I am looking at building a woods loafer's rifle (single shot) in .32 Miller Short. So far the total sum of all my knowledge about it is this:

1. It is a straight-taper case using the .357 Maximum brass, and

2. It has won a lot of scheutzen matches. It also won the 1998 cast bullet association Grand National Championship in the hands of my dear friend Bev Pinney.

So, have any of you used it?

Is its brass actually shortened any from the full length Maximium case?

Have you ever tried jacketed bullets in it?

How would you feel about plinking a white-tail deer up close in the woods with it?

Would also appreciate hearing anything else you who have actually used it can tell me regarding it.

Maybe I need one too. Can you make two? roger

Wish I could, Roger. As it is right now, I have to rent lathe time, or have someone else do such work for me. Moving here and losing my lathe as a result of the move has been a life-numbing emotional process for me.

I think you'd really enjoy the round, though. I watched Bev win his national championship in Kansas City with it. His used a Ron Smith gain-twist barrel. It was too high a pressure round for many of the older single-shot actions, but works fine in a Miller-actioned rifle, or a smokeless powder Hi-Wall or a Ruger single shot.

(Of course, a guy wouldn't have to load to that pressure for a woods loafer's gun.)

It would seem that this cartridge would be quite similar to a rimmed .222; same head diameter and close to the same length.

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Originally posted by bartsche:
It would seem that this cartridge would be quite similar to a rimmed .222; same head diameter and close to the same length.

Well, yes and no. It probably is a lot the same as the .222 Rimmed, but the two main versions only neck it down to take either .321" or .308" bullets...or in the case of the ones set up for CBA competition, often .311" bullets.

I have a good Ron Smith fluted, gain twist, barrel which is currently in .30 PPC, so I'd probably set that back a wee tad and then re-chamber for the .30 version. I think I have a reamer here somewhere for it....

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Originally posted by Alberta Canuck:

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Originally posted by bartsche:
It would seem that this cartridge would be quite similar to a rimmed .222; same head diameter and close to the same length.

Well, yes and no. It probably is a lot the same as the .222 Rimmed, but the two main versions only neck it down to take either .321" or .308" bullets...or in the case of the ones set up for CBA competition, often .311" bullets.

I have a good Ron Smith fluted, gain twist, barrel which is currently in .30 PPC, so I'd probably set that back a wee tad and then re-chamber for the .30 version. I think I have a reamer here somewhere for it....

No excuse for it but my mind was locked onto a .22 cartridge. Oh Well roger

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Originally posted by bartsche:

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Originally posted by Alberta Canuck:

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Originally posted by bartsche:
It would seem that this cartridge would be quite similar to a rimmed .222; same head diameter and close to the same length.

Well, yes and no. It probably is a lot the same as the .222 Rimmed, but the two main versions only neck it down to take either .321" or .308" bullets...or in the case of the ones set up for CBA competition, often .311" bullets.

I have a good Ron Smith fluted, gain twist, barrel which is currently in .30 PPC, so I'd probably set that back a wee tad and then re-chamber for the .30 version. I think I have a reamer here somewhere for it....

No excuse for it but my mind was locked onto a .22 cartridge. Oh Well roger

I do that sort of thing all the time, Roger....don't feel badly about it. I'm finding myself typing out a reply, then will suddenly realize what I am typing is relevant to another thread, not the one I'm typing at.

Think it comes from having too many different subjects jockeying for space at the same time in my shrinking mind.

think of it as a 3/4 scale of the 32-40.

Check your PMs for a short history of the cartridge.

Rich