45lc to 44/40????

[Slamfire]

I have a chance to trade for a uberti 73 oct.,20in.,carbine, how hard to make into a 44/40? New barrel  ,or linner, or what??Sorry,,,, it's a 45lc,shoots great, all my other guns are 44/40.







         Hootmix.

[Pettifogger]

All you need is a new barrel.  The bolt, carrier and other parts are the same as the .45 Colt. However, check the price and more importantly the availability of a new barrel.  Many Uberti parts are in short supply.  By the time you buy the rifle and the barrel the cost may be more than just looking for a .44-40 in the first place. Especially if you don't swap the barrel yourself and have to pay to have it done.

[Grapeshot]

30 years ago I purchased a Navy Arms/Uberti 1873 Carbine in .44-40 and had it rebarreled to .45 Colt.  I had my gunsmith order a Douglas .45 caliber barrel and he chambered it for the .45 Colt cartridge.

If I am not mistaken, he also told Douglas it was for a '73 and had them contour the barrel for my carbine stock.  He tren transfered the sights from the .44 barrel to the .45 barrel.  At the time the barrel and work done cost me $280.00.

It may be more than that now.

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[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

All you need is a new barrel.  YABUT!!!!  By the time you buy the rifle and the barrel the cost may be more than just looking for a .44-40 in the first place. Especially if you don't swap the barrel yourself and have to pay to have it done.

It is MUCH cheaper to get the one you want right off the start.

[Slamfire]

Yep!, to all ya"ll's answers, but it was just one of those questions we weak minded( and money misers) just have to bring up, if only to get something in the wind.  Bless everyone!!!






    hootnix.

[Pappy Myles]

Is that the rifle or the carbine?  Try VTI gun parts. the 19" 44/40 barrel (at this time ) goes for about 235 and the 20" 44/40 oct barrel is about 255.    I have a 24 inch rifle I converted from a 45 colt to a 44/40.  Oct barrel.   Why you ask?   oh  just wanted to I guess, plus be a little more original in rifle cartridges.  It was a DYI project.  All the other parts fit (pretty much interchangable 45 colt / 44-40).  I did have to add to my arsenal of gunsmith tools an barrel vise and block.  Got that from brownells for about 200.   Screwed right out and the other barrel screwed right in.  I did have to stone the chamber end a tad as there was a little burr and a rough spot on the barrel that wouldnt allow the bolt to close completly.   I you don't know the interworking of a 73, and want to learn, its a great way of doing so, assuming you dont bugger up the parts.  All in all, I think I spent about $500 including a couple of new tools to convert mine.

[Slamfire]

Howdy , Pappy, sometimes the prize ain't near as grand, as the journey gett'n there,,, no what i meen.

 






       hootnix

[Pappy Myles]

Absolutly hootmix, absolutly.

That and when you get one right, there is a tad of self pride in Wow, I did that!!!!!!

[Slamfire]

That's what i'm talk'n bout,,,self pride( the journey), thanks "PAPPY".









     Hootnix.