The Remington Model 14 was a

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designed for the

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company by John Pedersen. It is part of a series of rifles that include the Remington Model 14-1/2 and the Remington Model 141.

History

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, he designed numerous sporting arms and as well as Remington's only house-brand semiautomatic pistol the Model 51. In 1908, Pedersen was assigned the task of designing a rifle that would compete with the

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lever action.

Design

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designed semi-automatic Model 8 in 1906, along with a new line of cartridges for it. The Model 8 didn't sell overly well and Remington felt that a manually operated gun would sell better. Since Winchester had a near lock on the lever-action market, Remington chose a sleek-packaged pump action along with the same four calibers introduced with the Model 8 rifle. The Model 14's design incorporated several innovative concepts. Among them was a spiral magazine tube to prevent bullet tips from contacting the primer of the cartridge in front of them. This magazine moved with the fore-end when pumping the action. Loading was through an opening in the magazine itself located between the fore-end and the receiver. The bolt unlocked via a button pressed through the ejection port though firing the gun automatically unlocked the bolt. The Model 14 was a takedown rifle that featured a single knurled screw on the left side of the receiver that was withdrawn allowing the trigger group and buttstock to be removed from the bottom of the gun. Original prototypes were chambered for the .30-30 cartridge, but the gun was only offered for sale in the above-mentioned calibers. The 30 Remington was basically a rimless version of the .30-30 and load data from that cartridge is interchangeable. describes the basic operating mechanism of the Model 14 which was later used on the Model 14-1/2 and Model 141.

Variants

;Model 14R Carbine :The Carbine version featured the same specs as the standard model but with an barrel. ;Model 14-1/2 :Introduced a year after the Model 14, the 14-1/2 had many of the same features as the original. The largest difference was that it was now available in

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and

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. It also had an increased magazine capacity. ;Model 14-1/2 Carbine :The carbine version of the Model 14-1/2 had the same specs but with a shorter barrel of only . ;Model 141 :The Model 141, which was introduced as an upgrade to the Model 14, featured a white metal bead ramp front sight and a step-adjustable rear. Introduced in 1936, it was ultimately replaced by the Model 760 in the early 1950s. ;Model 141R Carbine :The carbine version of the Model 141 featured a shorter barrel of only .

References

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