JLouis wrote on Apr 25^th, 2020 at 7:46pm:


I doubt this statement has any validity. I'd be willing to bet the CPA 32-40 case plugged case is a standard case with a brass dowel in it. Most likely fits all standard 32-40 chambers. This is what CPA indicates in their advertisement.


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Accurate information is good information. 

"These cases can be used to seat a tapered bullet ahead of the chamber in a barrel with a tapered throat.  Length is .060" longer than the standard case.  Suitable for CPA, Stevens and Ballard rifles. For Winchester rifles and others without a strong camming action by the breech block you will need a mechanical seater."

How well it may or may not work is dependent on the amount of freebore the chambering reamer has ground into it. One example being my 28-30 has .220 thousands of freebore. If trying to use a plugged case with the minimal amount of my CPA's forward caming action the amount of bullet engraving would minimal or possibly not having any at all. When I bought my CPA back in 1998 I started out using a plugged case and the chamber had the proper freebore for it's use. If it were chambered for fixed ammunition instead of for breech seating. The additional amount of freebore required for fixed would then not allow the proper seating depth / amount of bullet engraving to be achieved if trying to use a plugged case. CPA chambers their rifles based on the rifles specific use or one might say in a very special way for a lack of a better term.

It's only what a $6.00 item from CPA if one cannot make up their own. It's not allot of out of pocket money and well worth the cost to give one a try. The one I had worked well enough for just shooting competitive offhand matches. But just not so for achieving the very best in competitive benchrest accuracy. For one the case was not fire formed, two there was no way to consistently seat the bullet central to the bore and three it wasn't capable of engraving the bullet enough. I am aware of throater's I have one for a 25 and the only reason I have it was someone forgot to add a throat to the reamer that was used to cut a friend's rifle. It corrected that error and it also added an error to what could have been a perfectly cut chamber prior to it's use.

westerner wrote on Apr 26^th, 2020 at 5:33pm:


  Well, they're just good shooters!   

Plugged case is all that will fit in my .33 Stevens-Pope.  The bullet base diameter is the same as the outside diameter of the case.  Plugged case seater  is not a limiting factor. The 5 inch offhand prongs  on the butt stock and the required 1 year drying time for 250 grade  lube keep me on my toes on match day 

My plugged case is on a mechanical lever that pushes off the site base. When I got that rifle I wondered what have I got myself into? 

I called Busk Emmert.  He and Dorothy were famous for shooting Popes.  He said I would not be able to load it without mechanical advantage.  My previous .32-40 was throated so bullets pushed right in easily.

GWarden, here's my adjustable plugged case. Using the KISS principle a found a scrap nickle plated brass rod that was a good fit in the neck of one of my fired 32-40 cases. I drilled and tapped one end for a machine screw. The screw end was slipped in the case with the screw resting on the empty primer pocket and the rod was cut to leave about .060 protruding with the screw turned in quite a bit and the corners were rounded off slightly. I can vary the seating depth by simply turning the screw in or out. I put a blob of clay on the screw to give tension to the setting. Since the case is not primed there is little chance of trying to fire it and a small screwdriver slipped in the hole will push the rod out if it decides to get sticky. This worked out so well and was so easy that I am making one for my 38-50. This one will use a 3/8 inch aluminum rod in the case. Both my 32 and 38 bullets are tapered Pope style Hochs and seat very easily. My barrels are chambered for fixed bullets.