.44 Remington Centerfire

Revolver cartridge .44 Remington 44 Colt.JPG 300px Left to right - Benet primed .44 Colt & Remington, .44 Colt, and .44 Remington. United States Revolver Remington 1874 Remington 1875–1895 Rimmed, straight 0.447 0.447 0.448 0.480 1.065 40 Large pistol Remington Arms Co. website https://web.archive.org/web/20071119022032/http://www.remington.com/products/ammunition/ballistics/results/default.aspx?type=pistol&cal=17 2007-11-19 - Ballistics page. Accessed July 6, 2013. The .44 Remington Centerfire / 11.4x27mmR (often referred to as .44 Remington C.F. or .44 Remington) was a centerfire revolver cartridge with a heeled, externally lubricated bullet produced by the Remington Arms Company from 1875 until 1895. Only one weapon, the Remington Model 1875, was chambered for this cartridge.Remington Handguns Military Service Publishing Company 836996245 Harrisburg 1947 Karr Charles Lee Karr Caroll Robbins 62–63 History Remington introduced its first large-calibre centre-fire revolver in 1875, although many Model 1858 percussion revolvers had been converted to .44 Rimfire or .46 Rimfire cartridges, the latter with five-shot cylinders. The new Remington Model 1875 was initially produced in a cartridge of the company's own design, the .44 Remington Centerfire. The first customer for the new revolver was the Egyptian government, which ordered 10,000 of them. However, due to Egypt's failure to pay for an earlier order of Remington Rolling Block rifles, the order was never delivered. Remington apparently sold the revolvers on the open market to recoup its expenses.March 2025 Later examples of the Remington Model 1875 were chambered in .44-40 Winchester and .45 Colt calibres, and production of the .44 Remington Centerfire ended in 1895.March 2025 Technical background thumb|left|200px Information about the .44 Remington Centerfire cartridge is rather scarce, with even firearms cartridge encyclopedias failing to mention it. Some sources claim that the cartridge was very close in dimensions and ballistics to the contemporary .44 Colt, to the point of the two being interchangeable,Remington M-1875 Army Revolver http://www.collegehillarsenal.com/shop/product.php?productid=746 21 March 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20140522212906/http://www.collegehillarsenal.com/shop/product.php?productid=746 2014-05-22 dead but others dispute thisThe .44 Remington C.F. http://www.firearmstalk.com/forums/f16/44-remington-c-f-4782/ 21 March 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20140522194912/http://www.firearmstalk.com/forums/f16/44-remington-c-f-4782/ 2014-05-22 dead (see below for more information on the dimensions of the two cartridges). The .44 Remington Centerfire may also be confused with the .44-40 Winchester, due to the former habit of some US firearms companies of producing identical copies of their rivals' proprietary cartridges under their own designations.March 2025 The .44 Remington Centerfire and .44 Special or .44 Remington Magnum are not the same cartridge. Case dimensions for the .44 Remington are: 0.480" rim diameter, 0.448" base diameter, 1.065" length.Kirkland Turner Dixie Gun Works Catalog DGW http://www.huntchat.com/showthread.php?t=32180 2013-07-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20140317182823/http://www.huntchat.com/showthread.php?t=32180 2014-03-17 live The cartridge contained a 0.447" diameter heeled bullet over 32 grains of black powder.Suydam Charles R. U.S. Cartridges and Their Handguns, 1795–1975 1978 Wilcox & Follett Book Co 0695809180 202 The .44 Colt cartridge has a 0.456" base diameter, slightly wider than the .44 Remington, and this prevents it from being fully inserted into a .44 Remington chamber.Venturino Mike Shooting Sixguns of the Old West 2012 Wolfe Pub Co 978-1879356870 See also List of rimmed cartridges References Category:Pistol and rifle cartridges Category:Remington Arms cartridges Category:Rimmed cartridges