page_title: 7.62×38mmR
section_title: Handloading
hierarchical_section_title: 7.62×38mmR / Handloading
caption_attribution_description: English: Military 7.62x38R ammunition. Carton: revol'vernyye / patrony / kalibra 7.62mm / 14 shtuka ("Revolver / Cartridges / 7.62mm Caliber / 14 Rounds")
context_page_description: 7.62×38mmR is an ammunition cartridge designed for use in the Russian Nagant M1895 revolver.
  A small number of experimental submachine guns, designed by Fedor Tokarev, were also produced in a 7.62 mm Nagant chambering. None, however, were accepted into Soviet service.
context_section_description: Many users of this caliber handload their own ammunition, though the proper brass cases are also expensive and difficult to come by. However, Starline has been developing and perfecting brass for the cartridge, and handloaders have had success using dies for the .32-20 and .30 Carbine to handload the rounds. 32-20 brass cases are inexpensive, readily available, and can be reformed and used safely in guns chambered for 7.62×38R, but the resulting cartridges are too short to achieve the gas seal. Cut down 223 brass reformed in 30 carbine dies can be utilized to load for the Nagant also. These will achieve the gas seal, but case rims will be undersized.
  Three other cartridges—.32 S&W, .32 S&W Long, and .32 H&R Magnum—will also generally chamber and fire in the revolver, but will not achieve the gas seal. The case head of the .32 S&W/H&R is about the same size as the case diameter of the Nagant cartridge, so the case head will sometimes actually end up moving into the chamber, thus preventing an adequate primer strike. Due to the dimensional differences between these cartridges and the original 7.62×38R cartridge, this practice is done at the shooter's own risk. The .32 H&R Magnum in particular develops much higher pressures than the 7.62 Nagant or either of the .32 S&W cartridges, which are both late 19th century developments. The most common anomaly when firing these cartridges is bulged cases.
caption: 7.62x38R military ammunition
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