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And that’s why there will always be a market for the “other” autoloaders.

A TRIO OF UNUSUAL REMINGTON MILITARY ROLLING BLOCK RIFLES

BY GEORGE J. LAYMAN

Perhaps it is a stroke of providence that an author may, without warning, be deluged with an entirely unexpected crop of examples of a specific commodity that serve to make a work of nonfiction an even better finished product. Such has been my experience during my research on my latest book, A Collectors Guide to the Remington Rolling Block Military Rifle and its Variations (2009: Mowbray Publishing Company, Woonsocket, RI).

This latest work is the most intriguing study of an antique firearm that I have ever encountered, and it didn’t reach its climax until the final nine months preceding publication. Never before did so many of the rare, unknown, and unexpected variations of the Remington military rolling block rifle make a showing in so short a span of time. From the practically unheard-of Remington Model 1902 in 7.62x54 mm caliber, to the Remington Cadet No. 206 in .45-70 caliber, to one of six known remaining examples of the Springfield-Remington Transformation rifles tested by the St. Louis Board, to solving the puzzle behind the Remington Greek Contract Model, never has such a roller coaster of a book ever confronted me!