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I am new to this forum and in fact, am a Southerner living down in Mobile, Alabama but a friend on another forum recommended this would be a good place to get a bit information about a project I want to under-take. I have a .45-70 in a double rifle, a Henry Golden Boy, and a Savage 219B line-launching gun but really lie a bolt-gun in that caliber. I cast a lot of 500 gr slugs a while back for a .45-120 I had but decided that was just too much powder. I bought a decent Lee-enfield SMLE Mk1 commercial model today and am thinking about rebarrelling for .45-70. I understand magazines can be modified for the round and the bolt-face doesn't require change, from what I've read on a couple of gun smithing forums. Has anyone here made this particular conversion? There was one for sale on Gunbroker last week in Utah but I got sniped and let it get away. Thanks in advance.