cost to amputate portion of 58 remmie bbl

[Free Hand]

Hi guys n gals,
I live in the Orange County, Riverside County area of So Cal. What would be a ballpark figure to cut the barrel of my 58 Remmie down a bit? Call me crazy, but I'm also exlopring the possabilty of converting it to a bird's head grip; any thoughts as to the possibility and cost? it's a brass frame so it's BP only. Thanks,

Tom B Stone 

[Qball]

Cutting the barrel is realy not that difficult,
Take a look at this link.
http://www.chipengelmann.com/Grips/Remmies.html

[Free Hand]

Qball,
Thanks muchly for the quick reply. It will be most helpful.

Tom B Stone

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Howdy, Tom!

It didn't cost  much for me to cut down my own NMA barrel.  It cost me the price of replacement sight and loading lever latch.  Less than $15 from VTI GunParts, shipped.

After that it was all time-expense.

Read all the stuff you can, then do it.  Except for cutting the dovetail with a file, the barrel cutting was pretty simple.  Perfectly centering the front sight was a bit touchy, but not impossible.

Now that it's over, I'm pretty proud of it.  You can read WHY I had to perform the amputation on "My CAS City Profile."

Sorry, I'm not yet experienced enough to post pictures on here, but I CAN post some pics in my Photobucket album - AFTER my son returns the Digital camera of ours.

[Free Hand]

Steel Horse,

Much obliged; it seems from the info Iv'e seen here demonstrates that it's not as dificult as I thought, except for possibly the loading lever.

Tom B

[Yankee John]

Tom- The loading lever is a piece of cake! (Depending on how short your going with the barrel).

Just use the lever off a Remington NAVY- It is 1 1/2" shorter than the Remington NMA lever.  Dixie & VTI both carry it.

See pics below!

John

[Free Hand]

Much obliged. It cannot be denied, you fellas are a wealth of information
FH