- #DODGE BROTHERS PATENT REMINGTON ROLLING BLOCK RIFLE SERIAL NUMBERS#
- #DODGE BROTHERS PATENT REMINGTON ROLLING BLOCK RIFLE SERIAL NUMBER#
- #DODGE BROTHERS PATENT REMINGTON ROLLING BLOCK RIFLE LICENSE#
This would be alot better then what we have now.
#DODGE BROTHERS PATENT REMINGTON ROLLING BLOCK RIFLE SERIAL NUMBER#
Sporters if it was in order and if it ramped up during the Buffalo Hunting years.Īny member out there with Rolling Blocks with plaques that are dated? If so what is the serial number range? Maybe over time it might be possible to at least narrow the manufactruing time frame to a window of a few years. It would be nice to know Remington's rate of prodiction on No1. I would assume that this rifle was most certainly made before 1879 Now I have another rifle without a plaque with a serial number in the 1400's. I think it is safe to assume that the rifle was made sometime in 1879 or no earlier then 1878. The serial number is in the low 3,000 range. 1 Sporter with a silver plaque.No way to determine who the people were mentioned on that plaque but it is dated November 1879. Occasionally one gets a little information as to a manufacturing year.
#DODGE BROTHERS PATENT REMINGTON ROLLING BLOCK RIFLE SERIAL NUMBERS#
If you intend to fight that way need for Rate-of-Fire is clear, but I fail to see how it would prompt developing ability to have cartridge ready to fire in chamber.It nevers ceases to frustrate me when you look at or purchase a No.1 Sporter with matching serial numbers and it it isn't even possible to determine the year of manufacture. Line (infantry) was supposed to fire volley on command. As late as the First World War, the French still believed that élan, or spirit, would carry their men forward through any hail of fire until positions could be taken at the point of the bayonet. to secure by Letters Patent, isz' 1, In a firearm, the combination of\ a frame a barrel movable longitudinally on tune, a breech-block or bolt carrier sliding on'said frame and comprisingintegrallya breech-bolt, aforward semi-tubular extension and a depending abutment preventingremoval rearward of the bolt. Infantry of the period still manoeuvred in massed columns or lines, wore gaudy uniforms in bright, morale-boosting colours, and attempted to close with the enemy rather than shoot them down from a safe distance. I bet due to how wars were destined to be fought in 19th century providing ability to safely carry rifle with cartridge in chamber for foot soldier was not deemed super important. (…)Remington rolling-block cartridge rifle was so popular that more than half the world’s armies adopted it or purchased quantities for police or martial purposes.(…) “(…)market apparently was quite satisfied with the half-cock notch.” It was specifically intended to keep the breechblock from opening in case of a cartridge discharging when the breech was closed (such as in case of the firing pin being jammed forward by something). Update: It has been pointed out to me that the specific patent for this system is US Patent 113408A. The US Army did experiment with a similar sort of half-cock safety on the Rolling Block carbines, but not of this design. That said, this system was never put into production. It would stand to reason that they would have properly identified it.
#DODGE BROTHERS PATENT REMINGTON ROLLING BLOCK RIFLE LICENSE#
To fire, one need only cock the hammer back slightly and it is ready to use.ĭespite there being no Dodge marking son this example, I am pretty confident that it is form the Dodge brothers because another example of the same system is in the Smithsonian collection attributed to Dodge – and Dodge sold his own gun collection to that museum in the early 20th century. It is in 1867 that the brothers Emile and Leon NAGANT quay of Ourthe, 41 in Liege obtained brothers REMINGTON the authorization to manufacture under license 5.000 rifles ROLLING BLOCK bound for the pontifical zouaves of Rome. This ensures that the action isn’t accidentally opened while carrying the gun. Using Dodge’s patent system here, the hammer can be lowered on a loaded chamber in a way that securely locks the hammer from falling and locks the breech from opening. This particular one I cannot identify with a specific patent, but to my eye it is a way to give the Rolling Block system a safe way to be carried with a loaded chamber. William Dodge and his brother were inventors in Washington DC who in the 1870s patented a bunch of different improvements to the Remington Rolling Block, among other guns.