Remington Number 4 Rolling Block .32 rimfire came home

[David LaPell]

Well, I got the Remington Number 4 home today, I took the action apart which needed a pretty good cleaning, the rifling is excellent in this gun, I have ordered a couple of brass casings from Dixie Gun Works that are reloadable and can't wait to at least try and see what that's like when I shoot it.

I also found what was keeping the loading block from coming down all the way, it was nothing more than a burr on the top of the hammer. A few passes with an India stone and the gun works perfectly.

 

[mmaher94087]

I wish an ammo manufacturer would step up and manufacture the .32 RF again. I loved this RF stuff and shot many thousands of the .32RF in my S&W Model #2 Army, Pond .32 and Flobert rifle. I was living in Canada at the time the .32RF was made obsolete and shot-up all I had. I know this is a pipe dream but wouldn't it be wonderful.....

 

[DocB]

Neat gun. Back in the day (early 1960's) we could buy the rolling block single shots for $10 or less. Being a kid, that was an affordable deal. The 32 rim fire was hard to find even 60 years ago.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I was standing in a gun store in the mid 80's, a guy had a F&W 32 RF that the gun store had no ammo for. So he just handed it to me and walked out. At the next OGCA show I found plenty of loose rounds at 10 to 30 cents each, but full boxes were pretty pricey! I picked up 70-75 rounds in small groups of 3 to 5, for less than half of a box price. That is pretty much a life time supply for me now, but that didn't last to the next show back then! Back then, all the rounds but 1 went bang. I had a 41 Swiss RF rifle at the same time, only 50% of the rounds went bang (those were very old Swiss military rounds, the American made pre WWII stuff was almost all duds!)

Ivan