![]() ![]() The older Remington made rifles were not intended to be used with this later cartridge because of age and quality of steels, and were relegated to the Jutland region coastal reserve artillery units or civilian shooting clubs to be used with blackpowder only. Danish made copies were said to be rechambered for an updated smokeless cartridge in this period which was reserved for those rifles made in Denmark by the kjobenhavn Toihuus or Copenhagen Arsenal due to their finer quality steels. if t does have this, it may well have been rebarreled and was renamed the Model 1867/97 and intended strictly for blackpowder cartridges only in the 1890s. Check between your receiver ring and the rear sight for s crown. It does appear to be one of the original 42,000 rifles of the original Danish contract.
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