[gandog56]

For fun, I bought a .32 chamber adapter thingie for my Mosin Nagants so I could fire .32 ACP/S&W Long/H&R Magnums. I waqs going to reload some .32 ACP's after I shot them, but the only bullets I have on hand are Hornady .32 100 grain XTP's. All old manuals only seem to go up to 71 grains. My Lee Modern Reloading 2nd edition only goes up to 83 grains. Am I doomed to have to buy a new box of bullets here?

Looking for anything using Unique, W231, or AA#7.

[Mooseman684]

I think the 100 gr. bullets were for rifle cartridges like the 32-40 , and would be quite heavy for a .32 acp...

Rich

[Bookman]

I load that same Hornady bullet for my .32 revolvers, using .32 Long brass since my fingers don't fit the tiny .32 ACP brass. 2.4 grains of WW231 and a 100 grain bullet works for me and should be fine in your rifle.

This load is heavier than the factory .32 Long, but no more than the .32 Magnum.

[Big Dog]

Have those adapters reemed out to 7.62 Nagant - then you can use all the same stuff your Nagant revolver uses!

[Kaybe]

Someone needs to make an adapter for the Mosin to fire the 7.62x25 Tok ammo. .30 caliber, really cheap. If they made one, I might just a Mosin! No, not really, but it would sell great.

[gandog56]

Tok would certainly be a lot cheaper to fire than Nagant.

[Big Dog]

BUT.... the 7.62X25 uses a .308 bullet, while the various .32s use larger diameter bullets, similar to the Mosin.

[gandog56]

And a lot of people use .308" bullets to reload their 7.62X54R.

I ain't one of them, but some do. The Lee sizer ball in their 7.62X54R dies is .308", and all their recipes are using .308" bullets. I replaced it with a .311" .303 Brit sizer ball.

[gandog56]

So nobody out there has a manual with a recipe for .32 ACP and a 100 grain jacketed bullet?

[big boomer]

here you go grandog THESE ARE FOR 32 LONG AND USING 100 GR. SPEER JACKETED HOLLOW POINT hope this helps its from M. D. Smiths reloading pages
universal 3.0 grains "do not reduce" 694 fps
2400 5.0 grains 660 fps starting load
2400 5.5 733 fps max load
w231 1.9 grains 735 max
aa no.5 3.8 grains 675 max

I don't know if you can find data for the acp brass in this weight

[gandog56]

I'm a guessing you just shouldn't use this weight bullet for .32 ACP. Crapola, that means I need to order some.

[ke4sky]

Best for .32 ACP is to cast your own appropriate 74-88 grain lead bullets, or buy the Meister 94-gr. cast lead flatnose .312 diameter and load to 0.97 OAL with 1.7 grains of Bullseye, 2 grs. of W231 or 2.4 grs. of Unique. Trying to load a jacketed bullet this heavy at subsonic velocity you are likely to stick a bullet in the bore of a rifle barrel longer than 16 inches

If you intend to use these only in your rifle, you could buy the 90-gr. Hornady lead SWC bullets and load them with the same charges as listed above. These are inexpensive in bulk and shoot well if you keep the velocity below about 900 f.p.s. in the rifle. If the report is a mild "pop" like a .22 firing standard velocity ammo you are fine. You don't want a "crack~!" When seated with its long conical nose poking out of the case with part of the front driving band exposed cartridges will be too long to fit in typical pistol magazines, but this doesn't matter in your adapter. You could also load any of the 98-gr. hollowbased wadcutters for the .32 S&W Long, seating bullets out so that loaded rounds are not shorter than 1.0" OAL using the same charges as above. These rounds will NOT chamber in a .32 ACP pistol.