Remington Rolling Block Calibres
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Bit foggy on this one. About 40 years ago I had a RRB carbine in 43 Spanish. It was back when I first started collecting Mil-Surps. I do believe it was a Spanish Cavalry Carbine though. Only had it a little while before it was traded on a Madsen. Probably was a black powder caliber too.
That's probably what I was thinking of.
A question to those of you who have been in the rolling block game longer than I have - what are the odds of one of those 7.62x54R or 303 guns showing up in Canada? Seems they made a fair number of them, but that they'd have all stayed in Europe. As trevj provided the link to the google book I read that they produced a commercial .303 rolling block, but it sold so dismally it was discontinued. I'm guessing they're very pricey and very rare these days..
Nope.....Even the smokeless action is limited to 45,000 max. and with age, they aren't getting any stronger. Even the Highwall was not mean't for that pressure, recent production Japanese Brownings notwithstanding. If you want an old time looking action in 22-250 get a Jap. Browning or ruger #1.
For those that might want to shoot a Lee Navy, you can form the shells from .303 British; you have to reduce the rim and reduce the base a bit in the area of the web but they do work. The bullet that I use is a 6mm or .243 slug. I have a winchester straight pull sporting rifle in .236. The only catch is that my rifle at least uses a stripper clip rather than a magazine so I have to shoot it single shot.
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The patent date of the straight pull is 1895 which would put it in the beginning of the smokeless era plus it is hard to imagine such a heavily necked down cartridge and small caliber being ever loaded with black powder.
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I have read that the chamber specs. of the 7mm Rolling Block are not entirely identical to the 7x57 Mauser as used in bolt action rifles. An excess headspace condition has been reported. This can be addressed by careful ammunition preparation.
The Colt/Browning M1895 machine gun was made in 6mm Lee Navy, I believe. Some were used at Peking, during the Boxer Rebellion, along with the rifles.
A consideration with RBs in the more modern smokeless calibres, particularly during that period, when ammuntion quality was not necessarily up to modern standards, is that a RB doesn't have the same sort of primary extraction that a bolt rifle has.
The Colt/Browning M1895 machine gun was made in 6mm Lee Navy, I believe. Some were used at Peking, during the Boxer Rebellion, along with the rifles.
A consideration with RBs in the more modern smokeless calibres, particularly during that period, when ammuntion quality was not necessarily up to modern standards, is that a RB doesn't have the same sort of primary extraction that a bolt rifle has.
