16 March 2011, 04:15
Bill/Oregon.32-20 loads
Well, the weather here has been absolute s**t and looks to continue this way into April, so I haven't been out shooting yet. But I have a new set of Precision Gun Works stocks to fit to the Model 53 Winchester, and I just made up some loads using some old, black Remington 98-grain lead RN bullets over 3.4 of Red Dot, and some 100-grain Hornady XTPs over 13 grains of H-110, so we'll see how the old pea-shooter does pretty soon here. Everyone seems to be low or out of brass right now, but I managed to find a stash of 50 virgin Western cases at a local shop and also had about 20 Starline cases on hand. This seems to be a very easy cartridge to load, but range time will tell. I was going to try IMR 4227 under that Hornady pill, but am out. I'll sub the H-4227, as I have heard these two powders are hard to beat for accuracy in the .32-20.
Also have a new Lyman 311008 mold on hand, so will cast up some of those neat little 115-grain slugs too.
22 March 2011, 09:25
L. RivardMy best performing powders to date in the 32-20 hava been Blue Dot, IMR 4227, and Unique, in that order. It' a very enjoyable round to work with.
22 March 2011, 19:55
fla3006What's a good Blue Dot load?
24 March 2011, 08:41
L. RivardMy most accurate load to date of any powder I have tried is 6.8 grains of blue dot, Starline brass, Win small rifle primer, and a 118 grain Bear Creek Supply moly coated cast bullet. Velocity is 1400 fps from a 22 in. barreled Marlin 94.