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I have 2 RB's both in 7mm, they could be bought by the POUND back in the 50's-70's and normally have been sporterized, or rechambered, or otherwise non-original. 7m/m was one of the earliest necked cartridges and many nations latched onto it early and thrived until the '06/8mm pressures rolled through the door 1900-1910. contract Remington scattered their sticks into the global wind and got millions of rifles sold the world around. Anyways, to try and make up for the lacking US Prop. I personally feel the RB's are a simpler and more user friendly piece, but I wager many on here would side with the Trapdoor, same arguement almost 150yrs or so later. Some say it was some shady dealing behind closed doors to push the Springfield through over the Remington RB's. The RB's were designed originally to compete for a 45 or so "cartridged" calibered rifle post Civil War, unfortunately (IMHO) the Springfield Trapdoor ended up taking the contract for our now famous 45/70.
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That Batjak prop should have been worth something as movie memorabilia.
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Is your RB a Husquevarna original? Husky had license from Remington to build the RB, and I believe did the conversions to 8x58R too.
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The conversion (sporterizing) was done before they reissued the rifles to their game warden/forest ranger equivalents (and probably other sundry government civilian jobs. Very rusty, probably from the black powder blanks.I have read that the Swedes were converting the RBs to 8x58 even after they had switched their army to the 6.5x55. Found out it was a prop gun for John Wayne's movie company. Shoots very well with the Buffalo arms stretched and reformed 45-70.Īt one time I had a 7mm RB that had BATJAC engraved in the side of the buttstock. The heat treat to the receiver, replacing the hammer and breech block, replacing the barrel were done in 1891. I have one of the Swedish RB that was converted to 8 X 58 RD. Remington also sold France quite a few rifles early on in WW1 chambered for the 8mm Lebel. IIRC they came out with a sporter they called the M1905 (I think a 24" bbl), and it was available in several calibers, military and sporting. I believe that during this time Remington was merely putting together rifles from parts on hand, and selling them to anyone who'd buy them. It's barrel was stamped "7mm Span" just like the original barrel on my 1897. The action had very noticeable but somewhat dulled case colors on the action. It had the correct 1902 type ladder sight with cosmoline squishing out from under the ladder spring, around the cleaning rod and forend band and on the sides of both the hammer and breechblock with rotary extractor. As luck would have it he bought a textbook M1902 Rem RB that looked like it'd just come out of a crate. Later another shooting buddy was visiting one of his kids and in the town was a gunshop he stopped into. I sold this to a buddy and it shot quite well. It had the rotary extractor and it's barrel was stamped "7 SM". The rifle's action had the same overall looking condition, so if the breechblock was a non-factory replacement it had been done long enough past that it'd gained the same appearence as the rest of the action.
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While it looked exactly like my 1897, this one had the bent breechblock lever as on the M1902's. Not too long after that I was high bidder on another M1897 Rem RB on Auction Arms. On it the barrel was simply stamped "7mm". My gunsmith milled it for the slidding extractor and screwed it on. I bought the barrel and it was like brand new but took the rotary extractor. Through a rather long story I'd contacted Sharon Barrel company and was told they had an original Rem RB 7x57 barrel they'd taken off a M97 someone had in for a conversion into a BPCR for silhuette use. I have a M1897 and it's original bbl was stamped "7mm Span", just ahead of the handguard.
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American countries for military sales, and made a big deal of the simplicity and ruggedness of the rifles, in addition to their much lower cost vs the more desireable Mausers. At time of your Rem RB, and in that general time frame of 10-15 years after the turn of the 19th century, Remington was having a hard time moving them in any numbers at all.