Gallery load experience???

[Hatchdog]

Is there a Coastal Farm near you? A while back I was in ours for another reason and saw they had several boxes of 32 auto ammo. I asked to buy 3 boxes. They wanted me to buy all they had because they didn't have any demand for it. I got one heck of a good deal!

No Coastal Farm stores around here but that sounds like my kind of store. I have several boxes of 32 acp and I should probably just shoot up a box to get some brass. As you know, 32 acp ammo is stupid expensive.

Looking them up, ya it looks like Coastal Farm is mostly a Westside thing, plus Yakima and Winatchee. I haven't followed 32 acp pricing, so have no feel for how expensive it is, but it doesn't surprise me. I have two 32 auto pistols, both over 100yrs old. I don't shoot them often. Both are hand-me downs along with some really old ammo.

I don't know about the stores in WA, but the 2 I've been to in OR are 'candy stores'. Yup I think you'd like them and not just for the gun desk. Power tools and farm supplies too.

Costal Farm sound a lot like the North 40 stores we have here. Talk about a kid in a candy store….

https://north40.com/?utm_term=north%204 ... 4e3e2e8f52

[Mags]

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Costal Farm sound a lot like the North 40 stores we have here. Talk about a kid in a candy store….

https://north40.com/?utm_term=north%204 ... 4e3e2e8f52

I see that. Except they don't seem to have any 32acp.

[Hatchdog]

My late friend got me into "cheap" loads for an old 32 revolver that I had. We bought a couple of 12 ga. 00 buckshot shells and pried them apart. Using a .22 short case full of Bullseye powder and pushing the round buckshot pellet into the case gave me a cheep plinking load that I could see going through the air.

Thanks Travlin, that’s some good info. I read about using 00bk pellets for the projectile like you did. Happy to hear your personal experience doing so and using the pinch of Bullseye. I ordered 100 rounds of brass and a 32acp seater die from Grafs and Sons. I understand my 32 H&R seating die won’t seat the ball as it’s too long. These should arrive next week so I’ll start experimenting then. Great Labor Day stay home project.

I had advertised on our local gun trader site wanting some 32 acp brass. Nobody replies so I ordered the new brass only to have a guy offer me at no charge 200 pieces of brass. Oh well, I’ll have lots of brass to play with.

[Vaquero]

Hatch, you can't have too, much.

RP

[Mags]

... I ordered 100 rounds of brass and a 32acp seater die from Grafs and Sons. ...

With a ball bullet you might be able to just set the ball on top of the case and tap it in without the need for the seater die.

[Travlin]

When I made my first .32 00 buck plinker loads I had no reloading press or dies. Depriming was done with a fat pointed nail by holding the brass over a block of steel with a whole drilled in it a little bigger than the primer. Repriming was done with the case head against a block of hardwood and inserting a wood dowel into the case to seat the primer. I just used fired cases and never worried about sizing them. Simple was good in those days.

[Hatchdog]

... I ordered 100 rounds of brass and a 32acp seater die from Grafs and Sons. ...

With a ball bullet you might be able to just set the ball on top of the case and tap it in without the need for the seater die.

The guy I got the balls from recommended putting a firm crimp on the ball. Thus the seater die. But this is all very new to me and will be a fun learning experience. Happy to hear Travelin’s experience doing this. And everybody else who has offered suggestions.