CZ93X62
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.....better known as the 7.65 MAS pistol, the M1935 French service sidearm. I have had my example for about 30 years, and I suspect it was brought back from Viet Nam by a service member who found it in-country. The sights are kind of vestigial, but if you tend to your business the pistol is pretty accurate. My load (Unique powder) runs a cast Lyman #313249 at about 1050 FPS. These ballistics make the pistol pretty handy for small game and varmints, and it has rolled its share of same over the years.
The M-1935 MAS pistols are a locked-breech design that borrows heavily from Browning and a bit from the Tokarev, which also plagiarized Browning shamelessly. There are some videos on Youtube regarding these pistols, which do a more detailed and time-consuming story on these little jewels. I scrounged up two magazines to fit the pistol from Triple K in San Diego without much fuss and bother, so getting the pistol field-ready wasn't much of a chore.
Ammo was a bit more problematic. I have a partial box of corrosive-primed French milsurp ball ammo that came with the pistol, and in ran 5 of those through the pistol and over the chronograph as velocity exemplars. That is how the "1050 FPS" standard was set.
Ammo has not been loaded in any major amount since 1950. Brass is similarly scarce. Most of what can be found is reworked 32 S&W Long brass, to which a rimless case head is machined. Reloading dies for either 32 ACP or 32 S&W Long work well once brass is located. The ball ammo's bullet weight is 85 grains, which the RN #313249 hits exactly. Charge weight was worked up with Unique from 32 ACP data, adding 0.1 grain at a time until the proper charge was found. (ETA--RCBS makes a caliber-specific shell holder for this round. Mine came from Huntington's Die Specialties for not a whole lot of money).
Just another member of my safe's Weird Caliber Cavalcade.
The M-1935 MAS pistols are a locked-breech design that borrows heavily from Browning and a bit from the Tokarev, which also plagiarized Browning shamelessly. There are some videos on Youtube regarding these pistols, which do a more detailed and time-consuming story on these little jewels. I scrounged up two magazines to fit the pistol from Triple K in San Diego without much fuss and bother, so getting the pistol field-ready wasn't much of a chore.
Ammo was a bit more problematic. I have a partial box of corrosive-primed French milsurp ball ammo that came with the pistol, and in ran 5 of those through the pistol and over the chronograph as velocity exemplars. That is how the "1050 FPS" standard was set.
Ammo has not been loaded in any major amount since 1950. Brass is similarly scarce. Most of what can be found is reworked 32 S&W Long brass, to which a rimless case head is machined. Reloading dies for either 32 ACP or 32 S&W Long work well once brass is located. The ball ammo's bullet weight is 85 grains, which the RN #313249 hits exactly. Charge weight was worked up with Unique from 32 ACP data, adding 0.1 grain at a time until the proper charge was found. (ETA--RCBS makes a caliber-specific shell holder for this round. Mine came from Huntington's Die Specialties for not a whole lot of money).
Just another member of my safe's Weird Caliber Cavalcade.
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