My Antique Remington Firearms 

Another great video, I have studied old firearms for the last 60+ years but always learn something new from your videos. Thank you so much Mike.

Seeing these classic Remingtons is a real sight to see. They are very elegant and well made, and they look to be well kept up. Nice to hear the history behind them.

If we could have one wish come true gun related. I would like to see what a 2023 model LeMat pistol would look like if they still existed. Have a good day.

I want a rolling block, preferably 7x57.

I truly love my remingtons.

Thank you, Mike. This was an excellent show of your fabulous Remington's. Appreciate your knowledge & perspectives on these and many great old guns.

This was such a great video Mr Bellevue! I absolutely love the Remingtons ! How that DA Belt model didn’t become more popular is so strange to me ....! Whereas if the 1890 had been made in DA , it would be Legendary today , rather than a foot note ...! Wonderful collection - thanks for sharing it with us !

I think it's great that you shoot them. They're not just wall hangers. Seeing them shoot is part of experiencing their history.

Mike, These revolver videos are always fascinating, What with your collections and your extensive description and knowledge of the guns. Thank you.

That is a very nice collection! Thanks for sharing it with us, and Al’s the history lessons that are craftily woven into your videos are awesome!

My uncle gave me a USN Springfield 1870 rolling block rifle a few years back. He had no idea what it was. After researching it, I told him that it was a .50-70 rifle sold as part of a 10,000 order placed by the US Navy. “Well how did *that* end up in my father’s family?” My grandfather was born in Colorado Springs in the early 1980s. I told Uncle Bill “It would’ve been a perfect Buffalo gun.” It does not have that nice safety feature you describe in the 1871 model. I have to add that the design of the rolling block is simple and extremely robust. The way the breech locks up is just elegant IMHO.

I wish Uberti would produce a Navy size Remington and a belt model. I would buy a pair of each. A police revolver would be cool too I believe any of them would sell well. Thanks for showing us your Remington collection Mike.

I have a Pedersoli Remington 1890 in 44 40, larger grip is great, on of my favorite single actions. Did not think I would ever see an original, very cool!

Mike.. Watching your videos is like sitting, and talking to an old friend.. And i always learn something. Thanks for what you do.

Videos like this where you just display your collection , without shooting, are still great.

thanks for the video mike, i love that 1890,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Mike im jealous u got a Remington-Rider 🤩🤤

First Remington 1890 I have ever seen. Thank you.

Thanks again Mike! Baltimore Billy saying Merry Christmas from sunny Florida!

Mike I have always liked antique firearms much better than modern guns. There is just something about owning a gun that has history. Whether it be family history or if it is a firearm that you acquire it is still much more of a pleasure to own and shoots. I like your channel because I learn a lot. It is not often that I learned something I did not know from watching a clip on RU-vid. But when I watch your channel I always learn something. I also prefer colts and Winchesters.

I have been on the fence about purchasing a BP 1851 either from pietta or uberti. Either way I highly enjoy your videos and the passion you bring forth for the hobby. Keep up the great work!

It would be nice if Pietta could start manufacturing a new model police repro. A repro of the double action belt model would also be a nice one...Too bad that no one can find any surviving schematics that could be used to get an idea of how to make a repro.

Love those Rolling Blocks! 👍👍

What an awesome collection. Thanks for sharing Mike!

I shoot the Replicas of the Police called a Sheriff by the manufacturer in 44Cal. Cap/Ball, I’ve gifted two of them to family. My Buffalo Bills are the same Gun with a longer barrel. My all time favorite Cap/Ball is my Colt copy SA even though it jam’s more then the Remingtons. The looks of the old colts just can’t be beat.

My Uberti 1890 in 45 Colt with a polygon barrel is my absolutely favorite and will not trade it for a ton of gold!

Remington bit the bullet n paid the patent, to S&W. Great video. Great line. Pistol in .38 Long Colt. Cool

I know how hard it must be to research a video like this one but please stay at it. You're doing this better than anyone else at this time.

Hey, Mike….great video. I have a Remington Navy conversion (repro) done by the old R&D Gunshop about 1995. The whole thing is nickeled, too! Beautiful revolver and is made exactly your original. I had them leave the barrel .375…being the purist, that I am….so now I can fire 38 Long Outside Lubed hell based bullet cartridges. I obtained the crimp die from Old West Bullet mounds as well as bullets. Last year, I got hold of an Ideal loading tool for that cartridge and I also have a 38 LC Ideal tool, and a .357 hollow based bullet mould. Fun, Fun, Fun!

Mike Your videos are the best info. Thanks.

Awesome, an original Remington rolling block 43 Spanish. Awesome Remington collection you have. I love your original Remington cartridge conversion, it's a beauty. Your 43 Spanish Remington is a beautiful piece of history,. thank you for sharing.

Fine collection sir. 👍❤🙏

Thank You Sir! Your collection is Very well representing of this History and maker! that's Years of work and some Luck!

Thank you for sharing your collection and your knowledge.

That's a nice Remington collection you got there Mike. A wonderful friend gifted me a Uberti Remington 1875 Outlaw in 45 Colt last week. I find the recoil manageable and even with its thin front sight, I can still hit metal discs at 25 yards. However, I find it easier to cock the hammer of my Colt clone Uberti Cattleman when firing one handed only and the grips seems more comfortable but who am I to complain. Thanks for your very interesting and historical video.

As a Remington fan, I think you did a great video and history lesson.

Thanks you Mike. Another interesting video.

Outstanding collection, nice to see the Springfield 1871 again...Thank you

Great collection. I really love Remmies. Super classy.

We need a reproduction of the belt model, it would be so cool!

Very nice collection. Thanks for sharing. I’ve long admired the beauty of the Rolling Block.

Hi Mike .Thanks for showing us your super fine Remingtons👌🏻🇩🇰🎄🇺🇸

Over the last five decades I've had several opportunities to purchase Rolling Blocks in .43 Spanish. All of those rifles were in very good to excellent condition. However, I knew next to nothing, if not less, about the Rolling Block so I passed on all of them despite being well within my economic range. If time travel was a thing, I'd go back and kick myself.

Thanks Mike! Great collection

Thanks Mike. I finally got time to watch another great video. I always wanted to ask someone who had fired both a 1st generation SAA and a 1890 Remington how they compared and you answered the question.

All those .36 caliber revolvers are so nice, which one of the modern companies would start making those frame sizes

Fascinating video. Thanks for posting.

Awesome collection you have there

Excellent! Thanks for sharing!

I need to get my model 4 rolling block together. I have all the parts, just need to complete the refinishing. Great video as always!

COLT or Remington. We all love Colt, but we appreciate Remington as beautiful art. Like Chevelle or Barracuda. Both sweet iconic performers, just a little different flavor. Anyway I've been ruminating on Root pocket models lately, beautiful art. Gives me chills, the good kind

Thank you Mike, another great video. Keep 'em coming.

Excellent episode Mike!

Very nice collection Mike. Interesting insights. Thanks for sharing.

I have a Pietta 44cal. Remington with the extended frame, so it could fit my large hand. I thing it makes a great self defence pistol for dependable six shots. But I would not use it in a battle, because of it quickly getting fouled up. If I were to take a cap and ball revolver into a battle, it would be my 3rd model Colt dragoon. It fits my hand as it was custom made.

Seasons Greetings Mr. Mike. Your Remington collection is the envy of us all, I am sure. And I especially appreciate the information. There are times when I go to gun auctions and to tell you the truth, the gap of knowledge is plain to see. Usually the seller doesn't know, and the buyer is left with just the knowledge he may have. Your shows give out, in my opinion, valuable information. And I take note. Best Regards, Mr. Mike.

Great video Mike, wish I could find a Springfield 50-70 like yours. Jealous I am.

Another thing I have always wondered about is that you never heard or talked about is how they washed and how they took care of their weapons on the plains and out west, maybe you could share your knowledge about that aspect on gun care in the "old" times 🇳🇴🇺🇸😁

Thanks for showing us your Remington collection Mike, you've got some awesome guns there!

Thank you for sharing.

Very enjoyable! Thanks again

Fantastic video Mike! I love the spaghetti western music when you were shooting some of the pistols! Very nice collection!

Mike does a good job and he has stuff I did not know about. Nothing wrong with a like of one mfg over the other, I like the Remington's but you get good information regardless.

Good evening from Syracuse NY brother thank you for sharing this video and information

Love the old Remingtons. Over the years I have owned a dozen rolling blocks in 43 Spanish. Sold and traded it acquire a couple buffalo rifles I. 45/70. Also have a RB in 7mm. Only handgun I have is a smoot in 38 center fire. Oldest revolver I have is a number2 S&W. Built in 1863 and carried in civil war. Fro colts start with a 1860 c&b, then a 1860 cartridge conversion in 44 colt, then a 1878 in 45 colt, then a new service in 45 colt after that we get into modern firearms. I have fired all of the above firearms. I have even carried a few as varry guns and never felt undergunned.

Very nice collection 👍

Very interesting and enjoyable video, I always learn something new from your videos and love all the old guns

Nice collection, Mike!

I'm colt guy to but Im looking forward to my new model army coming in.

I am from upstate NY. Been to the Remington plant in Llion. They have a great museum there. I never knew about a plant in Utica that you mentioned what happened to that plant? Hopefully it will be covered in your next video. If not can you do more on that plant. Thank you.

Great video. Loved every minute of it👍😀 The Remington Model 1890 New Model Army looks amazing. Thank you for sharing.

That was a fantastic and informative video. Well done, as always.

Hi Mike, great video, I love the double action New Army, and I think you're right, it was far better then the double action Colt design.

thank you.

A reproduction Remington pocket in .36 cal would be cool. How about it, Uberti!

I still think Remington was the better of the gunsmiths. They were thee barrels of the 1800's. Everyone else took awhile to catch up. They had the forging experience, the methods, etc. Colt was a business man, he peddled a ton of other dead end products. He was slinging all kinds of ideas for a buck. The Walker Colt is an impressive but really limited design. It is a hodge podge, with lots of clunk, say nothing of gun harmonics which pulls the assemblies apart upon firing. The full frame 44 Remington Army style frame lasted 20 years into the cartridge era. Good on horse, on foot, any situation. Its handy and versatile. Too bad the DA Belt 36 stopped working. I would love to see that thing in action.

I swear North American Arms modeled there mini 22 LR and 22 Mag 5 shot revolvers off the Remington New Model No 4. I have a NAA black widow has a 2.5 "barrel, 22 mag, have to remove the cylinder to push out the spent cases just like the Remington put the mini mag grips on my black widow ( it comes with larger grips ) and it's just like the Remington #4

Have you ever thought about contacting Uberti and suggesting they make a reproduction of that revolver? The double action 36 cal.

Mike, i wonder if a company like C.H. Weisz (who do reproduction parts for original Remington NMA revolvers) would be willing to make up parts for it. They make a very nice bolt for the original NMA. On another note that is a very nice collection. I would be ecstatic acquiring even half that many in my lifetime. Especially love that Remington rider DA. Thanks for sharing!

Nice,Your fault now I have my own 43 Spanish:)Love the Rolling blocks.

Thanks for the interesting video Mike. I hope you and your family had a nice Thanksgiving Holiday. You know when you have spoken of facing down Evil Roy on the Range I always thought that he was mythical or a pigment of your imagination. This week I found out Evil Roy really is a real person. As a baby Evil Roy was the sole survivor on a wagon train of settlers going west. A group of friendly Native Americans found baby Evil Roy alone on the plains. In many cases they would adopt a baby foundling like this into the tribe and raise him as one of their own. They took a close look at Roy and decided he was the most evil Baby they had ever seen and left him where they found him. The ancient city of Rome was founded by two brothers, Romulus and Remus. They were abandoned as babies and only survived because they were suckled by a she wolf. A she wolf did come across Evil Baby Roy. She gave him one sniff and decided he smelled so evil she took off running into the night. Mike there is a Documentary film based on the life of " Evil Roy Slade ". You can find it here on RU-vid. ( I know figment is spelled with an F )

love the look of the rems...I thought I was the only one who really liked them...thx

🚒🚒🚒I hear the American Indians used to reload rim fire cartridges with the old strike anywhere matches they made a paste using water and pushed it into the rim of the cartridge let it dry and finished the reload as usual you ought to try it.🚒🚒🚒

Great video, by the way!

Great collection! On the Rolling Blocks, there are thousands of them around but securing .43 Spanish ammo is difficult and very expensive, seems odd. Tho only old genuine Remington firearm I have is an 1858 Zouave, very similar to the Springfield 1861 but with a shorter barrel, pretty nice.

5:21 I betcha Mark Novak could fix it!

Can't afford any originals m'self, but I sure do love my Lli Pietta-made Remington with the .45LC conversion cylinder (from Brownells, dunno if they still have it.) Hey, great shirt, Mike!

The Remington rolling block rifle was used by both sides in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and 1871

Thanks so much for this video Mike! Great to learn more about early Remington firearms. One esoteric question: which rolling block kicks more, the 50-70 or 43 Spanish?

I'm hoping the weather has not got you down. Mike.

You are just incredibly talented, there are 3 channel for me and that is nr 1 Duelist1954 and nr 2 Anvil then nr 3 Ian

Great video! That 1890 pistole with a different grip it seems to be made for large hands compared to the Colt?

hi, mr Mike ...!!! best video ... bye bye 😉👍

nice group of firearms you have ,would you ever think about doing a how to on loading the black powder 50-70 gov round , .i am looking for a light target load to try my Springfield navy rolling block .I have 20 star line 50-70 cases, and would like some guidance before I load them.thanks

I would think Mark Novak could get it spinning again.

Great vid! I was a little disappointed that you didn't have an 1858 New Model Army. Yeah, I know, hard to find a nice one, and Italian replicas are cheap and you don't care for replicas. But I think the 1858 was the high point of cap and ball revolver development and far and away was superior to contemporary Colt revolvers. No wedge to hammer out, wear out, get lost. Fast tactical cylinder change. Top strap, full frame. I wish I could afford a cherry 1858 genuine Remington, but if I had one, I probably wouldn't want to shoot it. I do shoot my Piettas quite a bit and I really like them. It is a shame that Remington never made their own "Walker". The full frame would have made for a very strong gun that could easily have handled bigger loads than most shooters would care to fire. 80 grains black powder? 90gr? After the Colt Walker we didn't see equivalent power in a revolver until what, the .357? Or .44 Special? And I would argue that well, never mind what I would argue. The Walker was awesome and I had a replica of that one, too, and it was a lot of fun but I seldom loaded with the full 60gr of powder and never loaded the big conical bullets, either. I simply did not trust the half frame, nor the wedge based breakdown system, with powerful loads. If the Walker had a full frame and quick removable cylinder pin, it would have been the bee's knees and Colt would have sold a buttload of them, right up until cartridge revolvers came out. A conversion scheme could have kept the general design and load going right up until the Smokeless Era. I have fired a double action belt gun like you show, and yeah it is a sweet shooter. I can see how a new one would have been a real tack driving target gun as well as a practical belt carry gun. Back in the day, DA mode would have been a significant tactical advantage, too. The Police Model, I have never seen. I WANT ONE, NOW!!! (with the cap and ball cylinder, of course!) Thanks for showing that one. And the 50-70. Nice boom! Thanks for posting this. It was a very enjoyable watch.

I have 4 Remington's but mostly I have Colt's.

36:04 great.....

I’m not sure if you’ve tried Anvil Gunsmithing for your Remington double action (he actually has a RU-vid channel as well), but I have seen him make entirely new parts by hand sometimes when the old parts were too worn to repair. So he may be able to resurrect it. But then again, as you said in the video, it may be cost prohibitive.

I know I’m late to the party, but what a darned shame about that Remington DA Belt gun, both that it didn’t catch on in popularity in its time (which it rightly should’ve), and that yours is now nonfunctional 😔. Glad you got some great use out of it. Here’s hoping that someday, somehow, they start making reproductions for it, I’d love to get me a pair of them.