with as little recoil as a 32/20 winchester has do you think it still unsafe to use say a 100 Grain 2 Ogive Radius in a tube fed 1892?

It's simply weighing the risks against the benefits.

For me it's an easy one.....but it's your gun!

ya i hear ya. i wish lee made a flat nosed mould for it. alls i can find is the round.

Got a file?
Load em RN than file em flat
2-4 strokes with a medium cut file ought to do it.

humm thats a thought! wonder if i could rig up my manual case trimmer to do just that? i could get them all exact that way. thank you i got a new project.

If you're talking about a cast lead bullet then I doubt you could set off a primer with something as soft as its nose. You'd have to have a much harder bullet alloy than I'm accustomed to in order to do so.

well i came up with this, i made a flat trimmer i welded to a shaft a endmill. now i can clamp in my finished ammo and take the very tip off. should work, i think. got to buy the mould and some empties now. anyone got any 32/20 brass for sale?

midway has both plain and nickel
Dave

I have used RNHP cast bullets for many years in my 3 Remington M25 .32-20s with no problems.

But the easist way to be safe with the least work I would think is to get a used mould or two off the internet or at a gunshow...specifically for either the Lyman 3118 (115 grains) or the Lyman 311316 (111 grains). The 3118 is a flat-based bullet, while the 311316 has a stepped GC base. Both have round-nose ogives with flat meplats.

I have several of both those moulds and they both function fine in the tubular magazines of the Model 25s.

Instead of hollow pointing bullets I'd be tempted to just flatten the noses, either with an arbor press or a 7/8" bolt in the top of a reloading press and a modified shellholder on the ram that you can place a bullet in. Then I'd adjust it to make a meplat a hair larger than the primer diameter. Should be fast and repeatable and accurate enough at 32-20 ranges.