Pictures?
“Perfect bore” has it been relined?
Has the rifle been reconditioned?


Tom Klinger

I wish l knew how to post pictures the only real negative about the rifle is the rear sight is a current production marbles full buckhorn sight. As near as l can tell looking with a magnifying glass it's not a reline.

The address on the barrel is just a single line. E. Remington and sons Illion NY if I remember right and the caliber is on the underside of the barrel in front of the forend tip it's stamped 45   70
The upper tang doesn't have the usual markings it's blank and not drilled for a tang sight.

Vall old boy, as long as we're waiting on the OP for a follow up picture, price this one for me. 40-70 BN, 28 inch barrel. Unmolested rifle. Not drilled and tapped for a sight and no Remington stamp on the tangs. Good bore, not bad enough to line. Or re-line, or, or...

westerner wrote on Sep 1^st, 2025 at 4:00pm:


That's also a set trigger Roller, which adds significantly to it's value over single non set. In the condition, and chambering, and a decent shooting bore I'd expect to see it around $2k range, maybe a bit more asking price.

Don't shoot my rifle much. Must be thirty years since I shot it. Like mentioned they don't hold well and mine doesn't have target sights on it.  It's one of them rifles that's to good to alter and not good enough to shoot in matches. I should kill something with it. Maybe sell it. No, that would flood the market and drive prices down. Once in a while I drag it out to show a friend my old Buffler rifle. With duplex loads it really rattles the rafters when teched off. Annoying..,, hmmm...

If you can email your pictures to just about anyone on here they can post for you.

Replacing the stock with a pistol grip stock will require either bending the factory lower tang, or buying a new factory pistol grip lower tang, new mainspring, and fitting it to the receiver. Numrich has pistol grip lower tangs brand new from the 1997 run Remington did and I've bought 3 of them to use on builds. That's the easiest way, and retains the stock parts to keep if someone wants to return it to original.

The biggest issue with most factory straight grip Rolling Block rifles is the buttplate. It's too small, and too narrow. It really transfers recoil to the shooter. Some were ordered with a shotgun hard rubber or steel buttplate and those are much larger, and feel better.

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Schuetzendave wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2025 at 3:57pm:


I wont buy ANY CPA stocks. Had too many issues with their stock work. And I don't want a pistol grip stock that's open where my fingers rest.

1Hawkeye wrote on Sep 5^th, 2025 at 11:06pm:



I showed you mine but you didn't show me yours and then you didn't sell yours here. I'm like bummed man...   

Well that sucks. Wish I'd known it was going to be sold elsewhere, I wouldn't have even commented.

So I took it to a dealer that deals in antique guns  that his clients just collect and don't shoot.

I'm going to add one more comment to the "dog pile".  

If you had offered the rifle here and especially if you had noted the oversized chamber as part of the proposed sale,  the buyer would've most likely had both the knowledge and the wherewithal to have the chamber sleeved or would've otherwise corrected the problem and made the rifle safe.

Instead, I can almost guarantee that at some point down the road that rifle will again fall into the hands of someone who wants to shoot it.  Of course there's always the chance that a chamber cast will be made BEFORE that new owner heads for the range and the oversized chamber will be discovered and corrected.  But maybe not.  And maybe that new owner will not be as lucky as you.

Bill Lawrence

1Hawkeye wrote on Aug 31^st, 2025 at 3:56pm:

We were all acting in good faith to help you set a value for your gun based on both your initial description and this follow-up response. Now you are defensive that we don't understand why you left out the most critical issue which would have totally changed our help as to your gun's valuation and not raised our expectation for it's sale here.

Oleblacksmith wrote on Sep 7^th, 2025 at 8:27am:

I  took the rifle to the range after my first post asking about it. There several members here who are upset with me that I didn't sell it to them or on the website. That's why I'm defensive. I'll put it back on the crybabys. Would you sell a piece that has a known problem on a forum? Even if you disclose the information nobody's going to pay top dollar then. Also what would you do if the new owner is injured and comes back on you? The only way I found it was a oversized chamber was by getting a face full of hot gass and doing a casting. How many of you guys do a chamber cast on a caliber marked piece? Or do you have calibrated eyes?

So how do you get an oversized chamber in a 45-70 unless it isn't a 45-70 or say, a 40-70 was fired in it?

Well Vall, to you fairly new means made after 1900. 
It does remind me that I should make a chamber cast of my new 30-30 high wall. It shoots fine but looks to have a long throat.

bpjack wrote on Sep 7^th, 2025 at 3:45pm:


Pretty close Jack. But if I bought even a 75 yr. old rifle I'd still do a chamber cast. My newest rifle is a Remington Model 37 target rifle in .22LR and made in 1937. I didn't chamber cast it because it's a .22LR and never done a chamber cast on a .22LR yet. So they're the exception to my personal rule.

1Hawkeye wrote on Sep 7^th, 2025 at 2:11pm:


I do, simply because I have more rifles that do not conform to what they should be than do. Over/under chambers and bore are very common.