Remington Martini Single Shot .22LR

[ltjc5]

Hi falling block / laurie,
What you have is a "Camp Perry" rifle. It was built by Remington to compete in some Camp Perry competition.I don't have all my info handy at this time , but you can get the info from a book called "Single Shots and More". I can't remember the author right now , but he has several books on single shot rifles to his credit. He states there were very few made (approx. 10 ) , and tells some of the history he knows about them. I have one, and I have seen one other . I also saw an ad for #5 in the Shotgun News 30 plus years ago. You have to remove the stocks to find the serial number. I hope this info helps. Some one on this site will surely know more about your rifle. If you have any more questions , send me an e mail
ltjc5

[nambujim]

While I can add little to the previous post, you can see from your picture that the rifle has a block for rather sophisticated "Iron Sights" along with scope blocks used for a Lyman, Unertl, Fecker, or Litschert Target Scope. The BSA Martini in .22 was popular with "Prone" Small Bore shooters starting in the late 40's thru the 50's but never approached the popularity of the 40X or the 52 Winchester. Al Freeland of the now defunct "Freeland's Scope Stands" was one of the leading proponents of the Single Shot BSA Martini but again must state those rifles along with your possible Remington version were strictly used for prone shooting and adapted poorly to the 4-position variety. I think you will find that properly scoped or even with "iron sights" like the Redfield Olympic your rifle will be deadly accurate at 50 feet and 50 yards. They were also used at 100 yards, pretty much the limit for .22 rimfire match ammunition, and these rifles were designed to use "standard velocity" or match ammunition.

Neat damn rifle!! Would love to see more pics...........thanks for telling us about it.

Jim Peterson
Charlotte, NC

[nambujim]

That is a very cool rifle, shot position smallbore for over 50 years and never saw one of those, and the rarity explains it. With only ten (10) made and Remington's lack of records will make it difficult to find out anything really definitive. Does it have a barrel code on it (left rear of the barrel in front of the frame), at least that would provide some information when it was made.
It would be a series of two or three letters like BE or LAA or whatever.

Love the pictures, nice job!

Jim Peterson
Charlotte, NC

[John Gyde]

Pages 358 & 359 in our book (Remington .22 Rimfire Rifles) have some info and photos of Camp Perry rifles. A photo of one I used to own (serial #8) is on page 359.

[ForumAdmin]

Just in case (not saying it's perfect and I don't have 2015 even in yet - volunteers?
There is a searchable index of all Journals (on the journal page).
http://www.remingtonsociety.com/journalsDB/journals.php