Hello to all,
I just drove over, this afternoon, to a friend of mine, who is the owner and operator of Fenris Wolfe Arms. He has been experimenting and building cartridge conversions for black powder revolvers for years and has developed some very nice conversions. His main business is building custom single shot rifles, based on his own actions. In addition he is constantly designing and working with something new that is firearms related.
He has designed two new cartridge conversions for Cimarron Arms. They are patenting them under his name and they have agreed on a royalty for each sold .He has built a proto-type for the .36 caliber Colt Navy. It fires a .38 Colt short cartridge. He has also built a prototype conversion for the 1858 Remington that fires .45 Colt. He left them in the white until I got to examine them and was taking them out in the shop to blue as I was leaving. He is shipping complete revolvers with the conversions intact to Cimarron tomorrow. The Navy Conversion prototype that he sent was on one of the Colt's that Colt reintroduced in the early 70's, and was that a real cutie. If the fit on the revolvers that Cimarron are bringing in from across the pond are anywhere near like the prototypes that he is sending them, they will be one fine revolver. I just hope that the Italians don't decide to change the conversion plate. Let's hope not because it is a fine piece of craftsmanship.
Both of these conversions were super nice and looked like they belonged on the revolvers. I liked both but I fell in love with the 58 Remington. He had an extra stainless 58 Remington laying around and you guessed it, I bought it and an extra cylinder. That's all I need at the time is another project, but I couldn't resist.
Cimarron is going to have these conversions on the market very quickly and they will be a revolver with both cylinders, black powder and cartridge These conversions are all together different than what you normally see, the ones with 6 firing pins. His version has only 1 firing pin. I understand that his version will be much cheaper than what is available from other sources.
Jim has been making conversions for years ,some converted strictly to cartridge and others for both cylinders. One of his most unusual was a Colt Walker for which he not only made the conversion but made cases from shortened .444 Marlin cases.. And speaking of other projects, I have a Walker Colt laying around here waiting on something to do. All of you people with these kind of interest be sure and keep an eye on Cimarron's new products
The recoil plate on this conversion does not attach by a pin, it does not rotate. That is why it only has to have one firing pin. When you remove the cylinder to reload the plate stays in and the cylinder comes out by itself..
Mashburn
David a. Cogburn