Remington XP-100

The bolt-action pistol Remington built around a cartridge designed for it, told through the record rather than the folklore: ten factory chamberings with the years Remington itself gives, ballistics computed as a pistol instead of borrowed from rifle barrels, and what the single-shot and the XP-100R repeater are each actually for.

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Remington XP-100 · Deep Dive

Remington XP-100

The most-quoted .221 Fireball velocity was measured in a different gun, and the famous 780 foot-pounds "at 300 yards" is muzzle energy.

The bolt-action pistol Remington built around a cartridge designed for it, told through the record rather than the folklore: ten factory chamberings with the years Remington itself gives, ballistics computed as a pistol instead of borrowed from rifle barrels, and what the single-shot and the XP-100R repeater are each actually for.

Photo: Remington XP-100 with the original moulded nylon centre-grip stock by Guns.com

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    Volumes

    1. Vol 1 Origin and History — the Experimental Pistol That Outlived Its Experiment 1963 to 1998, every variant, and the discontinuation date nobody agrees on
    2. Vol 2 Every Chambering, Documented What Remington actually offered, in which variant, in which years — and the three entries that do not survive checking
    3. Vol 3 The Action and the Hardware What it shares with the 40X, 600, 700 and Seven — and the two things that make a centre-grip gun different from every other Remington
    4. Vol 4 Ballistics as a Pistol What each chambering actually does from 10¾ and 14½ inches — and why most published XP-100 numbers are somebody else's barrel
    5. Vol 5 Caliber Selection by Task Silhouette, varmint, target and big game — argued from the numbers, with Michigan law and ammunition supply weighed explicitly
    6. Vol 6 Buying One Today Market reality, single-shot versus repeater, the inspection sequence, and what a fair price looks like
    7. Vol 7 Owning One Modifications, the optic problem, takedown, maintenance, storage and troubleshooting