Best rifle for a 445 chambering?

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azredhawk44

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I love the 44mag. It's a great cartridge.

I would like to get a 44mag rifle, but I want a big bore rifle with a bit more ZING to it... more along the lines of 454casull or 45-70.

I've heard of the 445 supermag pistol that Dan Wesson puts out, and this sounds like the right cartridge for what I want... a 300gr bullet around 1800-2200 fps out of a rifle is what I am looking for, and if I can get away from buying new dies that would make me quite happy. Also, if I can use my plinking 240gr LSWC bullets in both my handgun loads and my rifle loads, that would make me even happier.

Can a rifle barrel's chamber be reamed out to accomodate the 445 supermag if it was originally chambered for 44mag? What rifle would be the "best" candidate for such an operation? I favor lever guns and I am left handed, and I would suspect that a marlin or winchester would be best. I'd prefer to have a magazine of some sort, so I'd prefer to stay away from the H&R single shot rifles.

Would a lever gun have feed issues with the extra cartridge length? Are there any bolt action 44mag rifles out there (lefty or righty)? Anyone here successfully done this?
 
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I have been talking to a number of lever gun specialists as I want to accomplish the same set-up. The weapon in question is a Winchester Trapper Large loop model currently chambered for .44 magnum. I have one respondent who states

"I recomend a barrel change to get the required twist as I believe that the Trapper has a 1 and 38 twist where as you need a 1 and 20 twist to stabilize the heavier bullets that will make the 445 shine, barrel and action conversion with reblue would be $475. I don't recomend a rechamber to original barrel as accuracy would be dismal, to bad the factorys use that slow twist and no reason to do it because this could be a reasonable conversion. Have a great day Regan"


If you are seriously interested, his name is Regan Nonneman and his contact info is leveractions@grantcity.net

Hope this helps.
 
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