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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.
These usually fired brass rimfire cartridges. Smith & Wesson Model No. 2 Army: A larger version of the Smith & Wesson Model 1 chambered in .32 caliber rimfire. Spiller & Burr M1861 revolver: A cheaper version of the Whitney M1857 with a frame made from gunmetal (bronze) instead of iron and the steel in the cylinder was replaced with twisted iron.
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 ...
Remington introduced its first large-calibre centre-fire revolver in 1875, although many Model 1858 percussion revolvers had been converted to .44 Rimfire or .46 Rimfire cartridges, the latter with five-shot cylinders. The new Remington Model 1875 was initially produced in a cartridge of the company's own design, the .44 Remington Centerfire.
Remington supplied the U.S. Navy with its first breech-loading rifle. Remington supplied the U.S. Army with rifles in the Mexican–American War (1846 to 1848). Shortly after, Remington took over a defaulted contract (by John Griffith of Cincinnati) for 5,000 U.S. Model 1841 Percussion Mississippi rifles. Based on the success of filling these ...
Instead, its strength came from the lower frame and the massive fixed cylinder pin. This made the gun slimmer and lighter than its main competitor, the Remington Model 1858, but the fixed cylinder pin meant that the barrel had to be removed to remove the cylinder, unlike the Model 1858, which only required removal of the cylinder retaining pin.
The new 1875 Remington differed mainly from the older 1858 percussion model by having a bored through cylinder chambered for metallic cartridges. Thus, in 1875, Remington entered the cartridge revolver market with this big-frame, army style revolver, intended to compete with the Colt Peacemaker. [3]
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)...