Description
.32 S&W Long and .32 Colt New Police 115 grain RNFP Hi-Tek Coated Cowboy Action Ammunition- The .32 S&W Long was introduced in 1896 with the company’s first hand ejector revolver. The .32 Long is simply a lengthened version of the earlier .32 S&W. The hand ejector design has evolved some, but with its swing out cylinder on a crane, has been the basis for every S&W revolver designed since. In 1896, the cartridge was loaded with black powder. In 1903 the small hand ejector was updated with a new design. The cartridge stayed the same, but was now loaded with smokeless powder to roughly the same chamber pressure.[3]
When he was the New York City Police Commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt standardized the department’s use of the Colt New Police revolver. The cartridge was then adopted by several other northeastern U.S. police departments. The .32 Long is well known as an unusually accurate cartridge. This reputation led Police Commissioner Roosevelt to select it as an expedient way to increase officers’ accuracy with their revolvers in New York City. The Colt company referred to the .32 S&W Long cartridge as the .32 “Colt’s New Police” cartridge, concurrent with the conversion of the Colt New Police revolver from .32 Long Colt. The cartridges are functionally identical with the exception that the .32 NP cartridge has been historically loaded with a flat nosed bullet as opposed to the round nose of the .32 S&W Long.
The .32 S&W Long headspaces on the rim and shares the rim dimensions and case and bullet diameters of the shorter .32 S&W cartridge and the longer .32 H&R Magnum and .327 Federal Magnum cartridges. The shorter .32 S&W may be fired in handguns chambered for the .32 S&W Long; and the .32 S&W Long may be fired in arms chambered for the longer .32 H&R and .327 Federal magnums; although the longer cartridges should not fit and must not be fired in arms designed for the shorter and less powerful cartridges.[13]
The .32 S&W Long and .32 Long Colt are not interchangeable, but the .32 S&W Long is what you want for your .32 Colt New Police. At one time it was widely publicized that these rounds would interchange, but in truth it has never been deemed safe to do so.
We load each round of the .32 S&W Long individually for use in the .32 S&W Long and the .32 Colt New Police, with the same passion and dedication only found in individual loading rooms and benches across the country. This loading process by Choice Ammunition, along with this Chey-Cast Hi-Tek coated RNFP bullet, will provide a reliable, clean shooting and dependable round for you in this amazing and historical calibers.
Loaded Ammunition comes in our exclusive Black Hi-Tek coating!
- Velocity: 585 FPS
- 100% hand loaded with superior quality and performance
