Doubleriflejack,

Thanks for the good advice. I am familiar with Ellis Brown's work on converting doubles, I have both copies of his book and have been corrisponding with him. I have not yet asked him about this project because he is terribly busy right now. I have talked this over with several people and I intend to get more input from Marrakai about barrels sizes and weights and loadings. As I said, this is all new territory for me, and quite a bit larger in size than anything I have done before.

I am still in the planning stages, we have the donor gun and the barrels are ordered but they won't be here till some time in April. I am not sure about the final service load yet but we are talking about the Black Powder Express loading using a 650 grain bullet at 1650 to 1800 FPS. I have my doubts that anything hit on this coninent with a 650 grain bullet going 1650 is going to complain much. 1800 might be somewhat better, but only if I can shoot it well and my shoulder holds up.

I dislocated it two years ago by falling on the ice while deer hunting with one of my doubles. I managed to save the gun from any damage but my shoulder took all the shock of the fall. My doctor told me that I had knocked a piece off my rotor cuff and that after it quit hurting, I should just go on using it and eventually the muscles would tighten it back up. That worked to a degree but the thing still is not totally right yet. I don't baby it any, but I don't want it going back out again either.

I have been quite surprised by the number of my friends who have volunteered to help me regulate this piece when it is finished up. I may actually recruit a couple of them during the early stages of the regulation process. They not only will have to be tough enough but they will need to be very accurate in the shooting in order to get this done properly. Bob