Gary Reeder
not ridiculous but expensive and maybe not possible
Tuesday, March 02, 2021, 16:59

Changing the barrel is no problem. We do that several times a year on Dan Wessons and did it on my 410 GNR S&W.





On the S&W the muzzle brake is the barrel nut so no problem there. We took the shroud off, made a new barrel and put the shroud back on.

But building a new cylinder is the problem. It takes special tooling for every different brand and we don't have tooling for a Taurus large frame cylinder. Tooling runs somewhere between $4000 and $6000 and takes months (these days probably years) to get the tooling made and to us. And Taurus will not sell cylinder blanks.
So the idea is sound but the building of the cylinder puts a screaming halt on things.