is it legal

[little bill]

Join Date Jun 2006Posts 5         is it legal?      

               I purchased a Savage  mod. 10 1 muzzle loading rifle when it was first introduced years ago.
The mod. 10 ml 1 is designed from the Savage mod. 10 cf rifle short action, it has a 2 lug bolt fitted for the .223 case head. A priming module is loaded with a 209 shotgun primer and is shaped like a .223 case and fits into the bolt face with an extractor in the bolt. The priming module is camed into a restricted breech plug much the same as a rifle cartridge is loaded into a chamber. This design allows the use of smokless powder instead of black powder or bp substitutes.
My question is that I would like to convert this rifle to a 22/250 cf single shot rifle by replacing the bolt head and re-barreling. Would this conversion be legal?      thanks!      Join Date Jun 2006Posts 5         is it legal?      

               I purchased a Savage  mod. 10 1 muzzle loading rifle when it was first introduced years ago.
The mod. 10 ml 1 is designed from the Savage mod. 10 cf rifle short action, it has a 2 lug bolt fitted for the .223 case head. A priming module is loaded with a 209 shotgun primer and is shaped like a .223 case and fits into the bolt face with an extractor in the bolt. The priming module is camed into a restricted breech plug much the same as a rifle cartridge is loaded into a chamber. This design allows the use of smokless powder instead of black powder or bp substitutes.
My question is that I would like to convert this rifle to a 22/250 cf single shot rifle by replacing the bolt head and re-barreling. Would this conversion be legal?      thanks!            

[Rangr44]

I would say so.
 
Private citizens can do pretty much anything they want with their own guns, provided the result doesn't violate Federal law, like making a SBS, SBR, AOW, or machine gun w/o a permit.
 
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[trotterlg]

You will find that Savage had to redesign the 10 ML because it was too easy to convert them to CF cartridges.  If the rifle was never sold as a modern firearm then most of the FED rules don't apply, you may even be able to make a pistol out of that action.  Read the rules carefully, but I think you will find you can do way more with home built guns than most of the old wives tails you here on the web will tell you.  Your state laws may be stricter than the fed rules on these things.  Larry

[oneoldsap]

          As long as you aren't a convicted felon , you should be good to go ! Of course it'll cost you more to convert your ML than to buy an Axis in 22-250  .

[Cornbelt]

There is an important caveat in federal law worth notice: It is against federal law to violate state law.