Remmy4477
04-01-2024, 09:12 PM
Been reading some of the threads about H&R/ NEF stub rifles and decided I'd like to build one.
So here's what I have and what I am thinking.
This nef pardner 12 gauge I picked up at a pawn shop, late 80's early 90's. Got it cheap, due to the stud for the forearm being broken off the barrel and missing. Was sitting on the discount rack with an inner tube and hose clamp around the barrel and forearm. You had to carry a screw driver with you on hunting trips so you could keep the forearm tight after each shot.
My dad fixed it with a large brass nut, filled it down to fit the barrel, silver soldered it onto the barrel and drilled and tapped the bottom of the nut, inletted the forearm for the bottom half of the nut added a good size tapered screw and it's never shot loose since.
Shotguns been sitting at the back of the gun cabinet for 12 years now collecting dust. All our old hunting grounds are now condo's and cookie cutter houses.
I have a bunch of 44 Colt ammo and brass with dies, the new stuff with the modern boolits.
Found an unknown barrel liner on ebay, 23 inches long, .790 in diameter, 6 grooves, left hand twist. Checked the twist rate 1:16, slugged the bore, just under .429 best I can measure. Thinking it might be a TJ's liner according to what I find on his liner list, listed as a colt 44-40. Pretty much matches the spec's
Found a gent local who can turn down the liner to fit the bore of the barrel. Just unsure about the chamber area? With the liner inserted into the chamber I can fit (tightly) two .006 feeler gauges, one on each side of the liner. So if I use acraglas to fit the liner into the barrel and chamber will that be enough to support the chamber with the 44 colt rounds?
Will be running both BP and smokeless rounds, but nothing over what my colt open top can handle.
Figured I'd at least ask about the support of the chamber before I start tearing things up!
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So here's what I have and what I am thinking.
This nef pardner 12 gauge I picked up at a pawn shop, late 80's early 90's. Got it cheap, due to the stud for the forearm being broken off the barrel and missing. Was sitting on the discount rack with an inner tube and hose clamp around the barrel and forearm. You had to carry a screw driver with you on hunting trips so you could keep the forearm tight after each shot.
My dad fixed it with a large brass nut, filled it down to fit the barrel, silver soldered it onto the barrel and drilled and tapped the bottom of the nut, inletted the forearm for the bottom half of the nut added a good size tapered screw and it's never shot loose since.
Shotguns been sitting at the back of the gun cabinet for 12 years now collecting dust. All our old hunting grounds are now condo's and cookie cutter houses.
I have a bunch of 44 Colt ammo and brass with dies, the new stuff with the modern boolits.
Found an unknown barrel liner on ebay, 23 inches long, .790 in diameter, 6 grooves, left hand twist. Checked the twist rate 1:16, slugged the bore, just under .429 best I can measure. Thinking it might be a TJ's liner according to what I find on his liner list, listed as a colt 44-40. Pretty much matches the spec's
Found a gent local who can turn down the liner to fit the bore of the barrel. Just unsure about the chamber area? With the liner inserted into the chamber I can fit (tightly) two .006 feeler gauges, one on each side of the liner. So if I use acraglas to fit the liner into the barrel and chamber will that be enough to support the chamber with the 44 colt rounds?
Will be running both BP and smokeless rounds, but nothing over what my colt open top can handle.
Figured I'd at least ask about the support of the chamber before I start tearing things up!
325332
325333
325334