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Shanghai Jack Junior Member Offline Posts: 87 Location: texas Joined: Apr 6^th, 2014	Breech Seting Practices - The Civil war starts Yesterday at 9:44pm	Print Post
	So what's the current thinking about breech seating smokeless powder. In the old days shooting my 32-40 in the back 40 after inserting the boolit I would charge a case, hold the rifle vertically, insert the case, tap the hand-guard a couple of times to settle the powder, aim and fire. Most ranges frown on rifles point straight up. What's the current thinking retaining powder in the shell? fiber wad, pufflon, tissue paper, nothing, etc? What's the current thinking about chamber ringing Thanks


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bpjack Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3424 Location: East Olympia, WA Joined: May 18^th, 2008	Re: Breech Seting Practices - The Civil war starts Reply #1 - yesterday at 10:09pm	Print Post
	I use nothing in 32-40 length cases and either floral foam or something similar with shorter cases just to prevent powder spillage. I have never pointed the rifle up. Just my take on it. There have been quite a few threads on this topic here Jack

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JHand Full Member Offline Posts: 139 Joined: Apr 15^th, 2024	Re: Breech Seting Practices - The Civil war starts Reply #2 - yesterday at 10:47pm	Print Post
	Using long cases like the 32-40, you don't need any wads unless you are using black powder and filling the case. I settled on 14gr of 300mp and accuracy never suffered


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RSW Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1264 Location: Arizona Joined: Sep 8^th, 2006	Re: Breech Seting Practices - The Civil war starts Reply #3 - yesterday at 11:39pm	Print Post
	Below is an illustration showing how smokeless powder slumps forward when a .32-40 cartridge case is charged with a "standard" powder charge of approximately 14.0gr of IMR 4227. I have run this test time after time using various smokeless powders and the results of how the powder slumps forward are always similar the the illustration. Adding an over-powder wad (of whatever material) only adds an additional variable and negatively affects accuracy IMO. Raising the muzzle vertical has no effect in how much the powder slumps forward when lowered to the horizontal axis in my tests. Loading and shooting Schuetzen rifles with smokeless powders is thoroughly detailed in my book Loading and Shooting Traditional American Schuetzen Rifles.

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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11961 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Breech Seting Practices - The Civil war starts Reply #4 - Today at 12:56am	Print Post
	When loading my Borchardt 32-40 and 35-40 I use a floral foam wad in the mouth of the case. Keeps the powder in the case and in the 32-40 shrunk groups. A rifle can be pointed straight up, a loaded shell inserted in the chamber then set back on the bags without closing the action. Floral foam wads make loading easy.

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