There are guys on here that can and will lead you through this who can explain the process better than I, but that is the basic. Once you have got the brass fireformed( fired in the rifle) you will not need to resize. You might be able to do it with a 32-20 Lee Loader. To do the actual reloading you will need a punch to deprime the case and a way to reprime. It is also possible to make them fro 32-20 brass. That is what I use and they have been very good. That is there is a short sahnk that seats into the case and the rest of the boolit is the same diameter as the case.Ĭases are available from Bertram Brass out of Austrailia. You will need to slug the bore to find out just what size it is. After you digest all the info then it is time to start. All I would need is a mold for the correct diameter heeled bullet which is available from Australia I believe.ģ10 not the best to learn reloading with, but will try to get you the basics.įirst you should search this forum for everything you can find on 310 Cadet. 310 Cadet cartridge with some hope of accuracy. If the above is true, I can still load and shoot the. For that matter, I could shoot 32-20 in order to fireform the case and reload with the correct bullet, assuming the case didn't split (that's an awful big expansion for that little case!). 310 bullet might have to travel a bit to reach the rifling, but it will shoot. If indeed they reamed it, it would only lengthen the chamber somewhat but not change the contour. So ASSUMING this is true, how in the world did they get the reamer in there? Remove the barrel? Doesn't look like it at all, yet the 32-20 AND the. I've seen countless articles stating that a 32-20 reamer was run into the chamber in order to make them more 'saleable' here in the U.S. This little rifle was no doubt one of the imports back in the early 1960's, but wasn't sporterized or changed other than the barrel marking. The 32-20 case is smaller in diameter at the mouth by quite a bit.īullet diameters are, of course, different. The 32-20 is a mild bottleneck, compared to the straight taper of the. 310 ammunition, so I compared one of them to a 32-20 and discovered that: While rummaging through my pile of stuff I found three boxes of Kynoch. A shame too, because the bore is gorgeous. Now, we all know that the 32-20 bullet is far too small for the Cadet bore, so I just put it aside for future study. I've had a little Martini action Cadet rifle for years, but never shot it much because stamped on the barrel is '32-20'.

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