Remington ‘Round Top’ Rolling Block Restored

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 9/24/2019 | M Nesbitt

[w1n1]

Inspired by a Sporting Rifle carried by Custer, a black powder enthusiast rebuilds his model.
Remington's No. 1 Sporting Rifle was introduced around 1868. That was a rather quiet introduction and this sporter was not identified or named as such until 1874. The No. 1 Sporting Rifles were last shown in a Remington catalog in 1889 with a total production of under an estimated 13,000 rifles. Remington was simply concentrating a lot more on filling military orders from several countries, and making sporting rifles was secondary.
When the Remington sporting rifles first appeared, they were made using military receivers which had "round tops."

The top of the receiver ring was not "octagoned" like the later No. 1 Sporting Rifles, which were appearing around 1873 at about serial number 1400. These figures, taken from Roy Marcot's book, Remington Rolling Block Sporting & Target Rifles, are educated guesses because Remington’s records for these changes simply do not exist.
But with only about 1,400 of the round-top sporting rifles made, you can guess how interested I was when I found one at a very reasonable price. The price was reasonable because this gun had mismatched serial numbers. In other words, this rifle had been reassembled from pieces and parts long after it had left the factory. Also, the barrel had been shortened from the breech end by about 4 inches, and then lined and chambered to a non-black powder caliber.

The old rifle itself was little better than just a parts gun. However, the parts were actually in pretty good shape. And while the numbers on those parts didn’t match, they were all of the right ones. This old rebuilt rifle was certainly an outstanding candidate for restoring. The idea of restoring it put me on a path of research to help me decide what to restore it to, which caliber and such. Read the rest of Remington rolling block.

[buffaloguy]

The Remington Rolling was one of the most produced rifles in history. 70 million made, 2nd to the Ak-47.

[NFHale]

It’s a beauty.

Love old firepower!!!

[Big Red Badger]

An Uberti in 357 Mag.
Is a Fun Shooter!

[NFHale]

Uberti makes some fine, fine firearms... Davide Pedersoli too. Big $$$$ though.

.357 is an excellent caliber...