.32 Remington | |
Origin: | United States |
Type: | Rifle |
Designer: | Remington Arms |
Case Type: | rimless |
Bullet: | 0.321 |
Neck: | 0.341 |
Shoulder: | 0.394 |
Base: | 0.418 |
Rim Dia: | 0.418 |
Case Length: | 2.06 |
Length: | 2.54 |
Rifling: | 1 turn in 14" |
Max Pressure: | 36000 |
Max Cup: | 37,000[1] |
Bw1: | 165 |
Vel1: | 2112 |
En1: | 1682 |
Test Barrel Length: | 22 |
Balsrc: | Whelen, Townsend. The American Rifle. The Century Co: 1918, p. 263. |
The .32 Remington (also known as the .32 Remington Auto-Loading or .32 Remington Rimless) is an American rifle cartridge. A rimless, smokeless powder design, this cartridge was once considered to be suitable for game larger than deer and black bear.[2] Similar contemporary cartridges include the rimmed .32 Winchester Special, a cartridge introduced by Winchester and offered as a chambering in Winchester's lever-action rifles.
The .32 Remington cartridge was introduced in 1906 by Remington in the Remington Model 8 rifle. Other rifles chambered for the .32 Remington include the Remington Model 81, Remington Model 14 slide-action, Remington Model 30 bolt action, Stevens Model 425 lever-action, and Standard Arms Company rifles. Due to their similar dimensions, the .25 Remington, .30 Remington, and .32 Remington together were known as the Remington Rimless cartridge series.[3] Firearm manufacturers generally offered all three of these cartridges as chamberings in a rifle model rather than just one of the series.
This cartridge was also chambered in the Remington Model 141. The .35 Remington was also a part of the old Remington rimless lineup, although it is based on a rimless version of the .30-40 Krag. This cartridge is a ballistic twin of the .32 Winchester Special.