Lilred's Rant of the Week-Ruger

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Originally posted by Calif Hunter
Wow - that double .41 mag sounds cool. Having 3 handguns for that round, it is intriguing. Who makes it, or was it a custom item? I'm sure it was very expensive!

It looked to me like lilred is saying she is a woman... Hossess?

The little rifle was built by me on a little s/s Lurona 20 ga shotgun, that had it's barrels blown at the muzzles by some dope trying to shoot snow out of the barrels! I cut the barrels off just 3" in front of the breach, opened the side of each chamber end of the shot barrels and silver soldered two Shilen 18 1/2" 41 cal barrel blanks in place,after chambering then with the rim flush with face of the barrel end, forming a shoelump connection, regulated the barrels to shoot a good composite group on paper, and layed the ribs, then checked the regulation again, and filed in the express sights from NECG, and that was about it! Then the new extractors were made and fitted, and the barrels rust blued!

Of course it wasn't quite that simple, but you get the idea! It would take a book to explain the whole process.

The cost was $75 bucks for the damaged shotgun, about $425 for the barrel blanks, another $200 for sights, and rib stock, and my time! Under $1000 dollars,for the parts, and my time which was around 200 hours, ready to hunt. Now if you have someone do this work who understands how it is done, then you are looking at around $7K out the door! If you have a double rifle action, JJ Paradoue at Champlins will build you a set of barrels for $7K + ammo for regulating!