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Darker Loaf · December 15, 2012, 02:30 PM

OK, this is at the point of silly day-dreaming now, and at the risk of looking a fool, I'll put my day-dreaming on the forums for you to shred. As per Venom1956's request, here's the deal:

OK, I have this idea for a bear/back-packing/hunting revolver: a .454 Super Redhawk cut for .45 ACP/moon-clips and ported ('cuz I'm a portin' fool). I don't own this gun yet, but have been thinking about it, and lusting for a long time.

However, I think it would be super-awesome to have a companion gun that'd use the same ammunition. I could suffer not having it in a cheap caliber (it'd be the one gun I own that's not), since it's a lever gun, and I have plenty of other guns to shoot. It would just be BA to have a .454 Casull lever gun.

However, after searching around lever gun producers, sadly Marlin and Henry don't produce levers in .454. Only Rossi does. So my questions are:

1.) Does Rossi blow, should I stay away at all costs? My guts tell me, "Yes."
2.) Does anybody other than Rossi do a .454 lever gun?
3.) If nobody does a .454 lever gun, who would do the custom work for such a gun? Is it possible?

December 15, 2012, 02:30 PM	#1
Darker Loaf Senior Member Join Date: October 25, 2012 Posts: 715	.454 Companion Lever Companion Gun OK, this is at the point of silly day-dreaming now, and at the risk of looking a fool, I'll put my day-dreaming on the forums for you to shred. As per Venom1956's request, here's the deal: OK, I have this idea for a bear/back-packing/hunting revolver: a .454 Super Redhawk cut for .45 ACP/moon-clips and ported ('cuz I'm a portin' fool). I don't own this gun yet, but have been thinking about it, and lusting for a long time. However, I think it would be super-awesome to have a companion gun that'd use the same ammunition. I could suffer not having it in a cheap caliber (it'd be the one gun I own that's not), since it's a lever gun, and I have plenty of other guns to shoot. It would just be BA to have a .454 Casull lever gun. However, after searching around lever gun producers, sadly Marlin and Henry don't produce levers in .454. Only Rossi does. So my questions are: 1.) Does Rossi blow, should I stay away at all costs? My guts tell me, "Yes." 2.) Does anybody other than Rossi do a .454 lever gun? 3.) If nobody does a .454 lever gun, who would do the custom work for such a gun? Is it possible?