I dropped by a local gun store today while out with my Mom.She stayed in the car so didn't browse too much, just checked out their loading supplies. Much to my surprise they had a baggie with 83 pieces of 32 Short Colt primed brass. With the asking price for primers being so high, the 20 cents or so apiece seemed reasonable. Now I've got access to calipers (sure miss my reference books) I find they are 0.315" external diameter, a very loose fit in the H&R chamber. So now to investigate what ever was chambered for this round. My hunch that it would be interchangeable with the S&W round appears to be wrong.

the short and long Colts are heeled bullets.

Not sure what all they were chambered for, but I do have some personal experience with them being different than the .32 S&W. I picked up a neat old adaptor, maybe a Marbles? Anyways it was to shoot .32 short Colt in a .30/30. At the time I didn’t have a .30/30, so I shipped it off to AK Church. He somehow found a box or two of the old .32 and has used it a little bit. He actually just recently sent me this picture!

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pin OR some Colt Police Positives or perhaps 1849 cartridge conversions...

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Sincerely,

Hobie

I have a 1907ish Colt "Pocket Positive in 32 Colt, and I even have about a half box of factory ammo left for it. The 32 Colts are indeed different from the 32 S&W/32 Colt New Police cartridges. I'm trying to convince myself to set up to reload for the old girl, but it's really expensive to buy 32 Colt dies and if you can even find them, you'll know you've accomplished something!

Yep, I can't recall ever seeing any, much less a mold for the bullets. Now I'm looking around a bit, "just in case".

I would look at the dies for the lyman 310 tool. You might get lucky there.