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Well im up to no good ! Im looking for a heavyweight 30-30 takedown barrel,the bore doesn't have to be good but the chamber area does. it could be rusty a bit on the outside ,i can clean that up. I probably could get by with a solid frame heavy weight barrel but it needs to be in 30-30 for my project. anyone here have one they would part with ? Don

Do I smell a .35-30 in the making?

Gary, that to easy!! nope 414 supermag, the reamer will just clean up a 30-30,but a 303 savage is to large a diameter just under the rim to clean up. It figures i have 2 303 barrels I can get the supermag to pretty much duplicate 401 ballistics, it can headspace on the rim ,and brass and bullets are readily available in .410 diameter . thats why i need a heavy barrel because of the bore diameter. i want to be able to swap barrels in this.

The old 414 Supermag.

That's a new one on me. I googled it so I know everything about it now.

If nothing else it will certainly be an interesting rifle.

Oh boy!

I thought I could help so I went digging in my heap-o-treasures thinking I had a .30-30 barrel and only came up with a derelict cut down 1899A .303 barrel.

Can you take some off (maybe .35 to .5") the rear of a .303 barrel and make it work or does that add to much extra machining? (no experience in this area)

What is the current caliber of the rifle. Will it cycle through the rotor as is?

Rick, It would be a lot of extra machining to set back and rethread the barrel. The cartridge is shorter so it sets in the rotor with the bullet tip where the shoulder cutout area is. I cycled a 401 winchester(about the same dimension) thru one rifle in 303 and another in 300 and they seemed just fine. I may have to tweek the cartridge guide a bit but they laid in the spool area fine. I do have a mystery rifle i thought about using but you and i both looked at it and couldnt figure out what model it is.Heavy barrel takedown 24" barrel in 30-30 ,but s/m in the 224,000 range to early for a "G" but pistol gripped and checkered,barrel to long for a short rifle to early for a 99D. Sooo i'm kinda inclind to leave that one alone for now. Don

I need large rifle magnum primers, and probly other stuff I can't even imagine at the moment, but I got it Don. Get me your address.

Some thoughts on Don's conversion to throw out to the general forum-

First, I love the idea of a 99 big boreAlso, I have been toying with a way to fire shot out of a 99 rifle barrel in 375 Winchester. Then the 450 Bushmaster, idea same thing, now this 414 is real interesting.

Unfortunately, the 414 case is both shorter and a few thousandths smaller in diameter than a 2 1/2" 410 shotshell. Shorter might be able to be remedied by chambering the 414 barrel with some freebore, or making custom short 410 shells??? But what about diameter? Could the 410 components be loaded in 414 brass and used as a shotshell? The idea of shooting shotgun shells in a rifle comes about because of grouse. The cursed little beasts are the bane of my existance, always trying to figure out how to shoot them while bear hunting.....


All in all, this 414 is a great idea for a 99.

41 magnum shot cartridges !!

Roy, troublesome grouse and squirrels are why God gave us Colt Woodsmans to wear on our hips.


Following these big bore ventures closely. I'm interested from an academic viewpoint even though I lean more and more toward lighter cartridges as I rush headlong toward the Golden Years.

One and done!

Gary, I can barely hit a grouse in the neck with a scoped rifle, forget about a Colt Woodsman! How many cartridges do they hold and what are the odds for a "spray and pray" neck shot on one of the pencil necked bastards LOL? With my luck, not so much.

I went out and grabbed the 30-30 barrel and it has a note attached that it has a bulge in the chamber area. I do remember fitting it to a rifle and trying it but don't remember specific symptoms other than what the note says. Not sure it will work for Don's idea or not. ???

Throw it back on a rifle ,fire a 30-30 in it and measure the case.

OK, good idea