Does anyone have any updates?
Load development?
Component availability?
Does anyone know why the Federal component brass suddenly vanished from vendor lists a few weeks ago? (It's no longer listed as a future product anywhere I've looked, and the vendors wont talk. It vanished from the sites I check, just days before it was supposed to be available - Aug 1.)
I left a message on Federal's customer service line, and sent an email. Hopefully, they will give a straight answer.
Like a few other forum members here, I got shot down by Freedom Arms. They asked for my .224-327 serial number, when I tried ordering the brass.
So, I have to wait for another source. (And I am really hoping to avoid Federal. Their prices are ridiculous. The .327 brass was listed at $38 per 50, before it vanished.)
In regards to my previous issues with the MagTech 71 grain FMJs:
I was finally able to get some loaded. The MagTech .32 S&W Long brass is absolutely, completely incapable of enough tension to hold the bullets. It seems to have too much spring-back. Actual .327 brass, however, works just fine.
Right now, I've got some of the FMJs sitting on 6.0 grains of HP-38, and 5.0 grains of Trail Boss, at an OAL of 1.505". I'll let you know how they do in the Blackhawk when I get a chance.