Anyone ever shoot or load for .32 Win. Special?

WB
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Sunday, February 15, 2026, 14:35 (12 hours, 5 minutes ago)

One of the original American 8mm's. Of course the .32-40 WCF predated the Special, and the .303 Savage is also .321" bullets. Interestingly also my little .310 Martini, .321".

I'm still researching that odd 1:16" rifling twist...

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Kase and I shot a model 94 at the cowboy shoots we put on

Gary Reeder
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Sunday, February 15, 2026, 18:14 (8 hours, 26 minutes ago) @ WB

at our shop in Florida. A shoot for charity. Kase and I used a well used but still nice model 94 in 32 Win Spl. Colleen used her Dad's Winchester model 71. She shot it at every target and even with it knocking her back a bit she kept using it. I think almost 2 full boxes of 348.

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I was looking at a nice pre-war 1920’s example

WB
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Sunday, February 15, 2026, 19:04 (7 hours, 36 minutes ago) @ Gary Reeder

It was just a pretty and pleasing gun to behold. I don’t have a use for it I just like it. The 1:16 twist is said to be better for black powder and cast bullet shooting. It was an upgrade to the .32-40 black powder round but could use smokeless too like the .30-30 (actually designed completely around smokeless powder). There is not much difference in performance the 170 gr. at 2200 fps.

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