300 Savage which was the forerunner to the. Obsolete Ammunition.Д®veryone has likely heard of the. 38-55 load thatвЂ™ll push a 155-grain bullet to almost 2000 fps. 375 Winchester and it was loaded to much higher pressures. In 1978, Winchester, with the introduction of their Big Bore Model 94, sort of gave the cartridge a re-birth with a strengthened and slightly shortened case. ItвЂ™s greatest claim to fame however is that it served as the parent case for the. Until about 1940 it was a common chambering in Winchester and Marlin lever guns and was generally loaded with a 255-grain bullet with an at-best velocity of about 1500 fps. 38-caliber (0.377) bullet loaded ahead of 55-grains of black powder. 38-55 was popular in single-shot rifles for target shooting. From 1876 until about 1893, when Marlin began offering it in a lever-action rifle, the. 32-20 but have put several on the meat pole with the. 32-20 loads, and the 327 Federal Magnum which will equal the best. 32 H&R Magnum, which will offer ballistics like original. Still, at 100 yards thatвЂ™s only a little more than 500 foot-pounds of energy. 32-20 can be amped up to push 100-grain bullets to more than 2000 fps. However, in modern rifles like a Marlin 1894 the. Out of a rifle a 100-grain bullet was lucky to reach 1300 fps.

Though the cartridge has a reputation for fine accuracy, by modern standards, its original ballistics are very uninspiring. 32-20 was very popular in early revolvers. Though he was singing about shooting his woman instead of deer hunting, in 1937 the famous blues musician Robert Johnson wrote a song about the.

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