OT - Rolling Block - another link added

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OT - Rolling Block - another link added

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Husqvarna Vapenfabrik built a lot of guns on the Remington Rolling Block. The Swedish army made the RB to its standard rifle in 1867, and Husqvarna built thousands for the army. However, even many hunting gun - rifles and shotguns - were made with the system too.

Modern Swedish metal industry was founded on the building of these american guns. Sweden bought the right to produce the systems from Remington, and had to renew the whole industry for the purpose. This renewment was beneficial for other branches of the industry than only the Royal armories. The seed of our prosperous industry was the RB.

In this article, which sadly enough is in Swedish, there are a lot of fine photos of old Remington RB: http://webnews.textalk.com/se/article.php?id=298379

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Thanks!! Always like the Rollers
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Ben_Rumson wrote:Thanks!! Always like the Rollers

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Post by Jimbo »

Guess I'll have to dig out the Swedish-english dictionary and try to remember my Swedish grammmer! Great photos too! :D
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the ones you are showing are beauties, are they yours?
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Old Shatterhand

Nice website. I love rolling blocks. Would love to own one again someday..,

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Thanks for the great link! I've never been excited by the military Rolling Blocks, but I absolutely love sporting models!
Those full stocked sporters pictured at the link make me weak in the knees!-Vall

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Cool stuff just wish I could read Swedish :( . Love the pics
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Post by shawn_c992001 »

I like my Roller in 50-90 Sharps with it's 26in. barrel. It shoots really will with 450grainers and a full case of black too. I need to post up some pics of it when I get some.
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