knoxvette1
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As part of an acquisition of long guns earlier this year I have a rather unique rifle and cannot find out a lot about it. It is a E.Remington & Sons 50-70 Rolling Block No.#1 Sport. Best I can tell I am the 3rd owner of the weapon. It was purchased in the late 30's by the gentleman's estate I acquired it from and he supposedly purchased this gun from the original owner. It has absolutely no identifying markings in reference to caliber or serial number. A local gunsmith confirms it is a 50-70 and in the finest condition he has ever seen one of these guns in. It is unusual in that the barrell is octagonal the first 3 inch's and then round from there to the end of the gun. It also has a very slight number 4 etched into the right breech. I have had several people speculate that this may have been one of the prototypes built by E.Remington and Sons. The Gun Museum in Cody has pretty much ruled that out stating that for me to have an original prototype would be a 1 in a million shot. Any E.Remington & Son's experts out there that might be able to shed some light on this rifle?