Knight Ultra-Lite to smokeless conversion?

[olegburn]

Just read the their Ultra-Lite ML specs and was impressed.
Timney adjustable trigger
Very light stock
Has anybody chopped it and installed smokeless barrel on it?
Could make for a very lite woods gun...

[GMB54-120]

Bestill has cut off the barrel on at least 1 Knight and made a SML. Only for lighter smokeless loads though.

[mrbuck]

That looks like a great woods rifle .
Chris

[olegburn]

It does!

[olegburn]

Light loads due to smaller diameter or the fact that there's no locking lugs?

[GMB54-120]

Barrel OD is slightly under an inch if im not mistaken. 4198 200gr SST sabot loads should not be an issue at all. Those are well under 30kpsi. You could probably go as hot as 58gr of N120 and a 200gr SST. That is still well under 35kpsi and its pretty peppy.

Finished weight btw was said to be around 7.25lbs.