Gary Reeder
the frames are pretty much the same size but to
Thursday, December 26, 2019, 11:46

put a 50 Alaskan in a 336 frame is just asking for trouble. Everything about the gun has to change, The internal ribs have to be removed, the loading gate has to be changed, the ejection port has to change, the front of the frame has to undergo a lot of change to let the wider rimmed cartridge to drop down into the frame, the mag tube has to change for the larger cartridge, the lifter has to be changed for the larger cartridge, the bolt face has to be opened up and several other smaller items have to be changed too. And if even one of these is not quite right it won't be reliable. We picked up a 336 frame in an estate that had been momkeyed with trying to make it work with the 348 round. We had to do all the above plus more to bring the gun back to life. We spent about 3 times the man hours doing all this than we would have with an 1895 frame.