Hunting Washington Forum
Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: MountainWalk on April 14, 2008, 04:50:37 PM
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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?
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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
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if i were to have a side by side rifle, it would have to be a rimmed cartridge.
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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.
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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...?
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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.
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yeah it would be cool to learn how to do.
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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?
