CVA Frontier conversion question

[laffingman67]

Not from percussion to flint. From .50 rifled to .58 smooth.

My youngest son has a frontier rifle. (he's 11) We like to do some tree rat hunting and wants to use his front stuffer instead of his 410. Cool! I was going to buy another barrel and punch it out to .580 for him to use as a smoothie for hunting. Will I have a problem with the pattened breech? Can I just re thread the breech and put a new breech plug in or will the old one work? Suggestions please?

 

[J.D.]

This same question was answered in the "smoothbore question" thread,(Topic#210692)

Generally speaking, this type of conversion is more trouble than its worth.

How much a barrel can be bored out depends on the diameter across the flats, depth of dovetails for underlugs and sights, and the amount of material remaining for threads for a breech plug.

YOu might find some one to make a custom barrel to fit, but it ain't gonna be cheap.

It will probably cost about as much as the gun is worth to have that work done.

 

[laffingman67]

I apologize about the double post. When I posted on saturday when I hit the submit button I got a system maintenance screen from the ML forum. I didn't think it went through. Evidently it did. :redface: oops!
Thank you for your response. I will check out the other thread. :thumbsup: