When a Remington Rolling Block rifle matches all the specifications of the Creedmoor rifles, but predates the catalog, or the 1874 Match, is it not a Creedmoor prototype? The match challenge was issued long before the 1874 Match, and LL Hepburn immediately went to work coming up with a design that met the Match rules. Most who know the rules also know what a rifle needed to be to match the rules. 34" barrel, 10 lb. weight limit, no set triggers, iron sights. As with the 1874 Match rifles, this rifle is in the same .44-77 BN cartridge. Also has the long-range tang sight, and heel sight base, plus windage-spirit level globe front sight.
So what else would it be except a prototype Creedmoor built before the match or before Remington cataloged the model? They sure wouldn't catalog a model and name prior to the Match, and after the Match these were simply cataloged as the No. 1 Long-Range, like all others, even if many never got shot in the famous Creedmoor Match. We still know them all as "Creeedmoor" rifles, even if they weren't in the 1874 Match. Just like guys call 1885 Winchesters "High Walls" even though Winchester never used the terminology. Not sure why you want to make it something else?
Last edited by Vall; 08/24/25 12:46 AM.
