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830singleshot Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 408 Location: Texas Joined: Feb 11^th, 2007	Ballard Rifle Co. Remington Rolling Block Sep 12^th, 2019 at 10:12pm	Print Post
	I had never heard of the now defunct Ballard Rifle Company building a Remington Rolling Block rifle until I came across this 2004 post card from my friend Charlie Hart's estate.

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830singleshot Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 408 Location: Texas Joined: Feb 11^th, 2007	Re: Ballard Rifle Co. Remington Rolling Block Reply #1 - Sep 12^th, 2019 at 10:12pm	Print Post
	Back side

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830singleshot Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 408 Location: Texas Joined: Feb 11^th, 2007	Re: Ballard Rifle Co. Remington Rolling Block Reply #2 - Sep 12^th, 2019 at 10:22pm	Print Post
	Here is a 2nd post card. Undated, but I assume later as it doesn't have a postage see stamp on it, more like a mass mailing .

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830singleshot Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 408 Location: Texas Joined: Feb 11^th, 2007	Re: Ballard Rifle Co. Remington Rolling Block Reply #3 - Sep 12^th, 2019 at 10:23pm	Print Post
	Back side of 2nd post card

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16274 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Ballard Rifle Co. Remington Rolling Block Reply #4 - Sep 13^th, 2019 at 10:05am	Print Post
	They may have produced little or none of the Rolling Blocks since that's the year I seem to recall BRC was sold. If so the new owner in Michigan sure didn't produce any.

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Flatlander Oldtimer Offline Posts: 605 Location: Warm Arizona Joined: Apr 24^th, 2004	Re: Ballard Rifle Co. Remington Rolling Block Reply #5 - Sep 13^th, 2019 at 10:12am	Print Post
	The second card is marked "Ballard Rifle And Cartridge" which would predate the first as it is before the cartridge side was spun off. I wish someone would put together a article on the Cody Ballard timeline. Would be an interesting read. Wishful thinking. Flatlander

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kootne Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 441 Location: Libby, Mt. Joined: Mar 6^th, 2012	Re: Ballard Rifle Co. Remington Rolling Block Reply #6 - Sep 13^th, 2019 at 11:14am	Print Post
	At least a dozen or two were made. Saw one for sale within the last 6 months or so.

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Bill Lawrence Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1037 Joined: Mar 17^th, 2014	Re: Ballard Rifle Co. Remington Rolling Block Reply #7 - Sep 13^th, 2019 at 11:28am	Print Post
	Was 2004 before or after Higgunbotham started Lone Star? Bill Lawrence


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830singleshot Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 408 Location: Texas Joined: Feb 11^th, 2007	Re: Ballard Rifle Co. Remington Rolling Block Reply #8 - Sep 13^th, 2019 at 12:18pm	Print Post
	The 2004 post card has a first class stamp on it and it is cancelled out of Oklahoma City, OK where as the other is a bulk mail with a Cody permit. It is very strange that the later post card was done with a less sophisticated mailing system. It also seems strange to me that it has the Oklahoma City postmark.

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16274 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Ballard Rifle Co. Remington Rolling Block Reply #9 - Sep 13^th, 2019 at 9:02pm	Print Post
	I believe one of the part owners lived in Oklahoma City, and he may have handled mailings? I believe the earliest known Lone Star rifles were dated 1993. Dave died in May 2011.

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pmcfall Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 256 Location: St. Joseph, Missouri Joined: Jan 27^th, 2006	Re: Ballard Rifle Co. Remington Rolling Block Reply #10 - Sep 14^th, 2019 at 10:52am	Print Post
	I think maybe for the very short time the rolling blocks were offered or talked about, Dan Zimmerman and Kelly ? somebody were involved in Oklahoma City. I'm not sure if it really ever got off the ground. Phil


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majorfs45 Full Member Offline Posts: 141 Location: Stillwater, OK Joined: Aug 10^th, 2008	Re: Ballard Rifle Co. Remington Rolling Block Reply #11 - Sep 18^th, 2019 at 5:00pm	Print Post
	Here is what Kelly McNitt said (owner of Ballard at the time these were made). "We built 12 rolling blocks. All the parts were like the originals and would inter fit with original Remington Rolling blocks. Neal Rice built all of them himself. If you were a rolling block collector, it would be a jewel in the collection!"


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SSShooter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2921 Location: Southern NJ Joined: Aug 1^st, 2010	Re: Ballard Rifle Co. Remington Rolling Block Reply #12 - Sep 18^th, 2019 at 7:07pm	Print Post
	Flatlander wrote on Sep 13^th, 2019 at 10:12am: I wish someone would put together a article on the Cody Ballard timeline. Would be an interesting read. Wishful thinking. Flatlander A good person for writing that article would be Steve Garbe. He knows the history well, right up to today's Wyoming Armory (believe George Dillman is the current owner and Keith Kilby one of the gunsmiths). Steve Durren was a gunsmith for Ballard Rifle for some time after it moved to MI.

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Schutzenbob Frequent Elocutionist Offline Rheinisch-Westfälisc hen Sprengstoff-Fabriken Posts: 2057 Location: Nightingale, California Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: Ballard Rifle Co. Remington Rolling Block Reply #13 - Sep 19^th, 2019 at 8:31pm	Print Post
	I occasionally shot with Charlie Hart, and he had a VERY NICE Sharps Borchardt, which I think Charlie had built himself and it had Zischang double set triggers. I know I'm getting off the track here but here's a pic of SPG;


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