Thanks, Men

**Jim Tarleton** · 05-25-2009 10:43 PM

Kirk,

Nice RRB for sure. What vernier sight is that? Windage adjustment?

Who built that 03? That checkering looks very nice.

Jim

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**jamie5070** · 05-26-2009 07:55 PM

Kirk, Take a look at your trigger spring and see how thick and stiff it is. You can test it a little by loosening the rtaining screw and file it thinner to reduce its strength. Make sure to leave the area around the screw hole thick so it does not crack in that area.

**Kirk** · 05-26-2009 08:12 PM

The vernier sight was made, if I recall, by a fellow named Bill Ballard who had a shop in Montana about 30 years ago. I may be wrong on the name. It is serviceable & works well. It is case hardened (or at least case color.) In comparing its operation to newer sights as describes by Mike Venturino, it come up lacking; the vernier scale apparently does not translate into MOA adjustments. It has no windage adjustment.

I can't say who made the 1903 stock. Michael Petrov looked at some pictures and ventured it may be from the 20's. The S/N is from 1922.

**Kirk** · 05-26-2009 08:42 PM

Jamie:

I decided a long time ago to leave the mainspring as it is & live with the trigger. I'm sure today that a repacement would be fairly easy to come by; when I made the PG, such parts were rare. I may look for a spare at Numrich & thin it but I'll leave the original as is. In the four years I was in college, I put 5,000+ rounds through it & perhaps only another 1,500-2,000 rounds since then. I'm amazed the spring is still OK; first class workmanship! That & all the pins & mating surfaces are still solid with no discernable wear. Not bad for an action that dates from 1870!

**ireload2** · 07-01-2009 09:08 PM

Sobering

Remington Rolling Block adventures to keep in mind.

Actually it gets worse than this photo.

**jjroth** · 07-03-2009 11:28 PM

OOPS!

What's the story? Overload or too tired of an action

Have a #4 RRb, in 22LR, needs major work as the tang was D&T for tang sight, but the thinness of it cracked across it. Need to determine the metal composition to re-weld and the re-HT the action to restore it to use.

Barrel needs relining, so question here is: will a old Remington 500 series barrel have the same rifleing as the original?

Thanks.

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