shotgun to rifle

[MountainWalk]

has anyone seen or heard of plans to convert side by side shotguns into rifles?  a few years back i seen a manual on how to do it. im no machine shop worker, so i didnt buy it. now i wish i kinda did. i would love to have a side by side 30-30, or 45-70.

anyone ever hear of this procedure?

[addicted]

i saw a guy wack an alaskan brown bear on tv with a side by side rifle. dont remember if it was 300 winny or a rummy

[MountainWalk]

if i were to have a side by side rifle, it would have to be a rimmed cartridge.

[MountainWalk]

to me, that would be just the coolest westside deer gun. short and responsive and it would just fly to your shoulder like a good little bird gun. BANG!BANG! 30-30 would be cool, and its rimmed so extraction would be perfect.

i have a little 12 bore sidebyside that shoots win. two and three quarter one ounce slugs to 2-3 inch groups at 50 yards with both barrels shot respectivly. it makes a fine close range gun for bear.  i myself prefer double triggers.

[bankwalker]

i think converting a 410 to 45 long colt would be cool. dont really know the purpose of it other then being fun. and maybe being a little brush gun...

idk what other calibers you could do that with. plus most shotgun barrel would be to thin of a wall for the powerful rifle calibers...?

[MountainWalk]

yes, the barrels are too thin, but this book had some way of addressing the problem. who knows how he does it? but it would be neat.

[bankwalker]

yeah it would be cool to learn how to do.

[littletoes]

I'd seen rifled inserts that reduce bore to smaller shotgun sizes, but not rifle sizes. I imagine you could do the same, but it'd be tricky with the firing pin protrusion, and getting the cartriges centered properly.

Pressures are way different between rifles and shotguns, but I imagine anything can be done?