1875 Remington .357 Magnum

Harley Starr · January 06, 2011, 10:53:14 PM

Picked up my first 1875 chambered in .357 Magnum. Anyone else have experience with them that they want to share?

Deadeye Don · January 07, 2011, 06:32:57 AM

My main match gun is a 75 Remington in 45 colt. Great gun. You will likely want to replace that mongo main spring though.

Montana Slim · January 07, 2011, 08:18:14 AM

Quote from: Ridgway Texican Ranger on January 06, 2011, 10:53:14 PM
Picked up my first 1875 chambered in .357 Magnum. Anyone else have experience with them that they want to share?

I have one....sits in the safe a lot....waiting for my son to get interested.

It came with the stiffest action I've ever encountered

About 1/2 day of smoothing/stoning everthing, trigger job & reginding the mainspring & it turned into a great piece

Accurate too....and shoots BP loads without issue.

I've considered having it converted to .44 Spl (so I can shoot 44 Russian)...but this is not likely cost-effective.

Regards,
Slim

Harley Starr · January 07, 2011, 09:35:10 AM

I will definitely replace the stiff main spring, but I most certainly want to have her tuned up in the near future.

Flint · January 07, 2011, 12:29:26 PM

My 1875 and one 1890 is 45 caliber, but I have an 1890 in 357. It is heavy, but not as heavy as an 1875 in that caliber as the ejector rod support sail is cut away on the 1890. I prefer the lighter weight and balance of a 44 or 45 for shooting CAS, but many shoot 38 to reduce recoil in CAS competition.

Curley Cole · January 09, 2011, 01:10:29 AM

My Remingtons. I won these and the Jesse rig by Ghormley with one $10 raffle ticket. they are consecutive and I love em

Bottom pix is OldTop's Remington (he has a pair and in 44/40) and he love his too.

curley

Jubal Starbuck · January 09, 2011, 02:45:09 AM

I have a pair of Remington 1875 revolvers in .44WCF and I love 'em. A friend of mine has a nickeled pair of .44WCFs and he purchased spare cylinders in .357 Magnum and had them reamed out to .44 Special,allowing him to shoot .44 Colts and .44 Russians also. Polishing your cylinder pin with crocus cloth may help with shooting black powder loads. Mine work fine with BP loads, using soft lead home cast 200 gr. MAV-D bullets lubed with SPG or similar lube.

Regards,
Jubal Starbuck

Hoof Hearted · January 11, 2011, 05:12:15 PM

My turn

I have a few:
An early 44-40 Navy Arms with Nickle finish and a post fron sight
An early 45 Colt Richland Arms Blue and CC with post front sight

And a late Uberti in 45 Colt that someone broke the front sight blade off of (probably trying to "bend" it to adjust windage) I cut and recrowned the bbl and insatlled a Uberti dovetailed post sight for an "1858" (New Model Army) then reamed a new 357 cylinder to accept heel base 44's. Pretty darn close to the original 44 chambering and works well with my Henry and other original conversions!

The Pathfinder · January 12, 2011, 05:55:32 AM

HH, don't want to steal the thread but, I have a very early 45 Colt from Replica Arms (pre-Navy Arms) and it does not have the cross pin frame, it uses the original method of the spring on the cylinder pin. Took it to Guns Of August one year when Taylor's was handling the Hartford Armory guns and it was darn near a perfect match for them. Does you Richland Arms gun use the cross pin frame? I can't remember ever seeing an 1875 by Richland.