[Mad Reloader]

earschplitinloudenboomer:

Definitely will keep everybody posted.

Have already extensively researched Nagant Revolvers, so here's a few more tidbits. Some of this you may already have heard, pretty sure Gil has:

1) Aguila .32 S&W Long in 7.62 Nagant Revolver. Notice I said Aguila. Not Remington, not W-W. You will suffer the LEAST amount of split casings, but if you get off a 50 rd. box with 100% brass survival--consider yourself lucky indeed.

2) Fiocchi 7.62 Nagant Revolver ammo. It may be NC/BO and brass cased, but from what I've observed & heard--consider it non-reloadable. (overdone roll crimp causes splits/separations)

3) Bertram Brass from AUSTRALIA (home of my good buddy Azzafox) does make completely reloadable brass casings for 7.62 Nagant Revolver...but they're $1 each. ($20 US for a box of 20)Just the casing, mind!

4) Best bet for reloadable brass will be to get the Lee Precision dies for 7.62 Nagant Revolver & run .32-20 through them. (Lee is in no way Dillon or even RCBS but some of their products are pretty cool) The dies are designed for just that purpose! You will get 7.62 Nagant Revolver Shorts--but I read somewhere that at one point Izhmash and/or Tula ran off 7.62 N.R. Shorts for use in target competition.... (an article in American Rifleman I think) They won't have that "gas seal" thing going for them, but hopefully you can live with the loss of 100 f/s from factory velocity specs.

5) OR: You can do what I've done. Get the conversion cylinder (they run about $40-49.00) that allows you to shoot .32 ACP in the gas-seal 1895 Nagant Revolver.
---> Just a heads-up, so you know what you're getting into: Apparently the conversion cyls work best in "OLDER" Nagant revolvers. If yours is in practically NIB condition, odds are it will need to have a 'smith tune it so it works right (I have already braced myself for a session with the gunsmith once it gets here)

6) IF you find one of the "7.62 Tokarev in 7.62 Nagant Revolver" conversion cylinders...do NOT even consider firing live ammo in it.
Ever.
The cylinder walls are INCREDIBLY thin on these things, and as you know, the good Sellier & Bellot 7.62 Tokarev is loaded on the warm side. A recipe for disaster.
(The only sensible reason I can think of for those having been made was for the prop guns used in "Enemy At The Gates." That way the same blank ammo could be used in the Shpagin SMG's, the Tokarev TT 30/33's and the Nagant revolvers)
{FWIW, if one turns up, let me know--got a re-enactor buddy who may be willing to pay $10 or so for one. )

Here's a Link to a GREAT Nagant Revolver site, if you haven't been there already:

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bu...1895page.html.

In closing: My HC buddy JP Slovjanski (who is also on Feldgrau and some of the WW2 sites) really really wants to get one of those CZ-52's...