Hatfields & McCoys-LOTS of Remingtons

[Sonoma Mike]

The history channels "Hatfields & McCoys" had lots of remington pistols. Starting with civil war C&B and then into the 1880's with conversion remingtons. In fact it looked like they had their guns converted. They looked a lot like the actual conversions, no back plates. They even had some brass frames both in C&B and conversion. Didn't really see any colt 1851,60 or 61's , did see what looked like a baby dragoon, but the Remi's got got most of the action.

[River City John]

The brass frames are pure fiction in a belt pistol. Didn't see any little .31 cal Remington being used.

RCJ

[Deadeye Don]

I thought they did a very good job with the guns in the series.  You even saw a fair number of long barreled shotguns which, of course would have been quite readily available in the "hills".  The guns even showed up within the time frame they were actually made such as Colt SAA after 1873 and NO 1892s that I saw.  I even spoted a Henry along with 1866s.

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[Slowhand Bob]

Usually we see any repro, made with a brass frame, represented as a Confederate copy of such and such.  The reality, as I would guess it, is that an actual Remington would have been the hardest revolver for a Southerner to come by.  I have heard it said that Colt was a buisiness man, first, last and formost, so would try to get his product to anyone with the purchase price, even if it had to be smuggled across.  Now as I have read on this, Remington was altogether different, he was a totally dedicated Unionist and would not have been expected to allow any chance of his weapons reaching those he considered the enemies of the flag.

[Raven]

Usually we see any repro, made with a brass frame, represented as a Confederate copy of such and such.  The reality, as I would guess it, is that an actual Remington would have been the hardest revolver for a Southerner to come by.  I have heard it said that Colt was a buisiness man, first, last and formost, so would try to get his product to anyone with the purchase price, even if it had to be smuggled across.  Now as I have read on this, Remington was altogether different, he was a totally dedicated Unionist and would not have been expected to allow any chance of his weapons reaching those he considered the enemies of the flag.

There are Remingtons with CSA stamps and I'm sure plenty of southerners had them from before the war or obtained them as battlefield pick-ups.

Raven

[MJN77]

The reality, as I would guess it, is that an actual Remington would have been the hardest revolver for a Southerner to come by.

Doesn't look like it was too awful hard. This member of Bill Quantrill's raiders has four of them.

[TwoWalks Baldridge]

Remington was altogether different, he was a totally dedicated Unionist and would not have been expected to allow any chance of his weapons reaching those he considered the enemies of the flag.

Even if one accepts this, Remington s were found among Southerners during the war and the H&M Feud took place after the war when Remington s were available in all parts of the country.

[St. George]

Samuel Colt died in 1862.

Any sales to Southern states happened well before then - those commercial Colts that were available were shelf stock, as Ordnance placed purchase order after purchase order, and tied up production.

Remingtons were captured/battlefield pick-up weapons - CSA Ordnance didn't mark them, since they weren't collected and re-issued.

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