entropy
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You forget the Pedersen Device......makes any M1903 MkI in a .32 ACP rifle.
Whoops; slightly different round, 30-18 Auto.
Whoops; slightly different round, 30-18 Auto.
Older .32 appreciation thread
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Tallball
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Isudave - Field stripping the Mauser is annoying because I do it so infrequently. I will take it out and shoot 50 rounds through it 2-3 times before I clean it (it's just a range toy). By that time a year has probably passed and I have to watch the video all over again.
Gordon
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I been looking for an ARMI .32 acp AR clone for years, never found one yet. I did have the Erma 7.65 luger, the are made of crappy zamak frame with loths of little wire springs but it did work pretty well for a few hundred rounds over a few years. Something broke eventually and I was able to find parts at Numrich before internet and I fixed it and sold it for a couple hundred in early 90s. Mine was flashy chrome plated. Who could turn down a chrome plated .32 baby Luger
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Do you want to sell that ‘paperweight’.? I am in Michigan also.\
Chevelle SS
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Maybe. Send me a PM.
kBob
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Great thread....even if I currently have nothing to show on it.
Man those Saur 38H make you want to jump out of a JU-52 over Holland.....not really. Interesting that our paratroopers that jumped into Holland four years later were armed for bear, yet most German paratroopers actually jumped with only a .32 auto and a fair number with the Saur 38H. There is a story in Don Burgess's Road to Arnhem that was related to him by a Dutchman about a lost German paratrooper basically taking over a Dutch village with his pistol as the Dutch had recently adopted gun control and none of the locals were better or even as well armed. I wonder if it might have been a Saur?
If some one gave me a Ruby with a broken firing pin I would be out in the shop right now with a 10 penny nail, a drill and a set of files.......... bet it would work until I could find better. I have a little Star Modelo S with a home made firing pin in it made form an old shotgun firing pin chucked in a drill press and turned to shape with hand files. My first "real" Gun smithing project.
BTW according to Smith in his "Pistols and Revolvers" when the Nazis rolled into France the most common handgun in the French Army was STILL the Ruby which they had bought during WWI.
Which segways to the cartridge used by the Pedersen Device of 1918 was the same the French adopted for their SACM 35 series handguns and matching SMG.
and about that .32ACP AR "clone" (it was straight recoil operated like the .22LR) I saw one about 1981.....but not since. It used a single stack magazine and the college kid had only the one and could not find a replacement. IIRC it was only eight shot. I under stand it was a modified magazine from some obscure Italian hand gun. I wanted one as a suppressor host, but not bad enough to pay what it would have taken to get the gun from the college kid.
Love that FN 1922 as well.
Thanks for posting this stuff, guys.
-kBob
Man those Saur 38H make you want to jump out of a JU-52 over Holland.....not really. Interesting that our paratroopers that jumped into Holland four years later were armed for bear, yet most German paratroopers actually jumped with only a .32 auto and a fair number with the Saur 38H. There is a story in Don Burgess's Road to Arnhem that was related to him by a Dutchman about a lost German paratrooper basically taking over a Dutch village with his pistol as the Dutch had recently adopted gun control and none of the locals were better or even as well armed. I wonder if it might have been a Saur?
If some one gave me a Ruby with a broken firing pin I would be out in the shop right now with a 10 penny nail, a drill and a set of files.......... bet it would work until I could find better. I have a little Star Modelo S with a home made firing pin in it made form an old shotgun firing pin chucked in a drill press and turned to shape with hand files. My first "real" Gun smithing project.
BTW according to Smith in his "Pistols and Revolvers" when the Nazis rolled into France the most common handgun in the French Army was STILL the Ruby which they had bought during WWI.
Which segways to the cartridge used by the Pedersen Device of 1918 was the same the French adopted for their SACM 35 series handguns and matching SMG.
and about that .32ACP AR "clone" (it was straight recoil operated like the .22LR) I saw one about 1981.....but not since. It used a single stack magazine and the college kid had only the one and could not find a replacement. IIRC it was only eight shot. I under stand it was a modified magazine from some obscure Italian hand gun. I wanted one as a suppressor host, but not bad enough to pay what it would have taken to get the gun from the college kid.
Love that FN 1922 as well.
Thanks for posting this stuff, guys.
-kBob
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I would imagine the muzzle velocity would actually be LOWER coming out of one of those .32 rifles than a 3" pistol!
In another bizarre segue, my Armi Jager .22 did have a broken firing pin- five minutes with a bench grinder and a hardened industrial nail fixed that.
It was one of the most reliable, accurate .22 semi autos Ive ever run across.
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