OT - Rolling Block - another link added

Old Shatterhand · Post by **Old Shatterhand** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:31 pm

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

E.g:

Regards,

Old Sh.

Ben_Rumson · Post by **Ben_Rumson** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:44 pm

Thanks!! Always like the Rollers

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:07 pm

Ben_Rumson wrote:Thanks!! Always like the Rollers

+1

Jimbo · Post by **Jimbo** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:33 pm

Guess I'll have to dig out the Swedish-english dictionary and try to remember my Swedish grammmer! Great photos too!

hfcable · Post by **hfcable** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:34 pm

the ones you are showing are beauties, are they yours?

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:34 pm

Old Shatterhand

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

Grizz

marlinman93 · Post by **marlinman93** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:59 pm

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

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 10:05 pm

Cool stuff just wish I could read Swedish

. Love the pics

shawn_c992001 · Post by **shawn_c992001** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:12 am

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.

Old Shatterhand · Post by **Old Shatterhand** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:44 am

More Husqvarna pics - engravings.

http://webnews.textalk.com/se/article_p ... ?id=264692