1875 Remington what cartridge.

the telegraphist · Post by **the telegraphist** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:45 am

Just watched a movie called Lone Rider starring Lou Diamond Philips, Stacey Keach and Vincent Spano. The bad guy in one scene is seen loading a nickel plated revolver 1875 Remington with very short centre fire rounds, am wondering what they are, would they have been 44 Russian or 45 S&W. They were way too short to have been 45 Colt. I know the old cap n ball Rems were 44. Not very well up on the Remington revolvers history and cartridges. I know also some of the Remington cap N ball revolvers were converted as were the colts to fire centre fire rounds. There was a projectile in the case, not just a blank crimp-over.

Leverluver · Post by **Leverluver** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:08 am

Sure they weren't just 5 in 1 blanks? The ends are jsu tcrimped over. Beyond that, no telling what Hollyweird will do.

Post by **Hobie** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:45 am

I think the standard for the 1875 was the .44-40 (.44 WCF) and he would likely be loading 5in1 blanks.

Arminius · Post by **Arminius** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:51 pm

IMHO the .45 Colt was a "Proprietary" Cartridge, so not used ( allowed ) in any other guns than Colt´s.

Therefore the calibers used would be .44-40, .38-40, .44 Henry Flat, .32-20 - eventually even in that order

Hermann

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:45 pm

The Remington 1875 was chambered in the 44 Remington cartridge as well as the 44-40 cartridge.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:58 pm

Perhaps something like this?

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =142736998

Or this?

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =143410861

The .44 Remington centerfire round is pretty rare, IIRC, so I doubt Hollyweird found and used original rounds, even downloaded into blanks. But who knows - they have been doing a better job depicting period weapons, so maybe for the close-up of a loading sequence they got the real thing!

Buck Elliott · Post by **Buck Elliott** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:59 pm

.46 Remington...

the telegraphist · Post by **the telegraphist** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 5:22 am

Buck Elliott wrote:.46 Remington...

Very interesting and rare rf cartridge but doubt it would have found use in an 1875 model. Conversions yes. Probably on screen it was a 5 in 1. Was not a 44/40 so will lean towards 44 Remington. Its all theory, the mind will accept the Remington cartridge for the sake of authenticity.

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