The Herd Decimator

In 1887, an official government study of the decimation of the great buffalo herds concluded that, next to the Sharps rifle, the Remington rolling block rifle was the most popular with hide hunters. Like the Sharps, the Remington, with its simple and durable center hammer and rolling breechblock action, came in a variety of powerful big-game cartridges of the day and saw heavy use by frontiersmen.  Although today’s shootists are usually not chasing down herds of buffalo, they are big f