Nominally it had a caliber of 4 decimal lines, but the actual caliber was 3.88 Norwegian decimal lines or 4.1 Swedish decimal lines (12.17 mm), and it fired a rimfire round with a 12.615 mm (.497 in) lead bullet. The Remington M1867 was a rolling-block rifle, the first rifle using metallic cartridges to be adopted by the Norwegian and Swedish armies. Norway: M1867, M1888 and M1891 Carbine conversions About 5,000 of the rifles made in Sweden were delivered to Norway while the rest of the production was for Sweden Sweden: 237,000-257,000 rifles and carbines, including conversions of older rifles to rolling block. Norway: 53,450 rifles (of which 5,000 were later converted to carbines)
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