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9/12/2026 9:51:52 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By desertmoon:
Ah, good Sir.  I see you have, like many other, mistaken me for a man who can read.

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it IS pretty far away from the group....
Don't be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

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9/12/2026 9:52:59 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By BlitzPig:
I have a BSA Martini Cadet that has been rechambered to 32\40 Winchester, which is the same as 32/40 Ballard.  Only have one box of ammo for it.  No one seems to be making it at the current time.
It's a bummer, because I really want to shoot it, but fear I will not be able to find anymore ammo for it.  I'm not a reloader, and right now have no time to take on that facet of the hobby.
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@BlitzPig:


I had a chance at TWO very nice Cadets in .357 Magnum about a year ago and I should have bought at least one but the guy selling was a shyster....I'd been kinda taken by him before.  NEVER EVER trust a man wearing a fedora.

I REALLLLLLY love a Martini action.  It's one of my favorites.

Maybe you should send it off and have a barrel made in .32 S&W or .38 Special?????  

Speaking of reloading.  All of my gear is in boxes as I slowly remodel the house.  I am going to get a Lee hand press to do the .32 Long Colts in the Ballard.

...on yet another track...

I did take my .32 Mag Ruger SS out to shoot today!  It did really good.  The frame by the loading gate is at a very sharp angle so I had a wee bit of trouble extracting the cases, they kept hanging up...but I can fix that judiciously.

I have never been excellent with Ruger sights....but it did very well.  

Here she is back home being cleaned.  I only ran enough rounds to adjust the sights, which didn't take much honestly.  My girlfriend's gun will remain unfired till she gets back from Hell...err, Texas.



This is one nice gun.  I am gonna get a reduced power trigger spring for it when I get a minute.  I have a LOT of irons in the fire at the moment.
"Such predicaments! I must forge ahead!"
9/12/2026 9:53:35 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By MRW:
it IS pretty far away from the group....
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@MRW:

LOLOLOLOL!
"Such predicaments! I must forge ahead!"
9/13/2026 12:19:19 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By desertmoon:
Maybe you should send it off and have a barrel made in .32 S&W or .38 Special?????  
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Who would be able to do such a thing?  Nobody around my current AO can do that, I'm pretty sure.  Soon I will be moving to Texas, maybe there is someone there that can do it?
A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence. Otto von Bismarck

9/13/2026 12:49:12 PM EDT
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Installing a liner in it may be an option too and it keeps the OEM look.

Lots of guys do it and talk about it on the cast boolits web site.   A fix for the old guns with pitted or heavily worn bores.
9/13/2026 1:36:22 PM EDT
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My rifle has a good bore, and I'd hate to lose the original look of the thing.

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence. Otto von Bismarck

9/13/2026 1:44:25 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By BlitzPig:
My rifle has a great bore, and I'd hate to lose the original look of the thing.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img921/4702/iurODy.jpg
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THAT is the exact same issue with my Ballard.  The bore is PRISTINE and I cannot bear to mess with it.

"Such predicaments! I must forge ahead!"

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