Anyone familiar with the Remington revolvers chambered for the .46 caliber cartridge?
http://guntoters.com/blog/2015/08/29...n-by-a-uberti/
Anyone familiar with the Remington revolvers chambered for the .46 caliber cartridge?
http://guntoters.com/blog/2015/08/29...n-by-a-uberti/
http://john1911.com/remington-1858-c...ge-conversion/
Remington started converting the 1858 revolver to cartridge conversions in 1868. Due to patents held by Smith & Wesson on the bore thru cylinder; they had to make an agreement, and pay a fee to them for each gun converted.
Although private gunsmiths did convert Remington New Model Army revolvers to shoot cartridges, most were done by the Remington factory in Ilion New York. Under license from Smith and Wesson, who controlled patent.
S&W and Remington signed a contract in February of 1868 (only a few months before the White patent expired) to convert a total of 4,574 revolvers to fire cartridges. These revolvers were converted to fire a 46 caliber rimfire cartridge. The new conversions were five shot revolvers, not six. Because of the size of the cartridge.
The work was done between September 1868 and April 1869. Most were purchased by B. Kittredge and Co. of Cincinnati. A large S&W distributor. S&W charged Kittredge $3.36 per pistol for the conversion. S&W kept $1.00 of this amount as their fee, and paid the remaining $2.36 per pistol to Remington.
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Now I know why I have a .463" diameter bullet mold! Matching it up to one of less than 5,000 revolvers made in 1868 is probably of vanishing probability!
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Interesting information! Thank you.
The story goes that when asked why he used a .45 pistol, John Wesley Hardin replied -
" because they don't make a .46"...... I guess he wasn't a " gun guy" or he would have known!
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