![]() In the last year of the Civil War, the U.S. Rider brought the new action along, and with his 18 patents, put it in its nearly perfect final form. Remington & Sons, America’s oldest firearms manufacturer, took over Geiger’s patent and assigned one of its chief engineers, Joseph Rider, to make the necessary refinements. ![]() Geiger designed the basic action, in which the shooter “rolled” the breechblock backward with the thumb and inserted a cartridge in the breech, before the block “rolled” forward and the interlocking hammer cocked in one fluid motion. During the American Civil War, gunsmith Leonard M. Manufactured from 1866 to 1917, the Remington rolling-block cartridge rifle was so popular that more than half the world’s armies adopted it or purchased quantities for police or martial purposes. Remington & Sons of Ilion, New York, about the virtues of-and his satisfaction with- his special-order Remington single-shot rolling-block sporting rifle in. Custer in an October 5, 1873, letter to E. The length of the later 11mm cartridge was very close to the 45-70 though.“With your rifle I killed far more game than any other single party …while the shots made from your rifle were at longer range and more difficult shots than were those made by any other rifle in the command….I am more than ever impressed with the many superior qualities possessed by the system of arms manufactured by your firm, and I believe I am safe in asserting that to a great extent, this opinion is largely shared.” Those were some of the comments made by Lieutenant Colonel George A. Those imported in the 1951-58 period which we commonly see, are the m67/96 which were advertised quite wrongly as "45-70" compatible which DOES work, but causes some heavy swelling in the web of the case with smokeless and blackpowder because of the 45-70's slightly undersize dimensions. ![]() If memory serves me right, a crown OR a 97 in the aforementioned area, supposedly distinguish these rifles. The older Remington made rifles were not intended to be used with this later cartridge because of age and quality of steels, and were relegated to the Jutland region coastal reserve artillery units or civilian shooting clubs to be used with blackpowder only. Danish made copies were said to be rechambered for an updated smokeless cartridge in this period which was reserved for those rifles made in Denmark by the kjobenhavn Toihuus or Copenhagen Arsenal due to their finer quality steels. if t does have this, it may well have been rebarreled and was renamed the Model 1867/97 and intended strictly for blackpowder cartridges only in the 1890s. Check between your receiver ring and the rear sight for s crown. It does appear to be one of the original 42,000 rifles of the original Danish contract. ![]()
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