Original Old Remington 1858

[MojoQuestions+99]

1858

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Ok All, In a barn up in maine my daughter found an 1858 Remington revolver, fairly rusty, but soaked it in oil and got it apart and was able to read ser# 91345 in the three places I found was supposed to be. it needed a new main spring and the other two springs, which I was able to find and replace, still haven't found a front sight for it and am not 100% sure what it should look like other than it is a dovetail type. any info about it I can get would be nice to hear from someone. I plan on shooting it someday so loading info would be nice also. I have shot Black powder before just not this old. thanks in advance gilly

[dieNusse1]

Nice find!

The front sight appeared to be in the original style. It appears to be less rusted than the rest of the gun - have you replaced it?

I don't see any evidence of any inspection cartouche on the left grip so maybe it was not issued to the military but sold on the civilian market.

Enjoy it!!

[MojoQuestions+99]

yes I have replaced the front sight, I found a repo for a prettia ? that was real close, just a tad skinny, so I added a thin layer of silver solder to the rear edge and then filed it to fit snug in the dovetail, still not sure how far to cut the top down as I haven't fired it yet, still working on that, there is a cartouche on the very bottom edge of left grip but hard to make out, I will try to post a picture of it.

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