Gaucho Gringo
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I have 5 old revolvers and one cartridge conversion cylinder for my repro 1849 that are .32 S&W, all but two are for the short. I am going to load some BP cartridges for them. I have both short and long cases. In doing a comparison on case length with my factory ammo that is also both short and long I discovered that the loaded shorts are exactly the same overall length as the bare long case. I then took my .32 lead wadcutter bullets and found that by seating a wadcutter bullet flush with the mouth of a long case it left the same case powder volume as the factory loaded short. Since the case length and powder volume are for all intentional purposes the same, can anyone see any problems with loading the long cases with BP and a flush seated wadcutter and shooting them in the short guns. The only thing that I can think of is the WC bullet is 15 grains heaver which might raise the pressure a little. Anybody have any thoughts? Thank you.
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