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What is the difference of doing that with a rifled barrel shot gun?
Just cut the sabot slug from the shell & load it in the barrel. Seal the powder charge in a half shell & insert the primer in the back of the shell. It would be the same thing wouldn't it?
Couldn't you call it a muzzle loader then.
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Now that you have brought that up, I'm kicking myself. I had completely forgotten that I've seen this before.
I know a guy back east that did this with a Marlin 336.
I don't know how it was achieve - with a sleeve, an insert, or multi-piece barrel - but the barrel was bored and rifled to .432", while retaining a .30-30 chamber.
The projectile loads from the muzzle.
Behind the projectile, a .30-30 case, primed, loaded with smokeless powder, and sealed with tracing paper is loaded at the breech.
(The ramrod is stored in the original magazine tube.)
He has taken several dozen deer with it.
He wanted a muzzle loader that could be unloaded without firing it or pulling the bullet, and happened to have a ratty 336 parts gun lying around...