Finally got a Remington

[Pulp]

A feller came over today to help me move some stuff. He brought a .410 Lee Loader, 25lbs of shot, a bag of wads and stuff, and this:



It's a .36 caliber. Uberti, SN XX7.

It all belonged to his aunt, she wanted it to go to someone who would use it.
I told him the value of the Lee Loader ($60 to $80 on eBay), the shot, and reckoned the gun was worth at least $200.00 if not more. Then I told him I could only afford $200.00, he called her and she said sell it! So now I belong to the Remington family as well as the Colt family. I don't think the gun has ever been fired, if it has someone really cleaned it up good. If it hasn't been fired, well, it soon will be. It has been handled some as there are small drag marks at each bolt stop slot.

I reckon it's true, some days are diamonds.

 

[4v50 Gary]

Good score.

 

[texascarl]

Nice! Good shooting to you.

 

[ZVP]

Price was about right, you got and gave a fair deal!
Pretty revolver!
I have always wanted a .36 Navy Remington! The caliber is just right for fun shooting and the revolver is way overbuilt. You'll never be able to get enough powder in it to harm it! Pressures are low.
As a self defense gun, you are well heeled. The .3 was good enough for many shooters to rely upon. If Hickock was safe with a "flimsy Colt (LOL!) you are carrying an unbreakable!
Good purchase!
ZVP

 

[Hellgate]

I don't think XX7 is the serial number. I think it is the date of manufacture code indicating its birthdate of 1971. Look on the bottom of the grip or frame for numbers or numbers & letters. They usually don't have "Xs" in the serial #s.

 

[kBob]

Hellgate,

Folks with no desire to post full serial numbers replacedigits with X. What original poster was thus telling us was that the max serial number would be 997 and it could be any lesser number ending in 7 from 007 up to 997.

On Italian made BP revolvers the date stamp is on the side of the frame below the cylinder usually on the right side and is either a Roman numeral or to letters. Italian proof dates from 1945 to 1953 were single aribic numerals from 1 to 9 though I do not believe anyone was making repro BP revovlers during that time.

Some one posted a date table this past week.

Any relation to the Hellsgate series of SF novels?

-kBob

 

[kBob]

Pulp,

Nice looking gun. I am jealous of the "free" .410 Lee Loader and shot, too.

One thing ol' Turner at Dixie Gun Works used to do in his catalog that drove me nuts was have a picture and discription of his boys using a .410 Lee Loader with BP....and then not offer a .410 Lee Loader! I always wanted to try that for myself.

My first BP experience involved a .410....I let a couple of boys shoot it with modern smokeless 3 inch shells and they let me shoot their great to the whatever grand dad's Three band Enfield which they were loading with shot and newspaper wadding over BP to take tree rats with. I have not gotten up the nerve to try to duplicate their hunting load with an Italian Repro 1853 Enfield, yet.

-kBob

 

[Pulp]

kBob, I don't see any reason not to try shot in your rifle. Many years ago a friend and I went out to sight in our T/C Hawkens. There were a bunch of dove flying around, he said he wished we'd brought shotguns. I said "We did." We put some powder in our rifles, a wad of paper towels, split the shot from a 12 gauge shell he had in his truck, then some more paper toweling. He killed a dove with his first shot. I got feathers several times but never killed one. He was totally amazed it could even be done.

 

[Hellgate]

Kbob,
I wasn't even thinking the X's were substitute numbers. (head slap and a "DUH!")
I'm no relation to any writer nor am I one myself. I post a lot and send in an occasional article to the SASS Cowboy Chronicle but that's about it.