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Remington Model 121 Fieldmaster

type of rifle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2024
Entity authorityQ7311837 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Fieldmaster 121 series is a .22 caliber, slide action, tubular magazine-fed rifle manufactured by Remington Arms between 1936 and 1954.

The Sportmaster 121 has a 25" barrel, a one piece hardwood stock, and a blued metal finish. It was replaced by the Model 572 Fieldmaster in 1955.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Remington Model 121 Fieldmaster” is type of rifle. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Remington, Model and Fieldmaster, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936, 1954, 1955—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Remington, Model and Fieldmaster is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Remington Model 121 Fieldmaster” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.