Had a conversation with Jesse Ocumpaugh at JES reboring about the conversion. There are feeding issues he has to address so the conversion cost will be $275 instead of $225. That'll up my total cost to $500. Jesse suggested there were fewer feeding problems with his wildcat .405 JES but we'd be looking at adding the cost of dies to the total and resale on wildcats just isn't there.
If I find a good .444 used I may just buy it and sell the .30-30. The other suggestion from Jesse was that the cheaper Glenfields made up into .444's easier than other Marlins. I guess I'll be shopping for a while. If nothing turns up, he'll get the current .30-30 to get a bigger hole in the barrel in January.
