1 Rolling Block Rifle, made circa 1870 in Ilion, New York. Description: EGYPTIAN Antique REMINGTON Rolling Block Rifle. 43 cartridge and it seems to me an industrial factory made one, quite similar to the modern ones.was it possible to somehow recharge those cartridges? A supply of ammunition was to be intended as boxes of already assembled cartridges or was it possible also for the soldiers to assembly their own ammo starting from blackpowder and lead?Д®gpRB03.jpg (47.36 KiB) Viewed 6627 times EgypRB01.jpg (7. EGYPTIAN Antique REMINGTON Rolling Block Rifle. As said before, 45-70 is about the best rebarreled option because the 45-70 is commercially available in 'Trapdoor' loads which.

43 cartridges: in a contemporary chronicle of a battle, an Egyptian officer awaiting for supplies for his troops (armed with Remingtons) states that 'finally the long awaited barrels of black powder and leand ingots arrived to the battlefield'. The Remington 1 Rolling Block was designed around the black powder era, as such it is limited to the pressure ranges of 'Trapdoor' loads, which from my understanding is 18,000 CIP, or 28,000 PSI chamber pressure. The Remington Rolling Block was a huge commercial success back in its day, and is often referred to as the gun that saved Remington (which was in dire financial straights in years following the. 1 Remington Military Rifle to be chambered in the '.43 Egyptian' cartridge, because they asked some sort of 'proprietary cartridge'. During the late 19th century, Sudanese religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah decalred. The rifle was originally manufactured by Remington on contract for Egypt, how it made its way to Ethiopia is a complicated story. Hi everyone, I'm collecting info about clashes happened in Sudan in the '70s of the XIX century between Egyptian governative troops and Sudanese rebels.ДЄt that time Egyptian soldiers were armed with Remingtons rifles, in fact in 1868 a large order was placed with Remington by the Egyptian Government for the No. Our Assessment: This Ethiopian (Abssynian) Rolling Block is a single-shot rifle chambered for.

Egyptian remington rolling block rifle