8×58mmR

8×58mmR
Type Military rifle cartridge[1]
Place of origin  Denmark
Service history
In service 1889-1945[1]
Used by Denmark
Norway
Sweden[1]
Wars World War II[1]
Production history
Designed 1888[1]
Specifications
Case type Rimmed, bottleneck[1]
Bullet diameter 8 mm (0.31 in)
Rim diameter 14.6 mm (0.57 in)
Case length 58 mm (2.3 in)
Ballistic performance
Bullet weight/type Velocity Energy
227[2] RN[2]
196[3] spitzer[2] 2530[3]

The Danish 8×58mmR is a late 19th-century rimmed centerfire military rifle cartridge similar to other early smokeless powder designs. It was briefly adopted by Norway and Sweden and remained the standard Danish service rifle cartridge from 1889 until 1945.[1]

Military history

The cartridge was developed in Denmark in 1888 using round-nosed bullets with 4 grams (62 gr) of gunpowder, and adopted the following year by Denmark in the Krag–Jørgensen rifle. Sweden implemented a major arsenal rebuilding of Remington Rolling Block rifles for the 8×58mmR, and Norway experimentally compared 8×58mmR Remington Rolling Block conversions to the Jarmann M1884.[2] Its service in Sweden was very brief, though, since the 6.5×55mm was developed by Sweden and Norway in 1891, formally approved in 1893, and entered service in the Norwegian Krag–Jørgensen rifle in 1894, and in the Swedish Mauser carbine in 1894 and rifle in 1896.[4] Denmark modernized military loading of the 8×58mmR in 1908 using smokeless powder with spitzer bullets;[2] and Danish troops were still armed with the 8×58mmR when Germany invaded in 1940.[1]

Sporting use

Surplus military rifles have been used for hunting; and ammunition was manufactured in Otterup and by Norma Precision after World War II. Documentation is scarce for the design pressure specifications of these surplus firearms. Although modern weapons may have been designed for smokeless powder loadings, their similarity to arms designed for gunpowder loadings causes uncertainty about the safety of firing modern cartridges in weapons lacking proof test documentation.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Danish 8x58R" (PDF). Ammunition Pages. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Burgett, Galen R. "Historical and Experimental Investigations of the Pressure Characteristics of the 8x58 Rimmed Danish Cartridge". Retrieved 28 November 2013.
  3. 1 2 Johnson, Melvin M., Jr. (1944). Rifles and Machine Guns. New York: William Morrow & Company. p. 384.
  4. ↑ Carsten Schinke - Die leichten schwedischen Infanteriegewehre Armee und Heimwehr - Journal-Verlag Schwend GmbH - 1990
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