Rolling Block Sporting Shotgun

[marlinman93]

Since your shotgun has a military receiver and not a Sporting Rifle receiver, it's one of those Remington built from leftover military Rolling Block rifles. These variations used the milsurp actions, and buttstocks, and had the wider/thicker tangs, and lower tang was equal length to top tang. You can also see where the sling swivel hole in the trigger guard was filled with a pin.
I believe Remington referred to these as #1 and #2 shotguns, and the military reworks were the #2. No idea of a year, and all I can say for sure is they stopped making them sometime in the 1890's.

[aardq]

Hi marlinman 93,

Do you know if these were made Pre or post 1888?

Thanks,
Dan

[marlinman93]

Hi marlinman 93,

Do you know if these were made Pre or post 1888?

Thanks,
Dan

Everything I've seen states both. Supposedly from sometime in the 1870's to around 1893 is what I've seen mentioned.