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powderman Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 335 Location: British Columbia Joined: Feb 26^th, 2005	Remington No 1 Rolling Block Sporting Rifle barrel Feb 5^th, 2015 at 8:39pm	Print Post
	I have a E.Remington & Sons No.1 Rolling Block Sporting Rifle that appears to be all original including the barrel sights. The dovetail for the front sight is .454” and the dovetail for the rear sight is .290” Does anybody know if the dovetail sizes on the sporting rifles were standard, or did they vary, and were the front and rear dovetail sizes the same, or did they differ as on my rifle? Is there a standard distance from the muzzle to the front dovetail, as on the Winchester Model 1885? From the No.1 Sporting Rifles I have seen, this distance seems to vary. Regards, Powderman


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Online Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16285 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Remington No 1 Rolling Block Sporting Rifle barrel Reply #1 - Feb 5^th, 2015 at 9:45pm	Print Post
	powderman wrote on Feb 5^th, 2015 at 8:39pm: I have a E.Remington & Sons No.1 Rolling Block Sporting Rifle that appears to be all original including the barrel sights. The dovetail for the front sight is .454” and the dovetail for the rear sight is .290” Does anybody know if the dovetail sizes on the sporting rifles were standard, or did they vary, and were the front and rear dovetail sizes the same, or did they differ as on my rifle? Is there a standard distance from the muzzle to the front dovetail, as on the Winchester Model 1885? From the No.1 Sporting Rifles I have seen, this distance seems to vary. Regards, Powderman I've seen some variety in dovetail sizes. It sometimes seems to be common at one end or the other during certain time periods, but it's not a certain size for all of them. Mine is an early sporter in .44-77 SBN, and in the 74xx range. My rear sight seems to measure very close to the .290" you have. My front sight measures more like .445-.446" Mine is without doubt original, and well worn. I doubt it's ever had anything changed in it's long life, unless it happened when it was very young! It's a rocky mountain blade front sight, and rocky mountain barrel rear sight, with harpoon elevator. 34" extra heavy barrel, with single set rigger, and never drilled for a tang sight. My front sight seems to be about 1.15" from the muzzle on center.

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Online Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16285 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Remington No 1 Rolling Block Sporting Rifle barrel Reply #2 - Feb 5^th, 2015 at 10:01pm	Print Post
	Roy Marcot doesn't mention sight sizes or distances in his book on Rolling Blocks. But he does have a few pictures of the ends of barrels and various sights. From what I see in those pictures, the distances varied somewhat from the muzzle, so I'd guess we might find a few standard distances, but not one standard distance like Win. or Marlin did.

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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11518 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Remington No 1 Rolling Block Sporting Rifle barrel Reply #3 - Feb 6^th, 2015 at 12:25am	Print Post
	Pretty sure mine is like yours as to dovetail sizes, Powederman. What caliber is your rifle? Can we see it? Joe.

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powderman Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 335 Location: British Columbia Joined: Feb 26^th, 2005	Re: Remington No 1 Rolling Block Sporting Rifle barrel Reply #4 - Feb 8^th, 2015 at 5:48pm	Print Post
	Thank you for the replies. I have two No. 1 Sporting rifles. One is a 38-55 with a 28” barrel, horn or hard rubber insert in the end of the forearm, not drilled for tang sight, about 1.65 “ from muzzle to centre of front sight dovetail. Serial # 121XX The other is a 45-70 with a 26” barrel, steel fore end tip, mounted with a factory tang sight, about 1.175” from muzzle to centre of front sight dovetail. Serial# 96XX Regards, Powderman


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powderman Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 335 Location: British Columbia Joined: Feb 26^th, 2005	Re: Remington No 1 Rolling Block Sporting Rifle barrel Reply #5 - Feb 8^th, 2015 at 5:51pm	Print Post
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