A friend of mine wanted to make a target pistol out of a replica of the Remington 1858 cap & ball revolver. He found that the little cadet 310 Martini had the right size bore and twist and were plentiful in gun shops because so many had been converted to 357s and a #001 buckshot worked perfectly. He drilled out the barrel on the pistol and turned down the Martini barrel to match put Lock-Tite on it and pressed it in the revolver barrel, let it set over nite and he found he couldn't turn it with a pipe wrench. He had left a short piece of the insert for the test. Ho could get two pistol barrels out of one 310 barrel. He made up several and none ever shot loose. He was a great pistol shot and difficult to beat . I never did.
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