As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Even in a shit hole I have dreams.
Recently I was turning my nose up at a 327 Federal Magnum as another gimmick which gun nuts always are telling you whiz bang wonders about, but then I got to reading about this cartridge on Wiki and the firearms for 327 will fit everything from a 32 Smith and Wesson short to 32 HR Magnum to this new 327 Magnum.
I was watching some boys shoot it on Gaytube and they did right well. The girl shook her wrist after six shots, but I was interested in this for a rifle and rifles did very well in lever action Henry's which at over 700 bucks I have two things, a shit hole, dreams, but no rifle.
My 32 makes a gentle man!
Back in the day, America prospered after the buffalo were gotten rid of for farming and ranching in pot guns. Everyone had a pot gun, which meant you shot whatever for the pot. Everything from grouse, to rabbits to deer were hammered with the 25 20 and 32 20 Winchester. The latter was quite loud in pistols and made many people become educated in what ripping your ear drums out. The modern magnums though just blow your ear drums to hell, so what is a little ripping in pot guns.
I kilt all the buffalo boys. You shoot the rabbits.
The nice part is back in the day, pot guns were in pistols in 45 caliber and John Wayne 92 Winchester rifles. Then came the 25 and 32, and that sort of ended the fun in the 1930's, well it was earlier as that Savage guy in his 1899 Savage started popping out the 250 3000 Savage. People couldn't see as far as that little rifle would hammer things, so along came the 22 Hornet and the 218 Bee for lever guns.
This started the divergence of the end of pistols and rifles in one cartridge and pot guns. Not having anything better to do, ammo companies ramped up the 38 Special to 357 Magnum and the 44 Special to 44 Magnum and Dirty Harry was blowing his ear drums out and not killing any better than the old 32's and 38's were back in the day. It validated something in people though to have those belted magnums of Weatherby and having a pistol as big as a cannon digging into your penis area.
The 327 is more than Nostalgia for me. I have an interest in pot guns, like the little 410 shotgun loaded with slugs for a too heavy camp and trail gun, too heavy to haul and too light for any effective work for the average bear. The 327 does crank out more things than a 357 with less recoil, but the pop is still there for shooters which is why even in recoil I think this cartridge in a lever rifle would be a delight with light or heavy loads. This thing will crank out 500 foot pounds which is just dandy in heavy loads with heavy bullets. In my area the fish police frown on guns that do not produce uber ballistics for deer, and they lump turkeys in with this, but I would love to go shooting turkeys with this gun. Put a bullet right into that rib area above the breast, and I would think this would be Thanksgiving on the plate. It always worked well when I was poaching pheasants in my youth with a 22 hollow point in Winchester shells. Look for those who are not rural, nothing pissed me off worse than raising birds all year, and then having these crawling road hunters lurking by like peeping toms all day for months. So in going over to beloved Uncles to do chores, I simply shot all the pheasants I saw in the ditch as I was not feeding them to those city pricks.
Back to the turkeys, I would really love to shoot a turkey or a small deer with this gun. All the rage is for that 223 in Rambo rifles now and it works, but it is faster, but lighter bullets. As the 32 20 ate volumes of deer, I would think it would be appropriate to put some yearling down for the count with some 100 to 115 grain bullet which expanded and transferred energy.
Meanwhile, this 327 would make a nice carry round in the Ruger GP100 or whatever that gun is called. Those are nice carry guns built for 357 and would make a nice combo in a 327 and I could pretend even with a Single Six I was Teddy Roosevelt on the plains plicking at thangs.
No one though has been hunting with this round and that is a shame as it is accurate and would make a dandy coyote killer. I found this story.
“When I have the opportunity to work with a new and worthy sixgun, it gets used and carried daily while doing ranch chores, etc. In this case, the new Single-Seven accounted for several pests and muskrats; however, an extremely unlucky coyote made the mistake of crossing in front of me while checking my fall calves. He had not noticed me, so I drew the gun, slowly cocked it to keep noise to a minimum, took aim and then whistled, which stopped him nearly broadside at 72 long paces. The front sight of the 7-1/2-inch gun was quickly centered just behind the coyote’s front shoulder and the (recently lightened) trigger was carefully pulled. Instantly, the old male dropped in his tracks and hardly wiggled. That was easy! The 100-grain Hornady XTP pushed to 1,350 fps passed through the vitals and exited the off shoulder. For anyone wanting an enjoyable, accurate, low-recoiling, high-performance .32 caliber single-action for field use, this is it.”— Brian Pearce
Granted junior above does not provide autopsy results in how big or small this yote was, but all the same the 327 knocked the life out of that killer and that is what bullets are supposed to do. It would be a turkey killer, but I have doubts about the Hornady on yearling deer, but if it was put behind the shoulder in the ribs, that would make deer steaks for breakfast.
Anyway, that is what I dream about in getting out of a shithole. A nice lever action rifle bouncing around in the pick up as I do things with TL and us coming across things which need blasting as coyotes always do, along with all other vermin on the planet. I don't think this is a pheasant poaching gun with good loads, but then that is what a 22 is for as Grampa always said things were not illegal unless you got caught. Yeah you never hear writers saying old American logic like the Rum Runners now do you. But they said to, you get into trouble you get yourself out of it. Kind of dichotomy advice, but that is the way they lived when pot guns were potting things in pot shots for the pot.
I could not locate any FBI statistics on how this little beasty works on criminals in convincing them to stop being criminals, which is a shame as most things are in life, but I am thinking about this for the future as what the heck else do I have to dream about in a shit hole.
Yes I have lots of interests
and you are not one of them.
Nuff Said
agtG
