Shooting the Remington Rolling Block

For today's post, I'd like to show you a video that I took ant the local shooting range several days ago. I recently bought this antique Remington Rolling Block from the local gunshop, and I wanted to try firing it. We had found some very old ammo to try in this gun. We had to use antique ammo, because the ammo is obsolete, and there's only 1 company that currently makes ammo for this, and they make it in batches so it's not always available. That, and it's 80 dollars for a box of 20 shots, plus shipping.

This single shot rifle is chambered for the 11.15 X 58R cartridge, commonly known as the 43 Spanish cartridge. According to wikipedia, the 43 Spanish cartridge was adopted by the
Spanish government as their military cartridge in about 1867, and used in the Remington Rolling Block single shot rifle that was manufactured for the Spanish government. The 43 Spanish cartridge and the rolling block rifle were also adopted by several South American countries. The rifle that I have is a Modelo Argentino 1879, made by Remington for the Argentine government. This rifle is in rather good condition with a nice bore. A lot of these old rifles have pitted bores do to corrosive black powder ammo and lack of attention to proper cleaning.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my video! I hope you find it interesting.