#M1867 remington rolling block rifle license#
In the same year, Spain ordered 85,000 rifles and 10,000 carbines and also signed a license agreement to manufacture their own rolling block rifles. The Rolling Block was produced as a military full-stock musket target rifle buffalo gun and even as a shotgun. In fact legend has it that Custer was carrying his faithful Rolling Block at Little Big Horn. Egypt was the next Remington customer with an order of 60,000 rifles in 1869. The Remington Arms Company has a letter from George Armstrong Custer extolling the virtues of his Remington Rolling Block Sporting Rifle. 102,000 M186789 conversions were done 18891894 at Carl Gustafs Stads Gevarsfaktori (Carl Gustafs City Rifle Factory) in Eskilstuna. The companies, Husqvarna and Carl Gustav, are still around today. This bayonet is a conversion of the M1867 socket bayonet used with the 12.17 mm. They also negotiated license agreements to manufacture these weapons in their own countries: Sweden at the Husqvarna and Carl Gustav arsenals, Denmark at the Kobenhaven Tojhuis arsenal and Norway at Hoverdarsenalet and Konigsberg. Denmark bought 41,800 rifles and Sweden-Norway bought 10,000 rifles and 20,000 actions. Denmark and Sweden-Norway (Sweden and Norway were one country then) all adopted rifles with this design between 18.