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Winchester new primed .32-40 cases.
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A fair price to ask for 20?  Only for-sale listing I found was on GunBroker, 20/$60; can’t believe that’s fair!  None on ebay that I could find, and out of stock at Midway (as usual).

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They can be made from 32 special casings very easily at a greatly reduced cost.

 

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No one currently makes 32-40 brass, hence the exorbitant prices for old stock.  The Midway listing is for product that won’t be manufactured until the supplier has a large enough order backlog.  EBay does not allow the listing of ammunition components so you won’t find it there.  Your only solution at present is to ante up or re-form your own brass.

To get the correct cartridge length from re-formed brass you need to use the short (2.08″) 38-55 brass.

Buffalo Arms has re-formed 32-40 brass from time to time but they are currently out.

This past summer I was able to re-form 250 rounds of short 38-55 in a regular 32-40 sizer die and only lost 4 cartridges to over-crimping.  So far I’ve fired them all and reloaded them with no problem.  Cost: about 50¢.

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Wincacher said
No one currently makes 32-40 brass, hence the exorbitant prices for old stock.  The Midway listing is for product that won’t be manufactured until the supplier has a large enough order backlog.  EBay does not allow the listing of ammunition components so you won’t find it there.  Your only solution at present is to ante up or re-form your own brass.

To get the correct cartridge length from re-formed brass you need to use the short (2.08″) 38-55 brass.

Buffalo Arms has re-formed 32-40 brass from time to time but they are currently out.

This past summer I was able to re-form 250 rounds of short 38-55 in a regular 32-40 sizer die and only lost 4 cartridges to over-crimping.  So far I’ve fired them all and reloaded them with no problem.  Cost: about 50¢.  

Wincacher said
No one currently makes 32-40 brass, hence the exorbitant prices for old stock.  The Midway listing is for product that won’t be manufactured until the supplier has a large enough order backlog.  EBay does not allow the listing of ammunition components so you won’t find it there.  Your only solution at present is to ante up or re-form your own brass.

To get the correct cartridge length from re-formed brass you need to use the short (2.08″) 38-55 brass.

Buffalo Arms has re-formed 32-40 brass from time to time but they are currently out.

This past summer I was able to re-form 250 rounds of short 38-55 in a regular 32-40 sizer die and only lost 4 cartridges to over-crimping.  So far I’ve fired them all and reloaded them with no problem.  Cost: about 50¢.  

Components not allowed on ebay!  Hell, I didn’t know that, since I’ve bought & sold many reloading tools on ebay, and therefore assumed brass, at least, could be listed; left-wing SOBs.

Anyway, these cases I was actually wanting to sell, and I’ve got many others.  Listed them at $40 on ASSRA site, but no takers so far. 

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