ItВґs simply called 'History of Arms' and is still considered to be the most accurate and well made in this field here in Sweden. I have a book written by a swede, Josef Alm, in 1927. I have some information regarding the introduction and so on about the Remington in the swedish army. I also took a look at the M1867 Rolling block. I have looked at your homepage and it looks realy good. Hope you found the information interesting. i can look it up in another book if you like. i believe it used the same cartridge as the remington. I would also like to mention that the krag-petersson rifle was adopted for use by the norwegian navy late 1870 i think. many rifles was then converted for center fire cartridges. many remingtons were however sold from the army, when no longer needed. if my memory serves me right, many of the m1860 breech loaders were modified to the m1860/67 lund there.ДЄnd last, a modification of the remington to accept center-fire cartridges is not mentioned in the book. guns marked with crowned a is probably repaired or modified by hovedarsenalet. many experimental guns have been made there however. To my knowledge, no guns have been manufactured by hovedarsenalet. again, my knowledge of the swedish gun is negligible. the single screw and cross pin was however adopted already in 1868, before many guns were made. The locking arangement of the breech block and hammer pivot pins was at first two locking screws, as pointed out. 5000 remingtons were purchased from sweden, manufatured at husquarna. kongsberg vapenfabrikk had to be modernised before mass production of remingtons could be started, so relatively few remingtons were made during the first years. wether the first swedish remingtons were built on remington manufactured receivers, i dont know. a royalty was paid in 1870 for using the system. there is no mention of this in the book, i do however assume that the guns used for testing prior to the adoption in 1867 could have been manufactured by remington. On your site, you say that the first remingtons were built in norway on reminton manufactured receivers. some of the features of the swedish remington was however adopted by the norwegians. after the rifle was adopted in 1867, as suggested by a joint norwegian swedish rifle board, it is my impression that the norwegian and swedish remingtons evolved (can i use evolve about guns?) independently of the other. i am by no means an expert on norwegian rifles, i do however have a book from the norwegain army museum, which focuses on the norwegian remington.ДЇirst of all, norway was in union with sweden, but the two coutries had more or less separate armies. If you dont mind, i have a few comments on the norwegian swedish rifle section. MISC NOTES: I received the wonderful two letters from a visitors to the site:ДЇrom: you for a very nice site, that has taken hours of my quality sleep time :) Also see above for additional distinguishing charecteristics. 50 cal) is quite long and the nose of the stock is not capped, but cut off square and flat, being protected by the upper barrel retaining band at the very end of the fore stock. The rifle chambers a 12.17mm cartridge (about. See the link to more photos below for a view of an unaltered Norwegian rifle and other M1867 Rolling block rifles.ДISTINGUISHING CHARECTERISTICS: The breech block and hammer pins are retained with a retaining screw each. Its sights are graduated in alen rather than meters or yards.

This particular rifle is a very early Swedish built one with iron furniture and iron buttplate. PHOTO: The rifle shown is a typical M1867 Norway-Swedish rolling block. The separate locking arrangement for the breech block and hammer pivot pins is a highly distinctive charecteristic of this rifle although models of Norwegian M1867s built on Remington receivers, as well as some of the Norwegian built rifles, are also found with the 'button plate' retainer and single, centrally mounted screw found on most typical Remington rolling block rifles. The rifle is long compared to other rolling blocks, measuring over 55 inches overall. The Norwegian rifles typically sport brass buttplates, the early Swedish, iron buttplates. Rrifles were built in Norway (Kongsberg Vapenfabrikk, (Crowned K) Hovedarsenalet (Crowned A), Christiana) and Sweden (Husquvarna Vapenfabrikk ).

GENERALLY: The M1867 Norway-Swedish Remington Rolling Block rifle is a fairly standard Remington rifle which was originally chambered for the 12.17mm copper cased rimfire cartridge.

Remington rolling block rifle 1870