I understand the Rogers & Spencer is an accuarate shooter, am looking forward to some range time and will post results. I've yet to shoot the gun but I intend to start with the load info under the barrel. Those of you who have one of these know what I mean, it's just. I was surprised to find that cocking the gun feels nothing like cocking a Colt open top. The bore is as new indicating it may not have been shot much if at all. Mechanically it appears to be tight and indexing perfectly. He dovetailed a larger front sight blade and the barrel features load info for the gun under the loading lever ! It also appears he replaced the original barrel with either a custom barrel or a special order from Euroarms. The fellow member I bought it from told me he acquired a large collection from a recently deceased Civil War 'skirmisher' which I took to mean re-enactor. It appears the previous owner removed the finish to bare metal in the interests of aging the gun. I recently came into a Euroarms Rogers & Spencer revolver made in 1979 which has a couple of interesting attributes. I can’t recall all the names of the parts, but the trigger and stop spring, cylinder stop, hammer, even the trigger are all new. So I’m assuming with the damage it’s suffered from the rusting and the problems that were presented when it locked up, the cylinder is the only thing left to replace. the cylinder is proving to be a pain, and it suffered the most damage. I’ve managed to remove all the rust from the frames and barrel, and polish everything back out. But the frame and barrel and trigger guard/frame, and cylinder were all rusted very bad. The new parts are still in their packaging. I’ve recently “found” the gun again and it’s all rusted to hell. So when it locked up, they disassembled it, I had another pietta to shoot with and honestly forgot about the S&R. I am not familiar with the gun at all as far as it’s history goes. Dixie gun works, some vendors at one of the nationals for the NSSA, a local guy had some at one of the regionals I shoot at. Here's another picture showing both the Remington-Beals and the New Model Army. Like the originals, these reproduction Remington-Beals tend to get gummed up after shooting several shots but it really isn't something that most modern shooters would have a problem with by simply scraping off the fouling when they reload the pistol. By exposing the barrel threads in this area, the sharp edges of the threads scrape off the fouling as the cylinder revolves.
Notice how there is almost no gap in this area on the Remington-Beals. To correct this, Remington changed the shape of the frame in front of the cylinder to expose the threads at the rear of the barrel. One of these things was the pistol would tend to get gummed up rapidly because of the fouling on the face of the gun. This model was presented to the Army for testing and they found several things about it that they didn't like. It's called a Remington-Beals for the man who basically designed the gun, Mr Beals. The Remington-Beals Army was Remington's first army size (.44 cal) revolver and only about 1,900 of them were made.
What you bought is a reproduction of the Remington-Beals Army revolver. 457s in it but they take significantly more effort to load and I don't see the need to strain the loading lever doing so. That load really let you know you were firing a big bore sixgun! I have loaded. 454 balls on top of 25 - 30 grains of 3Fg, although I've loaded up to 35 grains of 3Fg Triple 7 in it. I've fired up to 42 rounds in one session without wiping or adding more lube, and the gun was still running fine. It handles fouling better than Remingtons due to the bushing on the face of the cylinder. The large dished out areas around the nipples allow cap fragments to fall right out. I wish I had one of the target models with adjustable sights. It's probably my most accurate percussion revolver, next to my Ruger Old Army. I bought one by EOA from DGW in London Gray about 10 years ago. A major reason why the Rogers and Spencer feels different from Colts and Remingtons is that it has a shorter hammer throw.
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