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Got back from the CGCA show in Colorado and didn't buy much. I did trade a #1 Rolling Block in .32-20WCF for a project Rolling Block. It's a Rodney Storie casting kit that Rodney had been working on and got quite a ways along before he traded it to me. It still needs a front sight dovetail, a rear tang sight, stocks, and all the screw heads finished. But it has a new 26" Green Mountain .22LR barrel fitted, and wont take a lot of work to get it ready to color caseharden, and rust blue it. It's been converted to coil spring, so it has a nicer hammer drop than original flat springs had. I have a contact in Oklahoma who has the pattern for No.7 stocks, so I'll have him build a 90% inletted stock set for it Should be a fun project, but probably not a quick one!
Original No.7:
And yesterday a friend offered me an old S&W New Model #3 handgun. I owned one of these 4 decades ago and sadly sold it. So when he offered this one at a very fair price I had to buy it. It was shipped from S&W in April 1884, and has a 6.5" barrel, chambered in .44 Russian. That's an easy cartridge to make from .44 Special or .44 Mag, and fun to shoot. I still own the custom cross draw holster I had built for the first one I had, and this one slid right in perfectly!
GunnyMack wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2026 3:06 pm
That top tang is really interesting. I have not seen that before.
Remington had a lot of 1871 pistol actions leftover, so they had workers heat and bend the top tangs in a jig to alter them for a rifle stock. It must have been a major project for the factory as these were $24 rifles in the early 1900's! They were considered target rifles and every one came with a target fired at the factory to show accuracy. The high price resulted in very low production as sales were not good. I've always thought the No. 7 rifles were the most beautiful rifles Remington ever offered. I've held a couple at gun shows and they just feel fantastic in your hands and point perfectly.
Bob Warren built a beauty from a casting kit at the ASSRA forum, and covered it well in a thread he posted there. I have it linked in my favorites and will be referring to his work often as I go forward.
