What would be very cool, is if Mr HST would make a Gove lever on the left side. Might be interesting.

I suspect the rotary extractor MAY present a more difficult challenge than the sliding inline extractor for a lefty conversion of a RB's. Buschenmacher may be up for this discussion as well.

The roller in question is Lone Star which has been my silhouette rifle. It is unlikely it will ever be used for anything  other than match shooting.

I have on hand a lever casting for a roller that would mount on the right like the side lever, but it extends down and wraps around the trigger guard ending in a tab positioned like the lever on a Ruger number one. The casting is marked Fruend lever for rolling block. With this arrangment you would have an abidextrious rifle. The lever is 5 inches long from the pivot so it would have a heck of a lot of leverage to seat sticky shells and extract them. 

If you realy want to do some converting there's the Gove underlever that replaces the triggerguard alltogether and works lilke a lever action rifle, except you have to cock it before opening the action. 

With all that being said, moving the normal tab on the breech block from the right side to the left side would only require that one be cut off and a new one welded on, some shaping, checkering and refinishing and it's done.

Steve Durren

DonH,

The Freund lever attaches to the breech block pivot pin like your typical side lever but instead of coming back it comes straight down towards to bottom of the reciever. Flat against the receiver. Then it turns under the receiver to the front of the guard. Then it snakes it's way along the surface of the guard hugging it until it's about three quarters of the way back when it angles away from the guard to form a finger tab. The whole thing is fairly trim and sexy.

The Gove underlever is a major modification to the action and would probably be best done before finishing the receiver. The bow on the trigger guard is removed and a slot is cut in the forward part of what we should now call the floorplate. The lever/triggerguard is inserted through this slot and pivots near the floorplate. A link is attached to the lever and connects to the breech block. The drawing I have shows this done to a straight grip action and the lever casting I have would only work with a straight grip. The rear end of the lever does have a curl to it somewhat like a Hawken guard. As I mentioned, you still have to cock the hammer before opening the action. I have read somewhere that when Gove did the conversion, the lever would cock the hammer and then open the breech block. I'm not sure how he would have accomplished that but I'm sure there are a lot of extra parts in there!

Steve Durren