The swelling Jack speaks of scared me when using my rifle. One of the reasons it sits in the rack. Should arta get some 348 brass and make some smoke with it. 

            Joe.

My Danish Remington is 1879 vintage with excellent bore. Many of these rifles show up looking as if they were unfired inside. The 45-70 Starline brass will work. Most of these rifles were converted to the longer cased 11.7x56. These guys are not exaggerating about the accuracy. Mine had a .464 grove diameter. The Lee hollow base 45 bullet measured .462 and worked great for me. Get her going-we are only this way once!!!

I have one also. Mine has a perfect bore and is in excellent condition. The barrel on mine has no bayonet lug and appears to have never had one.

Frank. the block on these rifles have a feature that retracts the firing pin when the block is rolled back. 
Bill

Shame on me if I double posted. Most of the Danish RB's had been rechambered to 11.7x56R. These rifles had some work done on them to chamber a 45-70 case here. With this rifle ,with a .464 grove diameter, limited the bullet choices. I made up some Lee 400gr. Hollow base bullets. These bullets measured .462 as cast out of pure lead.  On the first batch Lee liquid lube was used. On the next batch the bullets were lubed by hand with SPG. These most recent bullets were fired with black powder. For smokeless I used Trap Door data. I have not had any problems with Starline brass when forming the cases. I have a set of C&H dies plus some 11.7x51R Huntington brass. The most recent BP loads gave excellent accuracy with the original sights. The point of impact was way high-not unusual for rifles of that vintage. I plain on neck sizing this brass.  Incidentally, the firing pin in these rifles and be flipped so the old rimfire cartridges can be fired. My rifle does not have the bayonet lug. Evidently, a number of these rifles turn up with no lug. To date, I have not been able to find whey the lug was omitted on some rifles. Good shooting.

J. G. Terry,

Presuming that a "museum employee" from the UK who answered that query wasn't just blathering about nothing, the rifles that were "reformatted" in the 1888-1895 period for the Danish National Foresters had the military sights replaced with "more appropriate" civilian sights & the bayonet lug machined off. - Evidently the National Foresters were like our modern Game Wardens.

yours, satx

My Danish Roller was so "converted" to .45-70.  It is very accurate with 405g hollow based bullets & black powder.  Fired cases come out fine.