Who converts

[steve61]

After market jungle carbines to 45/70 caliber?
TIA, Steve

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[John Sukey (Deceased)]

Uh, why not just buy a lever action Marlin in that caliber???

[Nate]

John, I fell into the #4 Mk1/45-70 trap some years ago with the Gibbs/Navy Arms rifle conversion. The idea was to use spitser bullets through a box magazine to improve 45-70 ballistics. I had a Marlin at the time and was disappointed to discover that the Marlin was much stronger than the #4 and loading one in the chamber and one in the tube mag solved the pointy bullet thing. But I still have the #4, any takers?

[RJW NZ]

You could take a look at these guys for ideas;

Special Interest Arms

[John Sukey (Deceased)]

Special interest Arms.
I have a No4 in 7.62x39 from them. Works very well using romanian single stack AK magazines. (five or 10 round.)
A friend years ago gave me a chop job, so a original rifle was not modified.

They set back the original barrel and do extensive mods to the bolt, ejector, and redesign the magazine well