For today's post, I'd like to show you a video that I took ant the local shooting range several days ago. I recently bought this antique Remington Rolling Block from the local gunshop, and I wanted to try firing it. We had found some very old ammo to try in this gun. We had to use antique ammo, because the ammo is obsolete, and there's only 1 company that currently makes ammo for this, and they make it in batches so it's not always available. That, and it's 80 dollars for a box of 20 shots, plus shipping.
This single shot rifle is chambered for the 11.15 X 58R cartridge, commonly known as the 43 Spanish cartridge. According to wikipedia, the 43 Spanish cartridge was adopted by the
Spanish government as their military cartridge in about 1867, and used in the Remington Rolling Block single shot rifle that was manufactured for the Spanish government. The 43 Spanish cartridge and the rolling block rifle were also adopted by several South American countries. The rifle that I have is a Modelo Argentino 1879, made by Remington for the Argentine government. This rifle is in rather good condition with a nice bore. A lot of these old rifles have pitted bores do to corrosive black powder ammo and lack of attention to proper cleaning.
Thanks for stopping by to check out my video! I hope you find it interesting.
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Awesome old rifle, great video. you might want to check the firing pin protrusion to make sure it's not too worn down, that often causes inconsistent primer hits on these antique guns.
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I looked at the firing pin before I brought it to the range as part of my inspection of the action, and it seemed to be in pretty good condition. Also, all the cartridges had a good dent in the primer including the ones that didn't go off. I'm pretty sure it was just bad primers in that 100 year old aammo. These cartridges are berdan primed, so it's interesting getting the primer out of the case to check it out.
I think the ammo was just repackaged military ammo that had been surplused out to the civilian market after the rolling block rifles became obsolete in military service. The stuff could have been made in the 1880s or 90s and never shipped to the various governments that used the rifles.
Here is a picture of what the cartridge looks like.
Yes, the 2 cartridges on the left are the 43 Spanish, the 3 on the right are actually the Spanish Reformado cartridge, which replaced the 43 Spanish in Spanish military service. Those cartridges can't be used in the 43 Spanish camber, they have a 45 caliber bullet and won't chamber in the older type chamber.
Yes certainly very interesting, and lots of detail!
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