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The Remington is a single-action, six-shot, percussion revolver produced by E. Remington & Sons, Ilion, N.Y., based on the Fordyce Beals patent of September 14, 1858 (Patent 21,478). [ 2 ] [ better source needed ] The Remington Army revolver is large-framed revolver in .44 caliber with an 8-inch barrel length.
A Remington Model 870 shotgun. Below is a list of firearms produced by the Remington Arms Company, [1] founded in 1816 as E. Remington and Sons. Following the breakup of Remington Outdoor Company in 2020, the Remington Firearms brand name operates under RemArms, LLC.
If Model 1858 is "Remington-Beals Model Revolver(s)", then what is Remington-Beals 1st Model (5-round percussion cap revolver first available in c.1856) and its successors the 2nd- and 3rd Model(s) supposed to be? From my knowledge Model 1858 is mostly known as the "Army" and/or "Navy" (with a Remington-Rider Double Action sister model)...
For example, factory and aftermarket receivers using the Remington 700 footprint are produced with various types of action threads, all with a 26.99 mm (1 + 1 ⁄ 16 in) diameter, but with a pitch of either a 1.588 mm (16 TPI, Remington standard), 1.411 mm (18 TPI) or 1.270 mm (20 TPI, Savage standard).
The family of Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers evolved from the earlier commercial revolvers marketed by the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, N.J. The smaller versions of Colt's first revolvers are also called "Baby Patersons" by collectors and were produced first in .28 to .31 caliber, and later in .36 caliber, by means of rebating the frame and adding a "step" to the cylinder ...
Despite these improvements, the only real advantage of the Remington-Beals over well established Colt’s pocket revolvers was in its solid-frame design. So, in 1860 Remington ceased the production. [1] It was not until the outbreak of the American Civil War that Remington started revolver production on a large scale, with Remington Army Model ...
The Remington XP-100 (from eXperimental Pistol number 100) is a bolt-action pistol produced by Remington Arms from 1963 to 1998. The XP-100 was one of the first handguns designed for long-range shooting and introduced the .221 Fireball and 6×45mm .
Others were converted by any number of gunsmiths around the country. The Army model was the first "large bore" (more than .40 caliber) cartridge revolver and remained so until the Remington cartridge conversions of the model 1858 appeared in 1868—soon followed by the cartridge-designed Smith & Wesson Model 3 in 1869.