I posted the below in another area of the forum and got no replies yet, so I am asking the smithy guys, hopefully one of you has some kind of ideas or thoughts about it.
{pasted from another postin I made} ""Ok guys, this is probably a dumb question. I was going to ask my local gunsmith/friend but haven't seen him when he has a free moment so here goes.
I bought a J. P. Sauer and Sohn L.A. WESTERN SIX-SHOOTER model at the last gun show here in town. I have had one ot two before, cool full sized single actions in .22 are lots of fun to me, and these old hunks of iffy junk are cheap and fun to play with. So with a loose barrel and broken grips I looked around on the web finding parts and came accross lots of centerfire barrles and cylenders. I'm a .357 magnum fan and am curious if I can convert this to shoot .357? Its a steel frame gun, and the cylender window is long enough to support them (pretty basic check I held a .38 special up to the cylender and had lots of room left over, probably 3/4 of an inch) ""
{pasted from another postin I made} ""Ok guys, this is probably a dumb question. I was going to ask my local gunsmith/friend but haven't seen him when he has a free moment so here goes.
I bought a J. P. Sauer and Sohn L.A. WESTERN SIX-SHOOTER model at the last gun show here in town. I have had one ot two before, cool full sized single actions in .22 are lots of fun to me, and these old hunks of iffy junk are cheap and fun to play with. So with a loose barrel and broken grips I looked around on the web finding parts and came accross lots of centerfire barrles and cylenders. I'm a .357 magnum fan and am curious if I can convert this to shoot .357? Its a steel frame gun, and the cylender window is long enough to support them (pretty basic check I held a .38 special up to the cylender and had lots of room left over, probably 3/4 of an inch) ""