Remington rolling block - pic heavy

[hicaliber]

I have owned this for several years but never really knew much about it.
I have done some reading but there is so much conflicting information I am more confused then when I started.
It's a Remington rolling block and on the left side of the barrel it is marked Y127 followed by what looks like a small v. I have read these had no serial numbers then I read it was under the tang so I'm not sure what this number is? The barrel is marked 7mm and on top of the tang " Remington Arms - union metallic ctg co. Rem works Ilion N.Y. USA PAT OCT. 22 1901
Overall the gun looks in good condition with a nice plum colour on the barrel and receiver, yes there is some minor pitting but it looks 100% original and I don't want to clean it up.
The bore is amazing and I would rate it at 90-95% and it has the cleaning rod in the forestock.
Would love to shoot it but not sure if it will handle modern 7mm mauser?
Any information you could provide would be appreciated and of course what do you think it's worth?

Thanks in advance hical

 

[hickstick_10]

If there's no damage to it, those guns handle federal 175 grain factory loads just fine. Your particular rifle is missing the handguard, these are very fragile anyways. In my own roller I dont try to handload for this rifle like a bolt gun, and I have a hard time doing better then federals 175 grain load anyways. Be careful as some other factory loads are loaded quite hot, S&B for one is to warm for this gun.

There's alot of BS floating around about these guns on the net, one guy at one point in time decided that theres no way a roller can handle a smokeless load and started spreading it around the net. There is precisely one picture of a blown up 7mm rolling block and that along with a couple black powder swede rollers being fed large doses of smokeless are the fodder the safety police. Most people who preach about these rifles have never seen or shot one, keep this in mind. There is alot of garbage being spewed about these rifles, 98 percent of it is anecdotal and suspicious. I have not read a single internet source of information on these guns regarding their strength (or lack there of) that wasn't eather suspicious or you could plainly tell people were just making it up as they go along.

Theres getting to be less and less of these old rollers around, yours likely was a south american army rifle (my own is mexican, at least thats what the bayonet says), they were popular years ago for converting to 444 marlin with numrich arms barrels (never heard the safety guys EVER question this conversion) and lately they're being stripped down and fitted with giant heavy barrels for making BPCR rifles and buffalo gun stuff. I wish more people would convert these rifles to a nice little smokeless cartridge and save the buffalo gun stuff for the BP actions, but most don't. The most interesting conversion I've heard of is one carbine that was rebarreled to fire .45 ACP, pretty clever way to use the original rimless extractor.

As far as worths concerned, even really nice examples dont fetch much, rarely over 1000 bucks for a pristine carbine. Yours is missing the handguards, no bayonete and shes pretty dented and rusty, I wouldnt say more then 500 bucks.

Edited to add: Just because they dont fetch alot does not mean they're easy to find, it took me 3-4 years of looking to come across a smokeless roller, the military single shots that will shoot ammo you can get off the shelf are a pretty rare bird (and the ones whos rifling isn't absolutely thrashed), my other one is a 303 martini enfield, and again I can find the same anecdotal and equally false references to them being dangerous to shoot.

If you get the urge to find a handguard or there's some broken parts to that gun, google "rolling block parts" and a company will pop up that will supply most of what you need http://www.rollingblockparts.com/no-5.html.

If you remove the buttstock, the serial number is stamped on the side of the tang, its hidden by the wood.

 

[hicaliber]

Thanks hickstick, ton of info, greatly appreciated.