A .32-20 kind of day
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ธ.ค. 2024
- I brought a couple .32-20 revolvers along with on my trip to the Whittington Center, figured it was about time to break them out of the safe and show them a little love. Both revolvers are from the 1915 era, one is blue and teh other is nickle. Let's see how they do.
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Love all this 32 Caliber Content!
Thanks, I still have another slightly older .32-20 I need to get on video as well as a little itty bitty Beretta .32 ACP. Thanks for watching, I really appreciate it.
Good video Halfmile Thank You 🎬
Glad you enjoyed it
A. 32-20 is the parent case for the 30 carbine. Always liked it, it's an excellent carbine cartridge.
And, back in the day it was responsible for a whole lot of deer on the dinner table.
@@Halfmilesniper yes sir, My eldest brother had a 19th century Winchester lever action in this caliber. Used to take deer with it all over Northern California
Great video I have one that was my great grandfather it's probably over 100yrs old and one of the smoothest easiest best guns I have shot I a while.
Glad you enjoyed this George, thanks for watching.
Thanks for sharing it's a nice change of pace
It really is! It was fun to break those two out of the safe and bring them along. I have a third, it's a little older but the blue is very fragile so I opted to not travel with it. Thanks for watching.
@@Halfmilesniper THANK YOU for sharing
Nice side-arms , thanks for sharing
Glad you like them! I do too even though the old school sights are so difficult to use...makes one wonder how some folks could shoot so well with a standard duty revolver and those little bitty sights!
👍👍 Cool old revolvers, thanks for showing them Halfmile. Hope things are going well for you.
Things are going swimmingly, hope everything is going well for you too. Thanks for watching, I really appreciate it.
My first dealing with the 32-20 was with an old Winchester lever gun. Great little round and fun to shoot.
And an old Winchester lever in .32-20 is my grail gun. A ll I want is a shooter grade. That'll make a nice set.
@@Halfmilesniper There was an older couple that took me in as a son once. it was in 1981 when they bought a lot beside my parents home. I helped him frame a very nice house over a 4 year period. He and his wife would take me out to dinner at least once a month or more often. I was in my late teens at the time and once when visiting their house, they showed me her fathers mint condition octagon barrel Winchester lever gun in 32-20. They had it wrapped and taped in a hand stitch blanket her mother had sewn many decades before. Her father was a German immigrant to this country and bought this rifle shortly after arriving here. When I say mint, I mean just like it rolled off the line. They wanted me to have the rifle but I refused at that moment as I did not feel right to take it and thought it should stay in her family. Man that was one beautiful rifle though. To this day, I wonder where that rifle ended up.
@fls360 wow, that would have been hard to do for me too but you did the right thing. Hopefully whichever family member was the recipient was a true gun person and is being a proper steward.
@@Halfmilesniper can only hope so. Have yourself a fantastic day muh friend!
Cool looking older pistols!
Dang Son, I didn't know you'd been to Benning! I'm about 4 miles from there and have been here since I was 15 when my Dad was still in, so, about two weeks lol. Those are 2 beautiful old wheel guns, I really enjoyed this. Apparently we didn't hook up but we probably ate and drank some of the same food and water, lol, or beer. Great video Mike!
Our Team went and trained with the AMU for a week. They shoot a different discipline but the fundamentals are still the same. They impressed us with the ability at Bullseye and we impressed them with our ability to shoot double action quickly.
For me there as also the special opportunity to trod some of the same ground my Dad did in 1941.
Classic for a reason. 👍
They are pretty classic wheelguns, that's for sure.
Very cool . I have a very old 32 S&W ….how do they compare
I would opine that the difference between .32 S&W and .32-20 is like the difference between .22 short and .22 magnum. .32 S&W is a very mild round and the first guns chambered in it were roughly the same size as the early .22s.
Nice
Thanks Alray, I appreciate you watching.
I have the twin of that nickle gun. Cool video!
Thanks, I apreciate you watching.
@Halfmilesniper Those are a wonderful pair of pistols! I know what you mean about those old Smith and Wessons, they always seemed to have those narrow sights, and 6 o'clock was the norm. Great video with something I did not expect!
Thank you and thanks for watching. Every now and then I pull something a little different out of the safe to share...who knows what'll be next? Heck, I don't even know yet.
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Thank you for watching, I really appreciate it.
I have one just like that
They sure are some neat old guns aren't they...oh the stories some of them could tell.
Thans for watching, I really appreciate it.
Halfmile, thank you for this video. Yours are the first S&W 32-20 revolvers I have seen that match my S&W 32-20 with the large S&W trade mark on the RH side frame and the plowshare grips w/gold dished medallions. Mine has a 6" barrel marked 32-32 WCF CTG on the LH side, patent marking on the top that stop at 1908, and blank on the RH side. No one could give me a production date, but they guessed in the mid-1920s. My serial numbers are only 5 digits in mid-range 58xxx, so I suspected pre-1917, but could never find matching features, until I saw yours in this video. The hand ejector star does have the 2 small pins underneath, which I suspect is the 4th change model, from what I have read.
Would you have any additional details? Cheers!
With a 1908 patent date on the barrel I would say it is a 4th change, which I believe started about 1905. Your 6 inch example sounds very much like my 6 inch (which didn't make in this video), I am pretty sure I also have a 5 digit, or a very low 6 digit serial number and my 6 inch was shipped in 1912. I'll have to double check the serial when I get home tonight.
@@Halfmilesniper Thanks for the reply, this is very exciting news! I would love to see how this fleshes out. Although my revolver is well worn, it does not show signs of abuse, just age and average use. My father kept it in good operating condition, only firing it on rare occasions, as he had a very limited amount of 32-20 ammunition for it. He also had some S&W .32 long to shoot, so as to minimize wear and tear on it as well.
@@gravesclayton3604 As long as you stay away from any .32-20 RIFLE ammo you are pretty safe. There was some heat treating issues early on and the .32-20 is a pretty mild pistol round but the rifle ammo was loaded hotter.
@@Halfmilesniper My father also had the octagon barrel Winchester 32-20 rifle. My sister has that and the 32-20 rifle ammo that my dad had bought. I kept the S&W revolver and his box of .32 S&W longs. I recently bought a new Cimarron 32-20/32 H&R 6-shooter to satisfy my 32-20 itch. My older brother hand-loads ammo, so we may try making some pistol loads for my S&W 32-20.
@@gravesclayton3604 .32-20 brass is fragile, so you have to work slow when reloading. A mild charge of Trail Boss works well, I don't recall the charge weight at the moment though.
I wish I could afford alot more ammo than I have for it though.
.32-20 isn't easy to find and it isn't cheap either. I'm lucky I found some brass and have loaded my own for the guns.
@Halfmilesniper well I need to learn how to load cuz I have kept the brass from what I shot out of it already, I was able to find a business that comes to the local gun shows that sells it.
@@georgeaura I would advise staying away from gun show reloads, a lot of guns have been ruined by folks just cranking out ammo with incorrect powders and or charges. RCBS makes the dies. It will be a difficult cartridge to learn how to reload on, but you can do it, just go slow and study all the reloading info you can.
Those are some old ones ! Dont think the "sights" would help me much ! Tho im due for a new prescription...
LOL, those sights were hard to see even with prescription shooting glasses and corrected to 20/15, LOL
Is it as good as the 32WCF though 😜?
I've heard they are almost identical, lol 😅
@@HalfmilesniperDepends upon whether you're a Marlin fan or Winchester fan. But heard they both work out of a Colt or S&W okay. Imagine that. 💥👍
@@billdye3530 Who'd of ever thunk it?
I'll just stick to my .32 Special 😉
@@HalfmilesniperSure makes you appreciate a good set of Patridge sights. That rear notch is tiny. Would be nice to have a rifle in 32WCF to match. Good shooting Sir. Two great pieces of history there. 💥👍🙏🇺🇸
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