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I just picked up a transitional revolver. The previous owner had refinished it. The bluing is consistent and looks fine to me, but I don’t know anything about the various types of bluing. Does this look like the type of blue that Remington would originally have put on this gun in the 1860s? It is a ...

I am interested in learning more about the early (pre-1873) civilian rolling blocks. Would civilians have been mostly getting used military rifles, or were there a lot of rifles sold directly to the civilian market? Do we know how many civilian guns were full stock and how many were sporting models ...