That’s what Ron did. I haven’t seen him post in a few years though. He’d sleeve DE mags into straight body 20s to use as an adapter. Uppers were $1000 or so back then.

Love my 44 mag !

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Sadly they do not make those any more and they were kinda one off customs back then.

I remember a thread on here at some point and these were brought up. The bolt face is so large, the lugs are basically a picket fence. I think the guy said there was a problem with the lugs breaking off after some hard use.
I think he also said he had no plans of making any more.  

I think if a company was to do it, and do it right, the better choice would be to design a new bolt and barrel extension that uses 3 lugs. Pretty much just like the desert eagle, only the bolt fits in a standard AR bolt carrier.
Or heck, design a new carrier that just uses a desert eagle bolt.

Simply Rugged is good to go:

https://www.simplyrugged.com/store/Cartridge-Cuff-p595091299

If Firefly is remade, they should get you for the armorer position.

I need a lever 357 threaded for a Form1 clone of No Country For Old Men, even though it was a shotgun silencer in that movie.

I just posted it because of the mags.

Problem is factory loaded ammo. They would skip that and go to 350 legend.

Better off with 360 Buckhammer, which Henry is chambering.

My latest addition in .357




I have a Remlin in .44 but its a turds, won't cycle .44spc. I can't find a competent smith in my area to fix it.

@AeroE might be able to chime in on a solution.  My Remlin .44 Mag rifle would cycle .44 Specials just fine.  But I had smoothed out the action including fixing the dreaded "Marlin Jam":  http://ktgunsmith.com/marlinjam.htm

My father had an original 1892 in 44-40. It was an early model with a 4 digit serial number. It was used in the settling of central Utah. It was in about the shape you think a pioneer rifle would be in. But still functional. The action was very smooth. With almost a hundred years of use. My little brother got it when Dad passed and I got the 1940’s 30-30. Which I have given to my son. But I really liked the old 44-40. So I found a Rossi someone had for sale in 38-357, and bought it. It’s a fun little gun as it was owned by someone that did a little CAS with it. So it’s a little smoother than an out of box model. And the bolt safety was removed. Over the last few years I’ve really wanted an 1873 in 38-357. I finally got mine this weekend. A carbine version Uberti. I really like it and it shoots pretty accurate. It even has a flip up long range rear sight. I shot both 357 and 38 through it. The flip up sight is calibrated to 357. So you just about go up another hundred when shooting 38 over a hundred yards. Yeah you’re likely not going to kill anything under 200yds but it’s fun to test the reach. Which was about 300. for where we were shooting. The downside to the Uberti is the horrendous 10# trigger pull.
In comparison the two are both fairly accurate to 100 yards. The 1873 flip up sight gives it an advantage over the Rossi in longer distances. The fit and finish of the guns are night and day. Hands down the Uberti wins in this department. But the weird thing about both rifles are that neither one has a consistent finish. The Rossi has a case hardened receiver but everything else is blued. The Uberti has a blued finish but the Lever and trigger are case hardened. I don’t get that. Not sure if that was a thing in the 1800’s, or just being lazy with the new production stuff? Bottom line, pistol cartridge rifles can be fun to shoot. Hopefully I can get the trigger pull issue figured out with a lighter hammer spring on the 1873.

Any of you clowns bought a G-Force Huckleberry in 357?   I've watched a few of the YouTube videos, but I'm curious if anybody also owns a Rossi R92 and has some longer term experience for comparison?

my lever/single action combo:

.357 Maximum.  I have a bunch of cases and even some reloads. I got it in estate sale. Waiting to run across somebody who actually shot it.

The .360 makes a lot of sense to me.

200 at 2200’ ought to be easy from a 20”. 2300 might be possible with lil’gun.

Several shots of that ought to fix most anything.

If I didn't already have a .45/70 and a .44 magnum lever gun, I'd be looking into that.  Ohio is a straight walled rifle cartridge state.

It's been awhile since I had it worked on but it would lock up & you would have to push the next round back into the tube with a small screwdriver thru the loading gate to get the action to cycle.
It would be my preference to send it off to a qualified smith to have the work done. I mean, I know my limitations. I can't in good conscious send it down the road to make it someone else's problem.

Getting ready to load the last .44 magnum hunting ammo that I'll have to load for a few years.  It took nearly constant phone calls to Swift Bullets, but I managed to buy a bunch of their 240 grain A-Frame hollow points.  I'm going to load 250, and give 50 each to two of my buddies.  The remaining 150 should last at least ten seasons of hunting.

Got a couple each loaded at 23.4, 23.7 and 24.0 grains of H110.  If there are no bad pressure signs at 24.0, I figure I'll probably get 1700+ fps out of my 16" Winchester 94.  They are purty boolitz.

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Thread makes me sad.  

I’m thinking my next gun will be a Marlin 1894 sbl .357 to go with my revolvers and 77/357.

Now if only reloading components were cheaper up here.

\I really like my Rossi 92 in 357. It's a lot of fun.

You shouldn’t see any @ 24 .0 grains, but it’s always best to step down a bit. I load all my 240 grain bullets with 24 gr. of H110. You should probably see 1750 fps.

That's what I figured, but this is my first time with Swift A-frames out of a rifle.  Should be a deer grenade.  

Next, I'll be loading some .45 Colts with 300 grain A-frames, maybe for next year with revolver.  Should be able to to get 1400 fps pretty easily out of my oversized cylinder Blackhawk.

Yep.  Poor guy is gone.

False.

44-40 and 38-40 were extremely common lever guns.  In fact it took quite some time for 30-30 to surpass 44-40.  Also while 44-40 was originally a blackpowder load (44 caliber bullet on 40 grains of black powder) there were "Hi Velocity" and other 'rifle only' loads loaded with smokeless powder and loaded hot.

This was true of lever guns in 44-40, 38-40, 32-20, and 25-20  - all were blackpowder rounds that had a longer life using smokeless powder and in a lever gun quite common in the 1890s-1940s

These tended to have not survived WW2, but had a long life.

*I suppose you could say that all of these were rifle cartridges that were loaded in handguns rather than handgun cartridge loaded in rifles

I didn't even realize Beamy was the OP here.    Rest well.

Have a Browning 92 in 44. It really seems to like 300grain jsp. Feeds swc OK but haven't found a load that groups well. Going to try 295grain swc gas checks.

In my younger days I had a couple Winchester 92s in 25-20. Great small game cartridge that could be beefed up a bit by handloading. But hand loading those dainty little bottleneck cases was a pain compared with the 44.

Uh bro, the man is no longer with us. This was bumped in memorium

Happy to see it bumped, not many threads with multiple people buying IMI Timberwolfs these days

Dang, I didn't even realize it.  I bumped it.

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I have a Rossi R92 in .357 that is also my favorite.
It’s so light and handy, feels like a Red Rider, lol.

Accurate, reliable, can shoot mouse fart .38’s, or Buffalo Bore .357 slammers.

Center, saddle ring. But as you can see I’m a lever fan