I don’t know of any articles, but a .30-30 out of a pistol that weighs less than 3 lbs? Yowch!!! I think you’d want to use the stock, but if it was re-chambered to a different cartridge, I think it would lose its special status as a collector’s item and qualify as a short-barrel rifle subject to the NFA.
Also, .30-30 is a rimmed cartridge, where the C96 was designed to feed the rimless 7.63 Mauser.
A short-barreled firearm with modern materials and a magazine feeding in front of the pistol-grip sounds a lot like an AR pistol.
Just checking back on this. Looks like my autocorrect changed alloys into allows.
Yeah, I know that 30-30 is rimmed, and about the weight issue but people have done rim fire conversions on Mauser rifles, and as you said there is that stock. Maybe you could make a recoil dampening spring hidden in a stock that looked...like a stock stock. And sell it on ...oops stop this sketch, its too silly.
Anyhoo, the double barrel Colts use modern grades of steel whether they have one wide slide or two seperate slide and they have one hell of a recoil to I would imagine.
The Idea is not to make something practical, but to make something that looks cool actually functional...even if you have to clamp it to the table to keep from spraining both your thumb and your wrist when you fire it. Technically it works.
One of those “hold my Schnapps” sort of things.