303 to 32 acp converter

[Don'tkillbill]

Does anyone know a place in Canada you can get one of these?

 

[smellie]

Should be some around.

Marbles made them for many years, as did Numrich.

If you can't find one, make your own. Not hard.
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[mbogo3]

http://www.mcace.com/ Harold

 

[Don'tkillbill]

Anyone ever load full sized shells with .32 pistol bullets with a small charge?

 

[John Sukey]

I have two convertors
577-450 to .22
577-450 to airgun pellets (uses shotgun primers)
Unfortunately the person who sent them to me did not include his return address in the instructions, so I could never pick up anymore.

 

[Don'tkillbill]

The pellet with the primer sounds darn cool.

 

[bigedp51]

Anyone ever load full sized shells with .32 pistol bullets with a small charge?

Yes with SR-4759 or Trail Boss

I use this plinking load for fire forming cases while using a rubber o-ring to hold the case against the bolt face

After fire forming, the case will then headspace on the shoulder and not the rim and this prevents case head separations.

 

[Cdn303]

Any particular loading?

 

[bigedp51]

Any particular loading?

The older Speer manuals give reduced loadings for SR-4759 and the .303 and the Hodgdons site has reduced loads for Trail Boss and H4895 also.

 

[Don'tkillbill]

That's cool. So you form case first with a small o-ring and then you have dedicated brass that will sit properly. Still wrapping my head around that one but the pics help.

Thanks for the reply

 

[vviking]

Anyone ever load full sized shells with .32 pistol bullets with a small charge?

Been doing just that for many years.

My recipy is five or six grains of 700X(most any shotgun powder will work), a 71 grain .32 cal FMJ bullet, with a tuft of kapok poked down on the powder for reliable ignition.
Prints small clusters at 25 yards, close to point of aim. POI can be elevation tuned with 1/2 grain changes to charge weight, windage is usually very close, at worst an inch or so of hold-off needed to hit dead center.

These loads are subsonic and very quiet.
The FMJ's anchor small game without tearing up the edibles.

 

[smellie]

Brits experimented with 2 different reduced-load .303s for short-range target use, but did not adopt either.

OTOH, Canada DID adopt the GP-B loading: Gallery Practice, Ball. It was a 115-grain fairly soft lead slug with a small charge of Chopped Cordite. You can get about the same effect by loading a cast 120-grain (or even lighter) .32 bullet with the shotgun-powder loads suggested above.

CHEAP like BORSCHDT!

AND it doesn't spread that rabbit or turkey all over the SW quarter.
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