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32NAA

Postby INOR on Fri Apr 06, 2018 8:39 pm

Anyone familiar with this or shoot it? Supposedly a .380 necked down to .32? Have a company that reached out to me trying to sell me a 32NAA barrel for my little LCP. Plug and play ready I guess. They’re telling me that the ballistics are better than .380. I’ve never even heard of this round until they emailed me today.


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Re: 32NAA

Postby Ghost on Fri Apr 06, 2018 8:49 pm

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32NAA

Postby INOR on Sat Apr 07, 2018 6:08 am

Thanks. Yeah, probably not for me. It’s interesting. Would offer a little more punch out of the same size cartridge but ammo availability came to mind immediately, as the author of that article also pointed out.

And I looked at the retail price of the barrel they want to sell. $269. Yikes. I’m thinking if it’s a hot little round and becomes more popular and available, why wouldn’t Ruger and some of the other .380 players just start producing them? If this barrel was in the $125 range, I’d probably try it just for the heck of it. But not for the price that you pay for a new LCPII or other small framed .380.


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Re: 32NAA

Postby Ghost on Sat Apr 07, 2018 6:11 am

Looks like a smaller lighter faster projectile that still has equivalent energy as 380 but costs more to shoot.
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Re: 32NAA

Postby Holland&Holland on Sat Apr 07, 2018 1:18 pm

Ghost wrote:Looks like a smaller lighter faster projectile that still has equivalent energy as 380 but costs more to shoot.


I know, I love cartridges like that :P
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Re: 32NAA

Postby Sigfan220 on Sun Apr 08, 2018 12:50 pm

They had a 25 and 32 version using different parent cases. I think at this level of performance you are just splitting hairs. I'd just get a 380 and call it a day. If you want more power/penetration get a 9mm. Pocket guns don't really have enough power in my mind to worry about things like foot pounds energy or penetration. My backup is a 32acp. I may up it to a 380 this year, we will see. I think either would be fine as a backup, but the guns I'm looking at only come in 380 and not 32.
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