Ok that's the Army model. The Navy was issued the model 1870 Remington rolling block.
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Ok that's the Army model. The Navy was issued the model 1870 Remington rolling block.
Is it a trapdoor or a rolling block? There were both models known as the model 1870.
The barrel should be 36 5/8" long any shorter and it's an old Bannermann cut down one. The 1866 Allin was a redesign of the 1865 model with a better extraction system. The rifles were essentially...