It's amazing what they were able to come up with back in the day! Hell I was just cleaning my Henry 1860 and it dawned on my that cleaning an Army rifle from 1860 was so much faster and easier than cleaning the M4 that same Army designed in the 1960s!
That's a beautiful rifle. I love and have a number of color case harden guns. I even thought of having Donna cch. Yesterday in the snow I got to shoot a Winchester 1895 in 30-30 which belongs to my son's father in-law. His grandfather bought it in 1940 when he and many others were hired to guard against a Japanese attack on the Hoover dam. I had read that before that they did it all over especially the NW and Alaska. My son and his in-law were hitting the same hole repeatedly at one hundred yards. It's been his deer rifle for years. He says every deer he's ever taken has been through the eye. I believe him because when I shot it I even hit the target. Rich
In 1955 I bought a rolling block in 30-40 cal for $35. Used it for hunting for over 30 years. It was light in weight and shot better than I could. I wish I still owned it.
When you can't use a tangent rear sighted rifle any more and your neighbor ,who is a collector, gives you what you consider a more than fair price you take it. It was a converted .43 cal Spanish rolling block with a half octagon barrel that I bought from Banermans in 1955 when I was 15 years old.@@redtra236
I have a Uberti 1885 Browning/Winchester high wall falling block also proofed for black powder pressure....got an original reloading tool (it and all the dies fit in a box about the size toothpaste comes in) and a casting mold to make .459 minnie ball 405 grain and a sizer die to swage them to .458. When asked what caliber it is I say "fordy fi sebendy gawd dam gubermint if'n ah culd write they'd be hearin frum me".......;-)
Ah, the good old Remmerton Rolly Polly. Back in the day we used these in Central America to protect the orange plantations from the wildlife and local children. Fond memories.
Mykola Tkachuk: That is not true, have you never heard of the Farquharson falling block action ? I have them in 475 Nitro Express, and also 577 NE so they were excellent right up to big game nitro calibers, unlike the rolling block, which is relatively weak in comparison, nothing is stronger than a falling block !
I am surprised this rifle is not still in wide spread production. It is such a simple mechanism, I feel it would be a great single shot budget hunting rifle. Of course one that nice is NOT in the budget category, ha.
The .22lr and .32rf versions are relatively common in the US and can be found occasionally for under $400 on GunBroker. The big bore 45-70s, however, command a high price. Sometimes you'll get lucky and find an Egyptian contract for pretty cheap. It is a damn shame that no one makes replicas of these single-shot breech loaders. I'd pay decent money for a repro Martini-Henry or a Remington rolling block.
I have a Springfield trapdoor rifle sporterized to a carbine, but it might be Cadets Model, in 45-70. It's about the same size as your Rolling Block. It was my father's and used modern Ammo made by US ammo manufacturers.
The Remington rolling block rifles were rifles the American Army should have adopted after the Civil War. The trapdoor Springfields had issues. The little extra expense of a rolling block design would have served the United States Army well into the First World War. Second echelon troops could have used a single shot rolliing block rifle as as second line artillery troops, lorry drivers, horse wagon teamsters, guards, and rear area security as long as a shotgun and other lever action rifles were available for faster rates of fire at close range. The French Army ordered a 100,000 Remington Rolling blocks chambered in 8x50mm rimmed Lebel rounds. This freed up Lebel rifles for the frontline infantry. These Rolling blocks were made quickly providing the French rear area troops with an adequate firearm for rear area security tasks. The French Air Service troops who guarded airfields with American Winchester lever action rifles in. 44 caliber and .30-30 caliber. I think French Navy sailors used these Remington rolling blocks too. All the Lebel rifles would have been turned in for the critical needs of the French infantry. The British Royal Navy bought around ten thousand rolling block rifles chambered in 7mm for naval armed guards, rear security, and sailors serving on Q-ships and on mine sweeping boats to shoot floating mines in the sea. These Rolling block rifles were strong enough to take smokeless powder. A trained soldier or sailor can get off a reasonable rate of fire especially when the empty cartridge was ejected with about 8 to 10 rounds per minute. British armed guards on merchant marine vessels used lever action 44 caliber rifles and 7mm Rolling block rifles throughout the First World War. The Remington rolling block design saw extensive service in many developing nations who needed a simple reliable rifle fpr modern smokeless powder for their militia and police forces. The Remington rolling blocks were the sold for a total of about 1.5 MILLION to Latin American countries and European countries from the end of the American Civil War until the First World War. The Mexican Rurales used the Remington rolling block rifles extensively. The Mexican Revolution saw heavy use of the Remington rolling block rifle. Carbine model rolling block rifles were especially popular for their handiness in trains, on horseback, security police forces, and for troops who frequently got in and out of wagons or trucks etc. This rolling block rifle design was just something that worked very well making the rolling block one of the most successful rifle designs up until the end of the First World war. Many of these rolling blocks saw rear area service well into almost the mid-20th century. firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2010/07/actions-rolling-block-action.html www.historynet.com/remington-rolling-block-carbine-hit-mexican-rurales.htm en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Rolling_Block_rifle
Your lucky you have outdoor ranges in Alberta the outdoor gun ranges were closed down because housing was getting to close to them now the only gun ranges that a about 20 to 39 minuets away are all indoor
Would have loved to get a better look at how it's designed. It looked like it was just a small flap that came down over the shell. How did it not blow out into your eye?
Nice shooting. Keep up the good job. If I would like to experiment with different loads with the Lorenz rifle, would it be bad or harmful for the gun to use 70, 80, 90 or even 100 grains of black powder? Pedersoli says not to use more than 100 grains of powder and their guns can propably take it, but I'm asking just to be sure.
Hola buenas tardes, que tipo de retículo tiene la mira telescópica..? Observo que es antigua..en un Remington Patria cal. 43 Spanish, recamarado a 45-70. Saludos cordiales.
What country are you in ? And what are the firearm laws there concerning cap and ball revolvers. I enjoy watching your shows to much . Between you and Duelist. I may have to stop watching both of your videos This would be to the fact I’m buying to many fff burners . Thank you
Oh shoot, you are teaching military history? How is your knowledge about spanish rifles from wwII? Is there any way to contact you? ( Maybe via Patreon? )
If you watch the slow-motion sequence at the end carefully, you will see that the scope slides freely in its mounts. When the rifle is fired, inertia causes it to stay more-or-less where it was as the rifle recoils back. That's why he keeps touching the scope between shots: he's sliding it back into place.
I really wish in red dead redemption 2 they allow the player to use this thing without the damn scope. we have a trapdoor. Why can't we have a rolling block too with no scope.
match powder? I have never used a gun in my life. Is that a type of real powder people use in guns, or is that something else? I have heard of smokeless and black powder but not match powder.
@@mohamedshwesh221 Where is the powder made from? You still have not answered that. I hear, "homemade," but it is not being specific. Do you mean from gathering the crushed up remains from red tip from an actual match? I pray it is not.
In Canada and us several people I know as well as myself use 45-70 and 45-90 black powder loads for thousand yard matches the cartridge is quite accurate as well as the rolling block. Would be interested in seeing you do a short cover of this event. The sport is quite challenging and fun.
