Artifact of the Week: Remington Model 8 Autoloading Antique Hunting Rifle
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- This week we look at the Remington Model 8 Autoloading Rifle. This may be the most iconic early hunting rifle in America and it revolutionized big game sport hunting. Let's take a look and squeeze off a few rounds!
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Cool rifle sir.
Thanks for the video! I collect those, have 6 or 8 of them in all calibres they came in. To add to your information, the model 8 (or Remington Autoloading Rifle before January of 1911) began production in 1906, actually. I have the 91st one built, and was built in March of 1906 according to some digging and research I did. Built in the second week of production, as a matter of fact! The model 8 was so-named because after Remington's acquisition of UMC in December of 1910, the re-organized company decided it needed a model name for it. Originally, they were going to follow Remington's previous numbering system, which started with the #1 rolling block and continued through to their #7. Next in line was the #8! But instead of calling it the #8, they called the model 8 to sound more like their competition.
@@barkerjames1980 thank you for all those details! Great info!
@@20thcenturyadventures my pleasure!
Absolutely beautiful rifle! Along with the Winchester 1907/10, those turn of the century semi-auto rifles are just so unique in their designs.
Thanks! Yes, I agree.
Really neat firearm, thanks for showing it to us.
JT
Thank you for the great video sir!
I had this rifle in 30 Remington , I had to sell it when times were tough as a young couple. I'm old now and wish I could find what happened to it.
I remembered in my teens, I tried to take the rifle apart, I had all the pieces laid out on my bed. My father was not very pleased with my efforts to say the least. It took me quite a while longer to get it back together than it did to take appart. Times were different back in the late 60's.
Love the spring pole, I've had 3, all in .35. Great moose hunting rifle. Turns em inside out.
I have two of these, both in .35 Remington. One was manufactured in 1926, the other in 1927 ... Great rifles, and I have taken deer with both of them. That said, they are notorious shoulder thumpers.
Good bless John Moses Browning. He, along with Sam Colt, Oliver Winchester, B. Tyler Henry and Christian Sharps made some of my favorite pieces of equipment. Thanks for another great video.
That only the 2nd 30 rem I have ever seen. My wife's great grandpa hunted with one many years ago and her 91 year old grand pa has it now put away. Great video. Loved that rifle.
Nice one! The model 8 is one of the best of the "forgotten favorites" from the turn of the last century, (I still can't get used to saying that), along with the Winchester WSL rifles.
That's a great example of a classic rifle. Seems to have pretty stout recoil too.
It's not terrible, but you certainly know when you've pulled the trigger! Haha!
My dad had one in 300 Savage. We downed bay a deer with it up until around 2000 when he traded it in. Really cool guns.
@@mattbrown9484 that would have been a Model 81. That was the second generation of these fine rifles. The 81 is a little more versatile, being offered in calibers like 300 Savage. However, I opted for the earlier Model 8 for the sake of historical authenticity, based on what I do with it. (Recreating historical hunting trips)
@@20thcenturyadventures - ah, got ya. I recall one year I learned my dad traded that 81 in on a used 30-30. I was heart broken. To him it was just an old tool. To me it was years of hunting memories and one of the coolest looking rifles I’d ever seen.
I own a nice one in 35 Remington. Great rifle old classic.
Love your hat design as well, one of my favorites.
Nice! I wish mine was 35 Rem. I am surrounded by National Forest, but the minimum rifle caliber on public land here is 35 caliber.
I like this old gun.I like to have this in my collection.I have a model 35 REM in my collection I target and deer hunt with it.David Back.
Good video
For some reason I never got a model 8 might have to remedy that
I do have a Winchester 1910 in .401 , made in 1912 A cool rifle but you can see how Winchester was limited by the browning patents. Killed a deer with it a few years back
those are great guns. i never bought one because you can't hunt with semi's in PA but i have quite a few of the pumps from the era, model 14 and 141 and hunt with them regularly. i also hunt with my grandads win model 1912. great guns and still fully functional and relevant over a hundred years later.
Very nice and I like it !👍
John who ?
Browning. He designed the repeating firing mechanism for Remington to create this rifle.