#J.p. sauer model 1913 variant 2 .32 acp serial#

35 'AS&WP' ammo, and a pistol to go along with said box, but the bore on the Model 1913 slugs out at 0.322'. To my knowledge, that type of extruding lubricant bullet design was used only to a very limited extent for certain target bullets in a few of the old black powder cartridges, and never in smokeless loads of any kind. 35 S&W bullet having the extruding lubricant, and frankly do not believe that story at all without any further evidence in support of it. 32 ACP case would work just as well, I cannot imagine. Why anyone would go to tht much trouble when a. 32-20 case down, cutting an extractor groove, and cutting and trimming to length. 35 S&W brass, it can be done by turning the rim of a. 32 ACP cartridge chambers, it should be fine to shoot in the. Due to the very minor dimensional differences, if the. The nominal case length and diameter are, respectively 0.670' and 0.346' as compared to 0.680' and 0.336' for the. The bullet diameter is 0.309', the same as the. Apparently at that time, someone at S&W was averse to FMJ bullets because of suspected bore wear. As earlier noted, it used a partially jacketed bullet with a lead base to engage the rifling. 35 S&W cartridges apart and see what the bullet weighs and looks like inside the case.Д®ven though this is a resurrection of an old thread, I'll provide a little technical information on the. The guns are very well engineered and work well, considering how early a semiautomatic pistol design they were. 32 ACP cartridge in 1913 instead of their own proprietary round, it may have sold well. I think that if S&W had initially chambered this pistol for the. Dave (I forget his last name) who ran 'The Old Western Scrounger' advised those of us who inquired about buying. 32 being just a smidge larger in most measurements. The cartridges are rimless and look just about like a. There is a solid cannelure turned in the case about 3/16' below the case mouth, probably at the base of the bullets.

The head stamp is '35 S&W' on one side and 'REM-UMC' on the other side. The base of the bullet, practically the entire bearing surface of it, is lead 'for a good bearing surface and a long barrel life.' (Jinks) The primer is copper-colored with 'U' embossed on it. The cupro-nickel jacket is almost the same color as the exposed lead and for years, before really looking, I thought the entire bullet was lead and the ammo books were wrong. 'REMINGTON ARMS-UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO.' They are jacketed softpoint bullets, which Jinks describes (in his book HISTORY OF SMITH & WESSON', published in 1977) as 'half-mantle' bullets, with a very round lead tip. The box is marked '.35 SMITH & WESSON AUTOMATIC SMOKELESS' over 50 CENTRAL FIRE CARTRIDGES'.

#J.p. sauer model 1913 variant 2 .32 acp serial#

Over the years, I have located only one partial box of 35 S&W Auto cartridges and a few strays at gun shows to go with my first year production, three digit serial pistol. The pistols themselves were only made and sold from May, 1913 to June, 1922, with a total of 8,350 pistols produced. 35 S&W Auto ammo hasn't been loaded since the beginning of WWII.