I've been looking at Stevens Favorites (and similar single shot rifles) for a while. Recently, one of the shooters at a rifle shoot I attended showed up with one originally chambered in .32 RF, which he had reworked to fire .32 Long Colt. His work included reworking the falling block to have a centerfire firing pin.
Got me to thinking.
(a) is that kind of rework safe? He was using handloads he said contained about 1.2 or 1.3 grains of Red Dot.
(b) is something similar possible with, say, .22 Hornet? Or would the pressures from that be too much to be safe?
One can find these pretty easily with bores that are crap, and relining is, in overall terms, not that hard. So the idea would be to take one that had seen better days, reline the barrel to .22, rechamber it in .22 Hornet and modify the block to centerfire. Or, alternatively, replace a crapped-out barrel with one chambered for .22 Hornet and modify the block to centerfire.
Just wondering.
