New to me Remingtons

[Silver Creek Slim]

I now have a pair of 1875 Remingtons in .44 WCF.    I picked up the last one on Monday. They are Navy Arms/Uberti. These are some of the early ones. One serial is 045xx. The other is 048xx. The one I just bought had barely been used. There is no holster wear on the bluing. It had the heaviest hammer spring on any of my Remingtons including NMA's, which have very heavy springs to set off the caps. I swapped springs with my .45 Remington. The action is very stiff. Nothing a bit of shooting it won't take care of. 

Slim

[Scattered Thumbs]

You lucky you. 

Now I'm envious.

[Silver Creek Slim]

You lucky you. 

Now I'm envious.

Slim

[Wes Virginian]

Good Lookin' pistol's!

[Grapeshot]

The Remintons do have a heavy spring.  The best thing to do is to let a gunsmith thin the springs and lighten up the force neccessary to cock them and it will also lighten up the trigger pull some.

You can do it yourself with a dremmel tool, just quench the springs often.  Don't let them get too hot.  My rule is if they feel warm, quench.  Use either a grinding/polishing drum shapped stone or a couple of the sanding drums in different grits.  Go slow and test often.  You can take metal off easy enough, but you can't put it back on.

I bought .357 cylinders for mine and had Walker 47 bore them out to .44 Special and fit them to the ones I have.  Now I can fire .44/40, .44 Russian, .44 Colt and .44 Special in the Same guns.

[Tommy tornado]

Now you will have to also put lanyard rings on the base of the grips.