The Remington-Lee carbine, shown in Figure 14, has a total length of 39Y2 inches and a 20 inch barrel and weighs 7% pounds. It is adapted to the same cartridges as the small bore rifle.
The Rernington-Lee magazine inilitary rifle used in the United States Navy, Great Britain, China, ancl other countries, has a total length of 52 inches, weighs pounds, and has a caliber of .43 or .45 Spanish. It is a single breech loader that can be instantaneously changed into a perfectly safe magazine arm, giving an unequaled rapidity of fire when the time taken in recharging the magazine is con sidered. It has a fewer number of component parts than many other arms made. Every part is simple and strong. The rifle weighs pounds without bayonet and can be used as a sporting arm. The breech system can be mounted or dis mounted in ten seconds. The magazine may be attached or detached in one second. This is a modern form of magazine, and one of the best where continuous rapidity for many shots is required. It has been imitated or adopted in many modern forms of military guns. Cartridges are carried in the magazine, attached or detached, in the safest possible form, and ender the best conditions to resist wear or deformation in transportation in the field. The Remington-Lee magazine rifle is one of the few military repeating arms which has demonstrated its superiority in rapidity with accuracy as a repeater over its execution as a single loader, in cases where the magazine must be recharged.
The new Model small bore military rifle, shown in Figure 15, designed for smokeless powder, is noted for simplicity, strength, durability, and rapidity of fire. It was produced to meet the urgent demand for a high power rifle of the simple Remington system, with which the armies of South and Central America arc so perfectly familiar, and to whom the complicated magazine arms have been a con stant source of trouble and danger. This model has a barrel 30 inches long and weighs, without the bayonet, pounds. The bayonet weighs I pound. It is adapted to the .3o caliber Government, the 7m/mcaliber Mauser, Models Spanish and Brazilian, and the 7.65'"/„, Belgian Mauser cartridges.
The Remington small bore carbine, shown in Figure ao, is the same in mechan ism as the Remington small bore rifle, Figure 15, except that it has reduced length of barrel adapted for the use of cavalry or mounted police and also for infantry use in the thick underbrush. The total leng,th of thc arm is 36 inches, with a 20 inch barrel. It weighs 7 pounds and is adapted to the cartridges shown in Figures 16, 17, and 18.
The Remington auxiliary rifle barrels are now largely used and are popular. They extend the entire length of the shotgun barrel, and are held firmly in place by a thumb nut at the muzzle. They shoot accurately up to 5oo yards, and can be inserted into any shotgun and taken out with perfect ease. thus making the most desirable combined shotgun and rifle. They weigh about two pounds.
The Remington Spanish Model .43 and .5o caliber rifles are of the original Remington system and more than a million of them have been manufactured and sold. This model has a total length of so inches and weighs 9Y4 pounds. The carbine of this model has the same action as the rifle, a total length of 35 inches. and weighs 7 pounds.
The Remington light " Baby " carbine, .4.4 caliber, has a total length of 35%2 inches and weighs 5g pounds, about double that of the Army revolver. For sporting, police and saddle use it is a very desirable arm.
The Remington new model target pistol, shown in Figure 21, is designed to meet the demand of pistol experts and shooting galleries for a well-balanced, accurate, and firmly adjusted arm. The breech mechanism combines simplicity, convenience and durability. The barrel is to inch, half-octagon, carefully' bored, rifled and finished. The finely finished mehanisin insures a uniform trigger pull of 2,Vi to 3 pounds. The arm is provided with an ivory bead front sight, and adjustable winil gauge rear sight. and weighs 2T/2 pounds.
The Remington double derringer, shown in Figure 22, is the only double der ring-e, now in the market, and is most compact and reliable. it is double shot, 41 caliber, rim fire, and weighs it ounces. See Lee Straight Pull Rifle.