It dosen't sound stupid to me if that's what you want to do. Shouldn't be that hard for someone who know's how. It seem's to me like you'd just untorque and unscrew the barrel from the ROA and fit another barrel in it's place and then add a shoulder stock. Just might be a little expensive, especially the barrel part, but it sure as hell dosen't sound stupid...Okay...P.S. Almost forgot. I spoke with 4 different people today. All 4 of them own or have owned the carbine. One of them has only shot his about 3 times in a whole year so he dosen't even figure into the equation I don't guess. One of them is a close friend of my brother here in Alabama and he has killed several deer with his over the last several years. It's about the only firearm he hunts with. He's just a quiet old man. He's not interested in collecting different guns and all that stuff. He's a damn good shot with that carbine. I know he's a good shot because I watched the apparent ease he displayed as he picked off some beer cans I had set up a little ways out there. Six of them. He squirrel and rabbit hunt's with it to. He can take the rabbits on the run by timing their jumps he said. (pretty damn old to be shooting that good) I glanced at his right thumb today when I handed him a beer. I didn't make any comment but he's got a big callous on it. He's damn sure spent a lot of time pulling back the hammer on something.
Anyway, that's off the subject. He says he mostly loads with around 33 grains for what he would call a heavy load but that yes, one could probably shoot a heavier load than that, and that it wouldn't put any undue stress on the firearm. To just get in the habit of checking all the screws when it was cleaned because sometimes a screw might start backing out.
The other two, although they are not so experienced as my brother's friend, said about the same thing.
All of them are older than me and I am not that young. One of them lives in Tenn. (I'm in North Alabama so it's not too far) I drove up to see him. Just got back. (I didn't have anything else to do anyway) He's in his 90's and hard of hearing (kin to my brother's friend) but he said he remembers very clearly of seeing one or maybe two of these Remingtons with the longer barrels. (he guessed it was maybe"seventy something or could be 80 some'erds years past")
Well, anyway Purvis, I thought you may want to know this so as to give you a guideline to operate under until you get your ROA rigged up. The way they talked it dosen't seem like you are going to damage your carbine by firing hot loads in it. Oh, evidently the "1 or 2" he had seen back then was privately owned just like you own yours today.
Purvis, I wanted so badly to ask him if he had any idea if one of the guns was still around somewhere and if he knew about any of the people there who might have it but I didn't. Even if he had known it wouldn't have done me any good. It would be in the family of the person who'd owned it and they wouldn't have parted with it for anything in the world because it had belonged to their
'dead Grandpa' or something like that.
Well, anyway, didn't mean to bend your ear this long Mr. Purvis. Just wanted to tell you about it. Well, anyway...Okay...
