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[TRAP55]

This curiosity recently came across my workbench and thought you might find it as interesting as I did. It's a Remington Rider Magazine Pistol, one of two firearms chambered in the uber rare .32 Rimfire Extra Short. The last original full box of 50 that sold at auction brought $1900!
Bad timing for it's introduction, made for a short production time. It was made to replace the two shot derringer, unfortunately about that time, 5 and 6 shot revolvers shooting more powerful rounds, and not much bigger, were too much competition.
This specimen was made circa 1880, holds five shots, valued at $3,500-4,000.

Cocking piece and hammer in fired/carry position


Cocked and locked w/.25acp round for size


Hole in cocking piece serves as rear sight


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[Mike A]

A very interesting old gun. I'm surprised nobody ever made a small rifle that was both cocked and cycled by the hammer alone, as this appears to be, since single action revolvers were so popular around the turn of the century.

[v/dBrink]

There may be other patents dealing with this particular design. This was the only patent I have in my patent database.

[VegasND]

So many interesting and curios designs have been tried in the past. I've read about these but never seen one.

Thanks for sharing some information.

[TRAP55]

The front hammer or cocking piece does all the work, the rear hammer does the firing. Kind of like a self loading Remington Rolling block.
In the first post, I mistakenly called this a Remington Elliot, I was researching an Elliot at the same time. This is a Remington Rider, invented by Joseph Rider. Thanks Brink!
Here's a patent drawing showing the ejection.

http://www.american-firearms.com/american-firearms/z-patent/patent-E/E.%20Remington%20&%20Sons/patent/118,152-3.jpg

Good article with pics of the different models:

http://www.remingtonsociety.com/rsa/journals/RiderMagazine