[Calibre44]

Guys - could any of you identify this gun?

It is a replica of a .44 Remmie but I haven't seen one like it before. Did a Remmie exist that was like this one or is the replica just 'made up'? A friend said it was a Remington Navy but I'm no expert - and neither is he!

[O.S.O.K.]

A standard, Remington 1858 - should be .44 caliber. There are .36 caliber "Navy" versions available from the usual makers but I don't know if they are copies of originals or a modern varient. It does have a shorter barrel - just like the Dixie "belt pistol" version:
http://www.dixiegunworks.com/images/RH0214.jpg

Again, I don't know that they manufactured them that way (5 1/2" barrel) or if it was special order or an after purchase modification.

But I bet someone here will....

[Old Fuff]

You didn't mention if it a .44 or .36, but it looks to me like a copy of Remington's New Model Army (.44) that is sometimes incorrectly called a "Model 1858."

Someone had the barrel shortened and cut away the web on the loading lever. While this could have been done by a manufacturer, the greater suspect would be a former owner. In any case I haven't seen anything like it offered here, but I have seen "owner-modified" guns along this line.

[ArmedBear]

Interesting.

Looks like someone did the same thing to a '58 that the factory did to the 1875 to make the 1890.

http://www.uberti.com/firearms/images/1875outlawArmy75.jpg
http://www.uberti.com/firearms/images/1890police55.jpg

The provenance could be informative.:)

Was this gun modified for use in an old movie, perhaps? 1890's are rare.

Did this gun belong to someone who couldn't afford a new gun, but wanted a gun that looked more like one?

Literature suggests that "being cool" was as important to certain people in the 19th Century as in the 21st.

[John-Melb]

Maybe it's not a Remington, Rodgers and Spencer perhaps?

[ama121]

No, that not a R&S!
Looks like some odd copy of remington or a rebuild remington.
Might be old re-blued rebuild frame whit new bought cylinder from dixi gun works :)

[Carl N. Brown]

Reminds me of a .36 Remington that I looked at
in a shop in Joneborough Tennessee a few years
back.

[sundance44s]

It looks like a Remington 1858 eaither new model Army or the Navy model ...depending which caliber it is Army 44 cal ..Navy 36 cal ...no Bears on the high seas .....Never have seen a Navy with the lanyard ring on the bottom of the grip frame , Remington put those on the Police models so the beat cops could twirl them around their index fingers to impress the gals .