[345 DeSoto]

Anybody ever fitted a wood forestock to this gun?...

[Tommygunn]

Why?
You don't want to put your left hand out in front of the cylinder in a C&B rifle like that, 'cause when you shoot it gasses and **** escape from the cylinder gap and will burn your forearm.
More significantly if you should experience a chain fire, the balls will remove your fingers as they blast by. Maybe your hand as well.
This was a problem 150 years ago when these guns were originally produced and the repros are liable to the same problem.
Don't do it....it just isn't worth the risk.

[faustopph]

Like Tommygunn has already said.
You might end up with a nickname that will remind you of the nightmares you have of the time you had a chainfire and lost the use of your hand you placed in front of the cylinder.

[Skinny 1950]

I agree with the above assessment of the situation,every time you shoot these things you get a face full of particles because the cylinder is very close to your face. You brace your shooting hand with your other hand in a awkward manner but it is worth it because these things are accurate.
It is a Remington revolving carbine.

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[Carl N. Brown]

Revolver carbine: I would hold that the way I hold a Mauser broomhandle with sholder stock: the off hand either gripping the trigger hand, or wrapped around the wrist of the stock and wrist of the trigger hand, with the upper arm snug against the chest.

[345 DeSoto]

I was planning on using a Howell Conversion cylinder in .45 ACP...

[Jim, West PA]

Taurus actualy makes thier Judge in a carbine with a forestock.
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It has blast shields in front of the cylinder on both sides to protect your arm and hand.
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These of course are designed to prevent contact with the side gasses of a revolver.
Also, Taurus's cylinder gap is very tight on this gun to help minimize side gasses.
Don't see why such shileds could not be made to guide both side gasses and forward gasses upwards ?

Sure would be useless in a chain fire tho and i s'pose, if it could o' been done it would o' been done 150 years ago.

I was planning on using a Howell Conversion cylinder in .45 ACP...
Then i see no reason why the gas shields wouldn't work.

[Foto Joe]

Even with the conversion cylinder the answer would still be no. One of the rules that I live by is to never attempt to prove/dis-prove Darwins Theory using my own body parts.

[crazyjennyblack]

I actually made a carbine out of a "Buffalo" Remington brass revolver - the one with the 12" barrel. It shot rather well when I attached a homemade oak buttstock and foregrip to it.

How did I avoid the chainfire problem? I used an angle connector and made the foregrip look like a T and come down, like those foregrips you see on AR-15's, only in wood. It worked, kept my hand out of the line of fire, and bolted to the loading lever so you could still use that too. You would still want to wear a leather glove to protect from sparks, gasses, and flying grease, but at least a bullet wouldn't hit your hand.

I wish I had taken pics before I sold the gun, but I came across some financial hard times and it had to go.