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Bad idea.....Wife is shopping at TJ Max and the Cabelas is right next door. I'll just go take a look in the gun library. A few weeks ago was at the same Cabelas and they had a refinished Marlin 92 in 32 Colt for $999. The refinish was extremely well done, but at $1K, just a bit much at this time. Although I did come home and research the whole thing and found that folks are successfully rechambering to 32 S&W Long with great results. Bras is just about impossible to find for the 32 COLT, but is readily available for the 32 S&W.
These rifles came with both a RF and CF firing pin. This one only has the RF.
Memorial Day Sale price....$650!!!... SOLD!
Dies, Brass, Mold and reamer are ordered.......Centerfire firing pin from Wiseners...Ordered. Should make a great Cowboy Action Shooting rifle...
Cabelas is all over the place on pricing! Usually way too expensive, but on occasion I've found some silly low prices. But after taking over 2 hours to pay for 3 antique Marlins there, it will have to be one heck of a bargain for me to ever go back again!
I finally got a chance to really look this rifle over. I kinda bought it on a whim. It is MUCH better than I thought. The finger screw on the side releases the side plate for cleaning and inspection. The interior of this rifle looks like new. The bore is pristine! Now I need to find the time to pull the barrel and rechamber it so I can shoot it!
The following is an excerpt taken from William Brophy's Marlin Book which he notes was found in the 1892 Marlin Catalog on the new .32 Caliber Marlin Model 1892 rifle:
"The caliber .32 Model 1892 rifle is so made that in the same rifle may be used .32 short rim-fire and .32 long rim-fire cartridges, and by changing the firing pin, .32 short center-fire and .32 long rifle center-fire cartridges. The rifle as sent out from the factory is adapted to use rim-fire ammunition, but a center-fire firing pin is furnished with rifle without extra charge. This is usually placed in an envelope attached to the finger lever. The firing pins can be interchanged by any one without using tools. ( In ordering the long center-fire cartridges, if of Winchester make, always specify Colt. What they call 32 long center-fire is not the original but a special longer cartridge and is not suited to this rifle.) U.M.C. Co.'s cartridges are now inside lubricated. This ammunition is cheap, and as compared with repeaters using the 32-20 or 32 W.C.F. cartridges, will save the entire cost of the rifle on the first two thousand cartridges. The ammunition is what costs in the long run. Get the best rifle made to shoot cheap cartridges. We particularly recommend this repeater to the farmer as an all-round rifle, combining the many good points of the old muzzle-loading squirrel rifle with the convenience, cheapness, rapid fire, etc., of the most improved system of repeaters. The short cartridges are just the thing for small game, and the long ones will kill hogs or beef very handily. It can be used with short cartridges where a 32-20 would be dangerous. If you throw your shells away use rim-fire cartridges, they are just as good and cheaper. If you wish to reload your shells, use center-fire cartriges. This rifle can be used as a single shot with the greatest facility. It is only necessary to drop the cartridge into the receiver when the action is open, and close with the lever. The barrels used are exactly the same as used by us for years in the Ballard rifles. They are rifled deep, and will not foul as quickly as barrels with shallow rifling. This also adds to the life of the barrel, since they will not become shot out so quickly."
I haven't had a chance to slug the bore yet. I'm shooting the next three days at the SASS Tri State here in Massachusetts. I'll check it out when I get home on Monday.
I haven't had a chance to slug the bore yet. I'm shooting the next three days at the SASS Tri State here in Massachusetts. I'll check it out when I get home on Monday.
You might want to do that before you order the reamer. I ended up using .308 piloted reamer.
IIRC, Old West Scrounger occasionally comes up with .32 Rimfire ammo from south of the border. I also recall that it wasn't cheap when it can be had!
And... why bother. You can reload .32 S&W all day long. Might was well go that route. I ordered 500 pieces of .32 S&W brass (Starline) from MidwayUSA last month (it was finally in stock - and on sale to boot!).
Nate Kiowa Jones wrote:What size is the bore? I converted one a few years back but the owner had to use un-sized .308 lead bullets because the bore was .309.
I believe at some point Marlin changed the bore size on the .32 Long 1891/1892 rifles. Early bores were larger .311"-.312" to match the .32 Long Ballard cartridge, while later were smaller to match the .32 Long Colt bullet size. The smaller bore may create some loading issues when trying to seat and crimp a .308" bullet in the .32 S&W Long rechamber.
