Results of slugging a few .32ACP bores

[spencerhut]

I was having issues making good, reliable .32ACP ammo with lead bullets so I went back to basics and slugged a few bores.
Quite a variation in bore sizes. No wonder I was having issues with the CZ's chambering & working properly with the lead bullet loads. The Remington 51 is fairly new and I had not tried my reloads out of it yet.
It looks like the lead bullets for .32ACP will need to be made in a .310 batch and a .314 batch. Pretty sure my mold drops them at .3135'ish

 

[film495]

If I remember correctly, I had to size down .32 ACP bullets to get the cartrides to chamber correctly in a CZ-70. The smaller bullets may also have needed a smaller expander, but I don't recall exactly, but there was a 2nd issue that came up. Oh, yea - and the expander would not flair it correctly as it was for a different cartrdige, so - I got a universal Lee expander to flair the case necks.

 

[Bfh_auto]

Powder coat will make up the difference in the one batch.
The other one could be lubed. Then it would be easy to identify.

 

[spencerhut]

Powder coat will make up the difference in the one batch.
The other one could be lubed. Then it would be easy to identify.

I use Hi-Tek coating on all my handgun bullets. I could properly mark the boxes and / or use two different coating colors. I coat them before I size them so it should be simple enough to keep them differentiated.