winchester lever action '73 in 32-20
I have two of these fine old rifles, one a carbine and the other a rifle, they hold tight groups at 100 yards,
my question is, for what purpose was the 32-20 devloped??
not much of a cartridge, kind of hard to knock a deer down with this round
just curious
During the great depression America ate its deer
and Meadowlarks, and anything else that flew or walked. My dad told me that when he was a kid the 25-20 was the .22 of the day. I would also lay odds that lots of misbehaved people were shot dead with the 32-20. This country has become obsessed with Magnums and velocity. I had an old friend that took all North American big game including moose and bear with a 257 Roberts. I vividly remember seeing the first of the big Magnums in deer camp. Mule deer using a 264 Win and 7mm Mag. The whole front shoulder was blown off. The smarter ones among us used (in my case) 8mm or 270 or 06 and some 30-30s. Those are absolutely plenty of gun for the job as I'm sure the 32-20 would be. I personally don't want a hunting bullet to GO THROUGH a deer, I want it to stick around and make him bleed. But then today, we "harvest" deer and need range finders, food plots, tree stands and lasers and want to poleaxe every animal we shoot regardless of how much meat we screw up. Around here, I could kill a dozen deer a day with a 32-20.