My local smith and I were waiting out a thunderstorm yesterday. Nice because we needed the rain and nicer because no one was going to come to his shop with rain coming down in buckets. During the BS phase of discussions we talked about a potential Ruger 3 conversion and if the deed was done, barrel shaping.
While the discussions started out with an octagonal barrel with a tulip at the receiver, I'd also heard about the Octagonal, to round with a wedding ring transition point. He said he'd done a few of those in bigger contours then what I was talking about (.600 finished at the muzzle) and while they were more work (work meaning shop time meaning more dollars) it could certainly be done.
Wondering thoughts on the above. Frankly had only really thought about a regular octagonal but now I'm starting to at least explore other ideas, because planning is half the fun.
