Well, I finished installing the Kirst Konverter in my 1 day old Remington. I bought the .45LC set-up used on a different forum. It is the ported version without a loading gate. And, I got an extra cylinder in .45 ACP too!
Everything went ok, but I ran into something unexpected; As I was grinding on the recoil shield, I discovered a couple of tiny air pockets in the metal. Obviously, defects when it was being cast. I had to remove a bit more metal from the lower part of the recoil shield than I really wanted to, but I was able to remove that flaw completely. You can see what remains of the other flaw in the top part of the recoil shield (a speck about the size of a pinhead).
Other than having a "hogged out" loading port (no problems loading or unloading cartridges here!), this one should make a fine shooter.
John
Everything went ok, but I ran into something unexpected; As I was grinding on the recoil shield, I discovered a couple of tiny air pockets in the metal. Obviously, defects when it was being cast. I had to remove a bit more metal from the lower part of the recoil shield than I really wanted to, but I was able to remove that flaw completely. You can see what remains of the other flaw in the top part of the recoil shield (a speck about the size of a pinhead).
Other than having a "hogged out" loading port (no problems loading or unloading cartridges here!), this one should make a fine shooter.
John