The Remington–Keene is an early bolt-action

rifle A rifle is a long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting, with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ( rifling) cut into the bore wall. In keeping with their focus on accuracy, rifles are typically designed to be held with ...

with a tubular magazine. Remington manufactured prototypes of Keene's patents for consideration by the United States Army Ordnance Department Magazine Gun Board convened in 1878. Although the Army rejected the design in favor of the

Winchester-Hotchkiss The Winchester Hotchkiss was a bolt-action repeating rifle patented by Benjamin B. Hotchkiss in 1876 and produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and Springfield Armory from 1878. The Hotchkiss, like most early bolt-actions, had a single ...

, Remington commenced production and offered the rifle to the United States Navy Bureau of Ordnance. The Navy purchased 250 rifles for comparison with their 2,500 Hotchkiss rifles and 300 M1885 Remington-Lee rifles. The Remington–Keene rifles were delivered in 1880 with US and an anchor stamped on the left side of the barrel and WWK and P (proof) stamped on the right side of the barrel by Lieutenant William W. Kimball. These rifles remained in service for less than a decade aboard and . In July 1880 the United States Department of the Interior purchased 600 ''Frontier Model'' carbines with barrels to arm the Indian Police on a number of reservations in the western United States. Rifles were manufactured for civilian sales chambered for .45-70,

.40-60 Winchester The .40-60 Winchester (or .40-60 WCF) is a rimmed, tapered centerfire rifle cartridge designed for use in lever-action rifles by Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1884. Description and performance The ''.40-60 Winchester'' is a centerfire rif ...

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.43 Spanish The .43 Spanish was a centerfire firearms cartridge developed by Remington designers around 1867.Thombs, David A., and Barrett, Stephen PThe internet and firearms research with reference to the .43 Spanish Remington Rolling-Block and its ammu ...

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The 1878 Remington-Keene: Tube Fed .45-70 Bolt Action Rifle
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