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November 1, 2013
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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).
September 28, 2016
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They can be made from 32 special casings very easily at a greatly reduced cost.
Erin
December 1, 2012
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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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November 1, 2013
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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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