Remington!!!

The History of Remington

Remington was invented in the year of 1816 by Eliphlet Remington ll believed he could build a better gun than he could buy, and he set out to craft such a gun on his father's forge located at Ilion Gulph, New York. In the autumn of 1816, Eliphalet entered a shooting match with his new flintlock rifle, and while he only finished second, his handmade rifle was a success. Orders for new Remington-made rifles and barrels began to accumulate from the many other contestants, and before Eliphalet left the shooting field, he was in the gun business. Remington moved its operations from Ilion Gulph to a site close to the newly constructed Erie Canal. This site, in Ilion, New York, is part of the property on which the Ilion firearm plant sits today. The Remington Revolver was the only firearm to offer a challenge to the dominant Colt revolvers. It was considered by many to be every bit the gun a Colt was, and then some. It is said that soldiers of the Civil War would trade a handful of Colts for one Remington Army. After the war, the Remington out-sold the Colts as a surplus weapon because the soldiers had seen how the two guns stood up side by side to combat use.

It is important to me because if it did not happen we would not have the Remington gun factory. And i like that company more.