Yeah, it works fine with the little rimfires it was made for, but for anything warmer, it's a little rickety.
When you guys say you rechamber and convert these .32 RF guns for ".32 S&W" do you mean the original shorter round or the .32 S&W Long?
I could see the Long in a Marlin, but some of the European "Olympic" (autoloader) loads for it are fairly warm, maybe a little too hot for a Favorite? Even the commonly available Fiocchi wadcutters are hotter than normal US loads.
Yes Mike A., the .32 Smith and Wesson LONG....
for the Marlins........Way, way to hot for a Stevens Favorite and I don't think anybody is converting Stevens Favorites to anything..........at least I sure wouldn't.......far to weak of an action and thumb screw barrel set up. As I said in an earlier post on this thread, I've rebuilt quite a few over the years, but they all stayed with the original caliber they were built for.....some with new Numrich barrels, but the same original caliber, usually .22 rimfire.
The factory .32 S&W loads are handgun loads, European and/or American. With handloads there is some good data usable in "rifles" rechambered to .32 S&W, which makes one hell of a good small game round
in a rifle.....dead nuts accurate.
