REMINGTON ARMORY {not Arms} MODEL 1918 ?
Hi I have from my late friend's estate a "REMINGTON ARMORY Model 1918 No." {there is no Model NO.}. Has anyone ever heard of a REMINGTON ARMORY & not ARMS Company ?? Its not listed in the Blue Book Of Guns. Its a very very long Bolt Action Military type rifle & stock {like the 03}, the barrel is 29" long & total gun is 51.5" long. I think its Cal. 30-06 & has a fixed magazine loaded thru top that does swing down if lever is pushed but I think thats for cleaning or unloading it. Stock is full lenght just short of the front sight, Bolt handle is straight. Its rear sight has range steps marked 4 6 8 10 12, & when fliped up its markings are # 13 thru 32. I plan to list it here on GB but wanted to find out all I could about it before I do. So if anyone has any info on this gun & its worth please let me know here or via email at rat440@lycos.com . Thanks .
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Rat,
I think that I know what you have, but, need just a little more information. Does the magazine stick down below the bottom of the stock and does it have two ribs on each side? Are the barrel bands held in place by screws clamping the bands? Does the stock have finger grooves just in front of the action and a through bolt at the back of the groove? Straight bolt handle? Split rear receiver bridge and octagon shaped front ring? The top of the breach should be marked Remington / Armory / 1918 and then a double headed eagle. If your rifle has these things then it is a Remington Mosin-Nagant Model 1891 rifle made for the Czarest Russian government in WWI. About 650,000 of these rifles were made. The contract ran from 1916 until it was ended by the Russian Revolution of 1918. Remington was stuck with thousands of these rifles after the contract was terminated. They sold them off through their commercial outlets for many years, they even produced ammunition for them until the mid 1950's. The correct ammunition is the 7.62X54R Russian cartridge, which is a fat, rimmed, .30 caliber round. Some of these rifles were rechambered to .30-06, however, if the barrel was not set back when it was rechambered, then the rifle is unsafe to shoot.
Values on original rifles run from $200-$400. If the rifle has been altered then values are much less.
Hope that this has been of some help.
Scout0 -
This is outside my area of expertise but the only Remington Armory marked military rifles I am familiar with were those Remington made Mosin-Nagant rifles made for Russia between 1916 and 1918. The full length stock, straight bolt handle, and fixed magazine with the "swing down" feature seems to match. These would be chambered for the 7.62 Russian cartridge which has a rim and not .30-06. Well over 650,000 of these Remoington Armory marked rifles were produced. Does your rifle look anything like a Russian Mosin-Nagant? Is the receiver ring stamped with any sort of emblem? If you are going to list it for auction I have to assume you have some photos of the rifle...how about a peek to help us out?
Mark T. Christian0 -
Don't have my reference material with me today, BUT believe you have a Mosin-Nagant rifle, made under contract with the Czarest Russian Government, by Remington during the First World War.
If is is indeed a M-N, the original chambering would be the 7.62 x 54R mm Russian Military Cartridge.
If your rifle is in factory original excellent condition, (NOT SPORTERIZED IN ANY WAY) it would be of interest to collectors and would have some value.0 -
Hi Thanks to all 3 of you as I believe you have ID the gun & it is what you say it is a Russian Mosin-Nagant 1891 & it has almost all the features Scout has listed. I also just happen to watch on the HISTORY Channel "The Weapons Of the USSR " & I did see in the early years a gun that looked like this one called the Mosin-Nagant & they said in the program that companies in the USA did make them for Russian Military. So thanks to you guys & the HISTORY Channel I have ID this gun & can now list it on GB. The only thing I don't know is its Cal. But I think its still 7.62X54R Russian as my friend does have some of this ammo. The gun doesn't have a bayonet lug but did have a cleaning rod. OK once again thank you all for the good work . RAT 0
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