New to me Rolling Block - I know next to nothing about these

[bigchunk1]

I don't know why, but I really like the Remington rolling block. It was a high powered, accurate single shot for its day and as such saw a lot of use as a hunting rifle. I think it was also exported to foreign armies after being narrowly rejected by the US government which favored the Springfield trap door rifle. It was the pinnacle of single shot, the next step being the Mauser action rifles that stormed the 1890s.

It might be interesting to see what sort of groups you could make with it at the range. It was said to have competition level accuracy.

[RCS]

I believe there were two problems with the Remington rolling block action. the first problem was loading the long range Sharps cartridges, you had to grind out part of the hammer in order to chamber the cartridge. The longer range Sharps cartridge were used on both buffalo and the target range. The second problem was the very heavy trigger pull which was difficult to shoot with. The Remington set trigger or custom double set triggers were a lot better to use.

I would think that the Sharps, the Sharps Borchardt and Winchester Hi Wall were all better riflesAttachment 58012Attachment 58013Attachment 58014