Poll: .32 the caliber time has passed by?

[VinnieBoomBah]

114-year-old Savage 1907, it's just fun to shoot.

Of all the guns I have owned, sold, traded or borrowed over the years that is the one that I have always wanted to get my hands but have never been at the right place at the right time to make it happen!

 

[Jay Walk]

Of all the guns I have owned, sold, traded or borrowed over the years that is the one that I have always wanted to get my hands but have never been at the right place at the right time to make it happen!

Got it right here from a member.
Was an old stale listing so I called and made an offer, piece was twenty minutes from me.

 

[Greg S]

Those GP 100s are pretty rare. They only made one run I believe so a national auction listing is gonna be your quickest route. They are nice but for the price, I'd opt for a S&W Model 16 in either 4 or 6" in the H&R. With a 9.5" Single 6 producing near 327 velocities.

Nice score aasbra. You'll enjoy that. If you reload, a 140 bullet should fit. I casted a bunch about 12 brinnel with a gas check HP at 135 gr.

Check reloader magazine for 327 load data.

 

[bcp]

I seem to recall a GP100 or Blackhawk in 32 at the BG show the last month or two. I was looking for a small Single-Six or SP101 so didn't pay much attention to this large pistol.

Bruce

 

[oremike]

I seem to recall a GP100 or Blackhawk in 32 at the BG show the last month or two. I was looking for a small Single-Six or SP101 so didn't pay much attention to this large pistol.

Bruce

Mines a Blackhawk Bisley but is the size of a single six. Early on Ruger made the Super single Six Magnum in 32 H&R. A friend had one that was a Boy Scout commemorative model. Somewhere along the line Ruger made the Shopkeeper in 32 H&R with a birdshead grip. I have a customer that has two of them for her Cowboy Action Kit.

 

[Greg S]

I took a Buckeye and converted it to a Bisley and relieved the .311 throats to .313 on both cylinders. I still have a new front sight to install and grips to make.

It seems Houge has taken a page out of Altamonts book and making thinner Bisley grips. Ordered two sets and they were like 3/8" thinner overall then their older grips.

The front sight face on the new sight is 10°off vertical and shows up better for me with my aging eyes. I've got one installed on a Bisley single6 in 22LR and I like it a lot.

 

[Jay Walk]

Road To Perdition, Savage 1907 in .32 acp.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

If someone wants to shoot it then it's not dead to them. Not sure why gun articles like to pronounce that X caliber is "dead". Nothing else to report on at the time I guess. If they still produce ammo and someone still shoots it it's not dead imo. I don't have any guns in .32 but someday I might get an old Swiss revolver which apparently shoots just fine with 32 long.

 

[Greg S]

I think the 30 Super is mo dead than the 32 S&W, H&R or 327.

 

[titsonritz]

Road To Perdition, Savage 1907 in .32 acp.

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I had never pictured Tom Hanks as gangster until that convincing role.

 

[Quirt Evans]

When I see a Walther PP it reminds me of some foreign military officer.
You know, with a two-story oversize hat and a Sam Brown belt, with a tiny pistol in a full-flap holster.
They wear it as a badge, not to use.

 

[gmerkt]

I've liked .32 revolvers for years, but in reading these posts, it surprises me to see how many others share the interest.

 

[Aero Denezol]

Walther is going to release a PP in .32 w/ the extended beavertail (infinitely more comfortable to shoot).

Assuming Measure 114 isn't implemented by the release date I plan to by this AND a case of .32 ACP

 

[deadeye]

Well 32, 32L and 32mag still work for me anyway.

 

[oremike]

I think it's funny how now what is new is just rediscovered something old that someone claimed to dead and buried. Now it's "new, exciting and different!" ..... as seen on TV.... but wait there's more.... act now limited time offer.

 

[Certaindeaf]

.a tiny pistol in a full-flap holster.
They wear it as a badge, not to use.

Vasily Blokhin personally executed approximately 10,000 people with his .25acp pistols.

 

[Quirt Evans]

Vasily Blokhin personally executed approximately 10,000 people with his .25acp pistols.

Some outliers don't change the metric.
Actually, the U.S. Army had a "Generals Pistol" in the '20s>'30s, IIRC it was a .380, it looked kind of like todays Mustang, carried for dress occasions.

 

[Cerberus Group]

There will be more 32 caliber handguns coming out at 2025 SHOT...so the wave will continue.

Have been invited to the S&W pre show dinner the Sunday before SHOT opens, so will be able to view all the new stuff and shoot them on Monday.

 

[titsonritz]

Vasily Blokhin personally executed approximately 10,000 people with his .25acp pistols.

He executed 7000 Polish prisoners in 28 days of the Katyn massacre, an appropriate rate of one every three minutes, with a Walther Model 2.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Some outliers don't change the metric.
Actually, the U.S. Army had a "Generals Pistol" in the '20s>'30s, IIRC it was a .380, it looked kind of like todays Mustang, carried for dress occasions.

Outliers are the metric.