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Speaking of .32 S&W Long, just recently picked up a "fixer-upper" that can handle that cartridge:
It's an 1898 Rast&Gasser Austrian service revolver, cal "8mm Gasser"--which appears to be either a lengthened .32 S&W L, or a shortened .32 H&R Mag, based on my correlating case dimensions.
Raised a LOT of eyebrows at the February Crossroads show, as apparently in my parts those things are LONG since vanished. Mine needs a new firing pin (which I will eventually have my gunsmith install) and some work done on a new loading gate which I have roughed out a replacement from steel stock.
This being a solid-framed gateloader, I think the action strength is there to handle warmer loads of .32 S&W Long...
(Have attached a pic of an 1898, this one being the one I did NOT win the auction of--if you look carefully you can see the frame-mounted firing pin and the INTACT loading gate. Notice the really odd grip shape. To aim properly, you actually have to take that weird "bent-arm" stance firearms instructors keep telling one NOT TO use)
Though for the most part it will get used primarily with .32 S&W smokeless blanks, as I got it for doing World War One re-enacting--but I would like to "range qualify" with it someday!
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Last edited by Mad Reloader; 03-05-2005 at 07:57 AM.
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