So this is a question about a very specific type of rifle, but if anyone happens to know the answer or provide some insight I would greatly appreciate it.
A relative of mine owns an antique breech-loading shotgun that he maintains and occasionally fires. I'm pretty sure he fires it with 16-gauge. He found it a while ago behind a brick wall in the basement of an old town house in New England, Cask of Amontillado-style. I'm super into antiques, so I decided to do some research on it. This is when I made a weird discovery.
It wasn't a shotgun, it was a rifle. As far as I can tell, it's a Remington Rolling Block rifle that was made in the 1870s in Spain, and shipped to Cuba. It appears to have been chambered in .43 Spanish. It's marked with " MTZA Habana 1881", which I can only assume was the armory where it was stored. We think that it was captured during the Spanish-American war, and that's why it's in the US.
But the thing is, he swears up and down that it isn't rifled. He also says it works exactly as expected for a 16-gauge shotgun. I never got a chance to stick my thumb into it and see for myself. So how does a rifle lose its rifling?
I think these would be the perfect precise starting weapon, basically a single shot medium ammo rifle or pistol that reloads faster than the Sharps Carbine with less sway and recoil.
Give it a bit more range than the Vetterli and bam you have a good weapon for new players to train on and veteran prestige players to us as a ,granted they might be a niche item but so is seemingly every other weapon in the game.
Seriously how is the Remington Rolling Block not in this game. It was one of the most prevalent single shot actions ever made... and they did make some for France in 8mm Lebel just sayin lol. Fellow gun nerds back me up here.
I'm in the process of buying a rolling block in 7mm Mauser and I've read wildly differing posts on whether it's safe to shoot modern 7mm through them. I've mostly seen videos and people saying yeah it's fine but I've seen a not insignificant amount say it's dangerous. But I can't find a concrete answer. Are the videos of people shooting modern 7mm just lucky or is it typical internet rumor and hearsay that it's unsafe?
I have this .22 rolling block and the chamber is way out of spec because it keeps bulging light .22 loads on one side of the case I’m considering just resleeving it but I was wondering if there’s any safe cartridges that I could convert it to?
- Get on your horse and pull out which sniper you want (pull it from the left weapon wheel slot)
- Place it on the left side of your horse
- Go to the gunsmith and get off your horse, leaving the rifle on your horse
- Customize gun and select the short scope
- Back out of customization, not whole thing and select “place on your back”
- Exit the store and go to your horse and your previous rifle should still be on your horse still
- Press the left bumper and grab the rifle on your horse and it should fall on the ground. Pick it up. :)
Feel free to add more interesting glitches or tips in the comments
I don't have picture or video proof of it but I found a different rare rolling block on the last bounty hunter in the barn during the mission Magicians for Sport where you save Trelawny. I don't know if this is true for everyone but I though I should share it
*Note it's a Bolt Action rifle. I got the title wrong because I'm an idiot...
I've avoided this sub since I'm trying to avoid spoilers but would value some thoughts. I'm about 43% progress though still in Chapter 2. I saw that you can get the Bolt Action rifle in The First Shall be Last mission (when you rescue Sean).
Should I go back to 38% and redo the mission to get the rifle? Is it worth losing some progress?
Thanks for any thoughts!
https://youtu.be/zst7uOYvvSk
I own this weapon in story mode and I am in love. Its so much fun to shoot. In RDO I have the carcano, effectively the best if not one of the best guns in the game for PvP. I want to get the rolling block because its fun but if I'm not gonna be in situations where I'm using it then I don't wanna waste money on it yet. I know over all the carcano is better, I just wanna hear from you guys why the rolling block would even be worth buying since I have the carcano
