Remington Model 14

About the Remington Model 14

The Remington Model 14 is a hammerless, takedown pump-action repeating rifle designed by John Pedersen and introduced by Remington in 1912. Chambered for the company's rimless .25, .30, .32 and .35 Remington centerfire cartridges, it was Remington's first high-power slide-action sporting rifle. Its most distinctive feature is a spiral magazine tube that staggers cartridges so the point of one bullet never rests on the primer of the next, allowing safe use of pointed bullets in a tubular magazine. The magazine moves with the fore-end during cycling and loads through an opening between the fore-end and receiver.

John Pedersen, whom John Browning reportedly called the greatest gun designer in the world, began developing a high-power pump rifle for Remington in 1908. The resulting Model 14 popularized the .35 Remington cartridge and established the slide-action big-game rifle as an American hunting staple, a lineage continued by the Models 141 and 760.

Remington Model 14 specifications

Offered in four grades: Standard (14A), Special (14C), Peerless (14D) and Premier (14F). The carbine variant was the 14R with an 18-inch barrel, and the Model 14 1/2 chambered the .38-40 and .44-40 pistol cartridges. The Model 14 was succeeded by the improved Model 141 Gamemaster in 1935.