Topper Question

[PigBoy Crabshaw]

I have a chance to buy Topper 158 410 full choke for $100.
My question can I get/will a center fire barrel for this?

Thanks -gary

[PigBoy Crabshaw]

Sorry, I foud a way to do a search on the subject. Looks like a bust. Maybe a rimfire at best or 22 jet. -gary

[quickdtoo]

The 158 was available in 30-30, 22 Hornet and a couple other low pressure rifle chamberings, so if you can get a modern barrel in one of the original chamberings, you should be fine. I've had only one M158, modern barrels would have taken a lot of work to get them to fit, the underlug was a LOT longer, maybe too long to be practical, but others have made the mix of parts work, I think those old cast iron H&R Inc frames had a lot of tolerance in their specs, much more than modern SB2 frames.

Tim

[PigBoy Crabshaw]

Thanks Quick. Maybe I"ll pick it up for the boy, and we'll see where it goes from there. At this price I can't loose. It's a nice clean looking with a red rubber butt. C&C -gary

[PigBoy Crabshaw]

Quick, when you said
"The 158 was available in 30-30, 22 Hornet and a couple other low pressure rifle chamberings, so if you can get a modern barrel in one of the original chamberings, you should be fine."
Your meaning is I can pick up a used one, but Remington will not fit one for me correct? -gary

[quickdtoo]

That would be correct, H&R won't fit barrels to any frame made before 1987.

Tim

[petemi]

I put a new manufacture .357 Mag barrel on a 158 frame.  It locked up tighter than a gnats butt and shoots great.  No problems at all.  I got the frame from a friend who had three H&R frames, and it locked up best on the Topper.  I'm going to ream it to Maximum and put it on a SB2 frame, and build a short 12 ga. on the Topper frame.

Pete