Talk:Remington Rolling Block rifle

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"Red Indian" language offensive[edit]

I made an edit stripping out racist language, which was immediately undone. Referring to Native Americans as "Red Indians" is offensive, inaccurate (they're not Indian), and not fitting with the standards of Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drumminor2nd (talk • contribs) 18:30, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In World War II[edit]

It is said that some Remington Rolling Block Rifles, which were originally issued to the Philippine Constabulary early in the twentieth century, were used by Philippine guerrillas against the Japanese. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.105.76.54 (talk) 09:52, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalization[edit]

It appears that the capitalization of "Rolling Block" came in with the 1956 book by Hatch, Remington Arms In American History. Anyone know of anything earlier? Dicklyon (talk) 01:00, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I got a copy of Hatch and some other books. This does seem to be where the capping started. No clear indication of why he capped it. The cited source about the Little Bighorn uses lowercased "Remington rolling-block [rifles]". The Guns of the NRA source uses "Remington rolling block rifles" and caps Rolling Block in specific model names. The cited Marcot book uses "Remington rolling block *", for * being rifle, actions, firearms, system, weapons. The cited McLachlan book says "Remington 'rolling-block' rifles". In general, neither the cited sources nor other sources suggest that this term is consistently capitalized, or treated as a proper name. Anyone mind if I just fix it? Dicklyon (talk) 00:16, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Little Big Horn[edit]

I removed the mention of Little Big Horn because the 7th Cavalry was equipped with the Springfield carbine Model 1873 *not* with the RB. This was also steted in the linked Source. I also removed the Native Americans because the used whatever could shoot straight. No.6 (talk) 11:46, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]