20.

 

[Walkalong]

I REALLY want a Llama in .32ACP.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

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I would be sorely tempted to mill that rib off.....

 

[JayZee]

Pretty sure he meant .32 S&W Long, which is sometimes confused with .32-20.

Thank you! I was!

I thought the M&P was an I-Frame. My bad!! I think it is the I Frame's profile that threw me off. No matter the case, a .32 fan needs a .32 Long and a .32-20 of any and all flavors.

Anyone have experience with a Colt Lightning? or 1873 in the .32-20?
They both intrigue me. Colt being a pump and the 1873 a lever.
Heard mixed things about the Colt, some said solid some said finicky.
Hoping I can find or tune one to be slick and reliable enough to plink with or small game hunt.

What about any .32-20 rifle?
What about the .32-40?
I LOVE the taper on the .32-40, just think it's really neat and oldschool.

 

[JayZee]

I would be sorely tempted to mill that rib off.....

What type of heretic are you? LOL

I can agree with you on that though, hate to molest the gun BUT I see what you mean.

I guess you can always grate Parmesan cheese with the ribbing on it if you are in the field ya know?

 

[antiquus]

Another .32 lover reporting in. Own a P32, CZ50, FEG AP7.65, 6" NEF R-73 in .32H&R Mag, A S&W model 1896 Hand Ejector in .32S&W Long, a Taurus M327 and a S&W 632 in .327.

 

[kBob]

Nothing new for me but at a show yesterday I got to play with a .32 Ortgies and an Astra .32. I had never seen one of the shrunken Astra 400/600 types outside a book before. Both solid little guns and the only thing not steel were the grips. Rather than a mag change you could have used them as bludgeons!

Like both..... but like sleeping alone in the barn less.

-kBob

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Nothing new for me but at a show yesterday I got to play with a .32 Ortgies and an Astra .32. I had never seen one of the shrunken Astra 400/600 types outside a book before. Both solid little guns and the only thing not steel were the grips. Rather than a mag change you could have used them as bludgeons!

Like both..... but like sleeping alone in the barn less.

-kBob

The baby Astra's can command a serious premium.....how much were they asking for it?

The same pawn shop where I have my M57 in layaway has a neato Unique Model L .32 in the display case too for a reasonable sum, but I need to get the big S&W out first, lol.

If it's still there in a month, though.....

 

[kBob]

I want to say a shade over $400 for the Astra but could not swear it. I told the guy that had those jewels I was not buying but just enjoyed the looking and he handed me the ortgies and said "ain't we all?" Nice thing about little local shows is they are not crowded and not much moving and table holders get bored enough to talk. He also had a Femaru M37 like the one posted up stream that jarred a kBob story loose, a pair of Savages and some .25s The worst of which did interest me for nostalgic reasons a 1914 Mauser, but turned me off for astetic reasons it was nickeled.

Let me strongly encourage folks to be nice and polite to folks at tables at gunshows. This was just the latest of a long line of striking up coversations that let me fondling stuff like a 1750's flintlock BREACHLOADER and 1600's manufacture Japanese matchlock and all manner of good stuff. Yes I manage to have to find something nice to say about a lot of junk and pretend to be more interest than I might otherwise be to the sellers "war stories" but it is worth it. For example my shooting bud said it would be a waste of $7 to go to that show. So while I fondled those .32s and got to look at a couple of rifles I had not handled before (one I had not even heard of. a side folding Stevens 28 that was sort of between the tip ups and the Favorites as I now understand, but may have been told wrong.) my bud was trying to hide from his two daughters and their girl buddies dancing in the living room!

Be nice, get treated nice.

-kBob

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

want to say a shade over $400 for the Astra but could not swear it.

Assuming it was in decent condition, that would have been a steal- the last couple of nice ones I saw, they were asking nearly a grand!

The '14 Mauser is on my radar now (in .32, not .25), as is the M34 Beretta. There really were so many neat .32s back then weren't there!

 

[kBob]

The 1934 Beretta is another steel slab of a swiss watch, they are .380acp (9mm Corto) though. Army wanted a "large caliber" so the Italian Airforce got the 1935 in .32acp basically the same design to the point were post war commercial versions of the 1934 now labeled by their cat name were offered in .32acp as I understand it rather than keeping both guns in production.

As I understand the 1934 was not importable under GCA '68 and I think that had more to do with its demise than heavy obsolescence.

When I was a kid paying a youth discount to get into the movies the Usher/Janitor had a Beretta that looked like a 34 or 35 that he claimed was in .22LR, and nickeled, incase someone got too rowdy and the 1934 has looked cool to me every since. As I became a teen I came to hate and loath his flash light more than I loved that pistol though..... "Hey, back row!"

-kBob

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

The 1934 Beretta is another steel slab of a swiss watch, they are .380acp (9mm Corto) though. Army wanted a "large caliber" so the Italian Airforce got the 1935 in .32acp basically the same design to the point were post war commercial versions of the 1934 now labeled by their cat name were offered in .32acp as I understand it rather than keeping both guns in production.

As I understand the 1934 was not importable under GCA '68 and I think that had more to do with its demise than heavy obsolescence.

When I was a kid paying a youth discount to get into the movies the Usher/Janitor had a Beretta that looked like a 34 or 35 that he claimed was in .22LR, and nickeled, incase someone got too rowdy and the 1934 has looked cool to me every since. As I became a teen I came to hate and loath his flash light more than I loved that pistol though..... "Hey, back row!"

-kBob

Quite right, and my bad, the '35 was the .32. There was indeed a postwar .22 version of the design, though I forget the exact model name. I've seen several over the years at gun shows. They used an aluminum frame which was anodized silver and they are turning an interesting shade of green at this point, lol!

Found it, the Model 948, circa 1950:

 

[DannyLandrum]

".32 cal club"

Oh.... I thought this was going to be a thread about non-functioning leverguns in .32 special, .32-20, etc.

 

[ilgac]

Mine;



Left is an Armi Galesi #9 in .32ACP
Top right is an FIE Guardian in .32 S&W Long
Bottom right is a Harrington & Richardson topbreak in .32 S&W.

I also have a nickle plated Iver Johnson topbreak in .32 S&W Long... but I am not sure where I placed it...


Armi Galesi


FIE Guardian


H&R

 

[Monac]

I like that Galesi, ilgac. It may have been an inexpensive gun, but it had very graceful lines. The 32's are not easy to find now. Thanks for putting up good pictures!

In the Revolver subforum, someone has a thread going about a 7 shot 32 revolver they used to own, and they just remembered it was a Kimel. I think your Guardian and the Kimel were just about identical.

 

[ilgac]

That Armi-Galesi is marked 1954 and doesn’t have any import marks that I am aware of.

It was a gift from a non-gun friend of mine who found it when they were cleaning out his wife’s aunt’s house. No one knew she had it and figured it belonged to her husband who died in 1975.

I have the holster and two mags for it.

 

[ilgac]

I forgot about my S&W model 631, a 6 shot stainless J frame chambered in .32 H&R Magnum.

 

[Michael Tinker Pearce]

My Christmas present, now on layaway. Excellent condition, wonderful trigger. Always had a weakness for a 3" J-Frame

 

[If1HitU]

I have one a Jenning .32 auto.