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Schauckis
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Re: a dangerous game rifle from Denmark
      16/03/09 03:09 AM

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also the rifle for the legendary danish Sirius patrol from 1950-1955, maybe the last single shoot service rifle in a western army. Build on surplus danish krag actions for the old 11,4x53R Danish service cartridge. Of course the danish rolling block cartridge was obsolete but greenland had have large amounts of this and cheap was beautiful. I remember pics of selous game ranger in 2003 with greener police guns. The danish cartridge have a full metal jacket bullet and nitro load, very similar to the 45/70 gov., cartridge collector’s call them “Greenland cartridge”.
The rifle wasn’t made as a hunting rifle but as a cheap self defence gun against hungry polar bears.




Interesting.
Is this a derivative of the 7,62x53R also known as the 7,62x54R?
What is the bullet diameter in inches? 11,4mm suggests 0,449" - so something in the .44 or .45 league, in other words, but not quite .458.

Thinking of the 11,4mm bullet this would be pretty much the ultimate necking-up of that caliber, as per the .400 Whelen of the .30-06.

An interesting rifle, indeed!!

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