Help ID - Rolling Block

[DevilDawg]

Hey Folks, my wife inherited this incomplete rifle and I’m hoping to get some information about it and have a stock made along with anything else it needs to get in good working order. Here are some pics, if there are other angles or markings needed please let me know and I’ll upload more. I believe it is a 45-70 from a conversation we had about it with her father.

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[marlinman93]

With the later rollstamp address it is post 1887 after the company went bankrupt, and became Remington Arms Co. The rotary extractor also indicates a later mfg. date. It's a military action with it's equal length thicker tangs also. I'm also fairly certain it's one of the late smokeless powder #5 style actions, which make extremely strong rifles.
The barrel is strange with the collar added at the receiver, which appears to have been made to allow the barrel to be installed easier with the notches in the collar. Whoever did the barrel didn't make the notches easier to remove also. Just a one directional notch.

[wlw-19958]

Hi There,

The action is a later #5 action, sometimes called the 1902 model.
Remington referred to it as the "improved" #5. It has the Albert
Day ejector (which would kick shells out rather than just extract
them).

The breach looks like the caliber might be larger than normal. These
were made in early smokeless small calibers (like 7mm Mauser) and
yours looks like it is larger than that. Do you know what caliber it is?
Also, it looks like it takes a rimmed cartridge. Is it by chance a smooth
bore? If so, I have an idea what it is (or was).

Cheers!
Webb

[marlinman93]

He mentioned in his first post it might be a .45-70 chamber.

[wlw-19958]

Hi There,

I missed that. I suspect that this was a line throwing gun.

Cheers!
Webb