Quote:
Originally Posted by
ke4sky 
| I have one of the MCA chamber inserts which the guy in Alaska used to make. These enable use of .32 ACP ammo as sub-caliber small game rounds in any .30-30. I have another adapter bought recently from The Sportsman's Guide which does the same thing in the .303 British.
But the .308 and .30-'06 adapters I tried were oversized to chamber dimensions, and I stuck one in the chamber of my Remington 03A3. I got it out by sliding a narrow knife blade next to the extractor to keep it from popping off over the rim while I smacked the bolt open with a hammer, but if I has tried this in a rifle with tight chamber and plunger ejector it would have required a trip to the gunsmith to pull the barrel. Use these only in militaries and sporters with SLOPPY chambers~!t.
At 25 yards the .30-30 adapter with .32 ACP ammo is more accurate than a pistol, but tedious to extract, punch out the fired case, reload the adapter and manually load it into the chamber each time. With the sight elevator on the 94 Winchester pushed up as high as it would go, ordinary .32 ACP hardball shot approximately to point of aim at 50 feet and grouped about an inch and a half. The .303 British insert shot on at 25 yards with the battle sight set at 500 yards.
A reduced load with 115-gr. lead .32-20 bullet and 5 grs. of Bullseye pistol powder loaded into a .30-30 case is more accurate and makes more sense ifyou are carrying the .30-30 anyway. I had to try the adapter because I had heard about the Marbles adapters made before WWII and I was curious.
For more on the .32 ACP look at my latest in the Handgun section
"In Search of Bunny Gun Nirvana..."
|
Winchester used to manufacture "auxilary chambers". I've bid on several in ebay auctions but they all sold for more than I was willing to go. They
didn't come up very often and I haven't really looked since ebay has become so anti gun.
AMEN!!
