To start with, I have never handled a Handi rifle, and am not overly familiar with any sport type rifles manufactured after the 1940's.
I would like to know if the 3006 handi rifle action is capable of accepting (with some fitting) a handi 12 gauge barrel? I like the idea of being able to carry a single gun with two barrels, one in 3006 and one in 12 gauge. Is this feasible, reasonable, even possible? I assume the same action is used, however the greater thrust of the 3006 leads me to suspect that something has to have been altered to make the gun capable of handling the more concentrated back thrust of the 3006.
This thread is about determining how close the rifle receivers made post yr 2000 designated SB-2 are to the SB-1 shotgun/rifle receivers, and thus, how likely it is that an SB-1 shotgun barrel could be mounted on the stronger SB-2 receiver. If there is a thread that deals with this somewhere I apologise, but I haven't found it yet. I am not interested in shipping back and forth to the states.
Edit: I found some info through the link Calum posted. Seems the frames are almost all the same and the difference is in tempering.
http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/index.php/topic,228766.msg1099269851.html#msg1099269851
This theory that the frames are very similar in dimensions (but NOT THE SAME STRENGTH) comes from this link where a .223 barrel is attached to a shotgun receiver, causing the primer to fail and blow out rearwards along with the firing pin and some of the hammer. In this case the larger firing pin and pin hole are to blame, but illustrates the dangers of using a shotgun receiver for a rifle round with higher pressure:
http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/index.php/topic,121724.msg1098413838.html#msg1098413838
All this is excepting the 10ga/12ga SB2-980 seems to be some sort of shotgun only hybrid. There isn't much info but it seems to be an offshoot meant to handle higher pressure/bigger/longer shotgun loads. I'm not at all sure though, as the post is poorly written.
A good discussion on determining the differences between the SB1 pistol/shotgun frames and SB2 large rifle frames:
http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/index.php/topic,80979.msg498556.html#msg498556
After all this I'm still not totally sure how strait forward it is to put an SB1 12 gauge barrel onto an SB2 rifle receiver, but it looks like it isn't impossible.
I would like to know if the 3006 handi rifle action is capable of accepting (with some fitting) a handi 12 gauge barrel? I like the idea of being able to carry a single gun with two barrels, one in 3006 and one in 12 gauge. Is this feasible, reasonable, even possible? I assume the same action is used, however the greater thrust of the 3006 leads me to suspect that something has to have been altered to make the gun capable of handling the more concentrated back thrust of the 3006.
This thread is about determining how close the rifle receivers made post yr 2000 designated SB-2 are to the SB-1 shotgun/rifle receivers, and thus, how likely it is that an SB-1 shotgun barrel could be mounted on the stronger SB-2 receiver. If there is a thread that deals with this somewhere I apologise, but I haven't found it yet. I am not interested in shipping back and forth to the states.
Edit: I found some info through the link Calum posted. Seems the frames are almost all the same and the difference is in tempering.
http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/index.php/topic,228766.msg1099269851.html#msg1099269851
This theory that the frames are very similar in dimensions (but NOT THE SAME STRENGTH) comes from this link where a .223 barrel is attached to a shotgun receiver, causing the primer to fail and blow out rearwards along with the firing pin and some of the hammer. In this case the larger firing pin and pin hole are to blame, but illustrates the dangers of using a shotgun receiver for a rifle round with higher pressure:
http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/index.php/topic,121724.msg1098413838.html#msg1098413838
All this is excepting the 10ga/12ga SB2-980 seems to be some sort of shotgun only hybrid. There isn't much info but it seems to be an offshoot meant to handle higher pressure/bigger/longer shotgun loads. I'm not at all sure though, as the post is poorly written.
A good discussion on determining the differences between the SB1 pistol/shotgun frames and SB2 large rifle frames:
http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/index.php/topic,80979.msg498556.html#msg498556
After all this I'm still not totally sure how strait forward it is to put an SB1 12 gauge barrel onto an SB2 rifle receiver, but it looks like it isn't impossible.
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