A very good steel that seldom requires heat treatment for such things as screws and firing pins. When the lever got that loose, we stopped and shot it no more for that day.ДЄ new breech block pivot screw was made from Stress proof. It should be noted that at no time did we see excessive headspace or anything that would really send up danger signs, the action just got loose and the finger lever would droop. Accuracy improved a bit but this time the factory breech block pivot screw started bending. Moving along we then tried the Lyman 311252 and the Lee 90300 with 1.7 gn. Trajectory was about like a thrown cast iron skillet. They were fired from the hip at the 100 yard target frame quickly just to recover the brass, the day was cloudy and dull and the bullets were actually seen in flight. Remaining shells loaded with these loads were shot up in a Ruger SS to recover brass. The Herco wouldn't get the bullet out of the barrel reliably and accuracy was 3' 30 yards. After the new link was made and installed again this bullet was tried but this time with 1 gn. Also this load was put on the chronograph and velocities ran from 488 to 792. This time the link stretched and a new one was made from Starret stock Rc 40. Thinking perhaps the lighter bullet would put less stress on action parts. The next try was with Lyman 313249 and again, the 1 gn. This in turn led to bending the link pins, so new pins were fitted made from 3/16' hardened dowel pins. 310, too tight and requiring too much pressure to 'push' through the bore. Later this was determined to be because of the bullet dia. One, the load was too light, a couple of bullets not exiting the barrel. The first loadings were with The Lyman 3118 ( to hopefully match the twist of the LeverMatic barrel in the. No more was expected of it than a run of the mill. Accuracy at 25 to 50 yards was all that was expected and with the potential power of perhaps taking small game at close range. I knew we were dealing with a very low pressure action and all loads had to be kept as low as possible. A lot of time was spent looking over loads and load combinations. Casings were found and dies and a couple of molds procured. The rifle was restocked, blued and sights fitted. The rimfire breech block was converted to center fire. I made my own chamber reamer and from the casting, it looked tight and proper. Both are about the same size and Dominion and a few others made smokeless loads in the rimfire so why not ? Wanting to try this idea a number of years ago I picked up a rough but very usable 1915 action and Numrich at the time was selling the Marlin LeverMatic barrels in 30 carbine, I picked up 2.ДЄs time went on, the action was looked over and deemed to be in very good condition and a barrel was tightly fitted. The reasoning behind the idea is seemingly sound.

Frank deHaas even mentioned it in some of his writings but admitted he had never done it. For years now I have heard of the possibility of converting a Stevens Favorite from the.

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