The Remington Rolling Block Rifle is the finest single-shot rifle ever conceived.

First developed in 1864, the rolling block action is solid, dependable and easy to use: This made it a perfect military arm to place into the hands of semi-trained recruits, which truth was acted upon by such nations as Egypt, Mexico, Denmark and Spain, all of whom adopted the Rolling Block as their standard military rifle in the last decades of the 19th century.

The Rolling Block was developed with the American military in mind, but the US Army was committed to converting its many thousands of existing Springfield rifles into the inferior single-shot Trapdoor Springfield.

George Armstrong Custer during his 1873 Yellowstone Expedition, along with his Remington .50-70 Sporting Rolling Block and a very dead elk.
While the vast majority of rolling block rifles were utilized overseas, Remington's rifles had plenty of fans in the United States. The US Navy purchased a number of Remington Rolling Block pistols and rifles for use in the 1870's, and none other than George Armstrong Custer wrote an effusive letter in praise of the rolling block to Remington Arms, following an expedition to the Yellowstone region, in what was then Wyoming Territory. It is believed that Custer had his Remington Rolling Block rifle at the Battle of Little Bighorn, which means it's now in a teepee somewhere.

Remington licensed its rolling block action to several other companies and nations for local production: Rolling Blocks were produced by Springfield Armory in the US, Nagant in Belgium, and many nationial armories in Europe, Scandanavia, the Middle East and Central- and South America.

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