cedarcreek
Bearcat
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What would be a good price for a New Model 4 5/8 Single Six? No box, early 90's, blue.
Mike Armstrong said:I also shoot "gallery loads" made up of a smidge of Bullseye, a single ought buckshot, and a dab of bullet lube in a .32 S&W (the short one we don't call "Short"....) case. THEY are accurate at 50 feet. Got the idea and the recipe from an old issue of Handloader magazine I bought with a batch of old issues to fill out my collection. Found out that you need to load them hot enough to stick in the backboard and not bounce off....don't ask me how I found out...does this come under the category of "friendly fire"?
BTW, you really need to clean the bore after firing a batch of these "gallery loads". Easy enough. The main problem I have is finding once-fired .32 S&W, which you used to be able to pick up off the deck at any public range. Not so easy now.
Mike Armstrong said:I'm sure that you can assemble "gallery loads" on any .32 case, I just don't have a "recipe" for that. Bullseye loads in my existing recipe are very tiny, so the extra space in larger cases might well be a problem--I think to get uniform ignition you need to fill the case up with something--wad, ball, or filler, or a combination.
Maybe I wasn't clear, sorry. "with the ball seated lower in the case". Set your seating stem to seat the ball at the same level in the longer cases as it is in the short 32 case.
I thought they were selling for closer to $600 in real good condition.Cholo said:The OP is probably long gone, but expect to pay $500++ for a nice example of a shorty .32 mag. Single Six.
That is what I do.sixshot said:Why not load 2 balls instead of one?
Dick
Mike Armstrong said:Jim, were those for the (rare) .32-44 target ctg. or the .32 S&W Long?
I've never seen either one, although I have seen a .32-44 round with a wadcutter (I think-- it had a full diameter flat nose) flush seated like a 7.62 Nagant revolver load. I was told it was for the (even rarer) .32-44 revolving carbine based on the S&W #3 breaktop .44-frame SA revolver.
I suspect that in those days most guys just bought a .32-20 that you could get shells for at any country store....so all these expensive exotics just died out.