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slug1977

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i have a shot out no4 mk 1 would it be a big project to change it to another caliber,.308 .45/70?is there a kit available in Canada.i have seen them in the u.s. but havenot been able to find one in Canada.cheers.
 
Don' try to inject logic into this! A 10rnd capacity 45/70 or .444 would make one hell of a bush rifle. There are barrel blanks available through various gunsmiths, they just need to have appropriate threads cut
 
slicknick said:
Don' try to inject logic into this! A 10rnd capacity 45/70 or .444 would make one hell of a bush rifle. There are barrel blanks available through various gunsmiths, they just need to have appropriate threads cut
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Sorry about the logic thing...I hear you but...building a custom rifle will always cost way more than you'll ever get back. As long as he knows that and never expects to get his money back...
 
A nifty idea is to get a pre-1897 Long Lee action and rebuild it as a single-shot in .444 or .45-70 or simolar caliber larger than 9mm. You can then de-register it as a single-shot antique ;)
 
slicknick said:
Don' try to inject logic into this! A 10rnd capacity 45/70 or .444 would make one hell of a bush rifle. There are barrel blanks available through various gunsmiths, they just need to have appropriate threads cut
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45/70 conversions I've seen reported don't have a ten round capacity anymore. Four is more common.
 
slicknick said:
Any reason why? I know that the mag's feed lips would have to be tweaked to feed reliably, but I don't see how that would diminish capacity by more than half.
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No, I don't know why. I haven't looked into it, that's just what I've seen of the few conversions I've seen reported. Perhaps because it was easier to convert the magazine to feeding a single stack from the centre than to get it to cope with staggering the different shape of the 45/70?
 
TheTooner said:
No, I don't know why. I haven't looked into it, that's just what I've seen of the few conversions I've seen reported. Perhaps because it was easier to convert the magazine to feeding a single stack from the centre than to get it to cope with staggering the different shape of the 45/70?
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It's because the 45-70 and .444 will not feed double stacked from an Enfield magazine. Compare the .303 with the two above rounds. .303, rimmed, fat base, tapering down to .311 and then to a point. 45-70 and .444, rimmed, big fat base, virtually no taper to a big fat flat nosed bullet. The geometry is simply not there.
 
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