Anyone thought of...

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nwobhm

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Buying a Ruger Alaskan in 480 Ruger and having it converted to a five shot 475 Linebaugh/ 480 Ruger?

I don't see the point to the 480 Alaskan unless it shoots the 475.

Does anyone know a compitent gunsmith that is capable of quality workmanship that would do this?

If I had it done I would also want the gun to have a caliber roll mark to reflect it's capabilites with the 475 next to the 480. Something comparible to what Ruger did on the 454/45 Alaskan.

I would like the entire job to appear as though it were a Ruger factory gun.
 
I have looked at and drooled over the various options at both wild west guns and Bowden Custom Pistols, a quick google search will let you find either one, if I recall correctly Bowen does the bigger cal convershion as 5 shot, I think that in the 480 wild west does a 6 shot though I may be very wrong on that point, none of the guns and mods I saw listed were specific to the Alaskan though as I'm sure you are well aware it's jsut a super redhawk so I would assume that most of what they do to other forms of the SRH goes for the Alaskan and there was mention on the Bowen sight about developing better sights and lanyard rings and such for the alaskan.

For my bucks I'd like to re-barrel an alaskan in 454 with jsut enough barrel past the frame extenshion to allow an effective porting to controll what has got to be a mother of recoil with full 454 ammo.

I have seen one well used Bowden and the workmanship was fantastic, Wild West has some awsome other products as well and has been spoken highly by more than just random people in forums, specificly I recall reading prasie for his guide rifle from Jeff Cooper, though I have not had a chance to hold anything in my hands. Both websites are quite good and would provide a lot of information.

So far as trying to make it look like a ruger factory piece you would have to talk to them about that, I like rugers a lot but what you see and whay you can get from these guys will be way better than a "factory" finish etc., look at the website you will see.
 
WW does do a 475 conversion on the SRH. They just bore the cylinder. Just doesn't seem like the thing to do. Ruger would have done it if it were that easy, so why O why is WW doing it? Seems kinda dangerous. I'm sure they know there business but it makes me a little nervous and they WON'T let you talk to the gunsmith or give any kind of reasonable explanation regarding the mod other than "he he... were doin' it" and that is an EXACT quote from when I called a couple weeks ago. I would prefer a 5 shot that isn't going to have a problem.
 
Called Bowen today... Just the cylinder conversion to 5 shot and changing the roll mark from 480 to both is:

$1,200

and that doesn't include the cost of the gun. I'm in the wrong business.

HOLY CRAP!
 
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