try now.  I think you need one post to be able to post pics.

No go, it takes all comments , distorts them, and slaps an enormous photo over everything.
Oh well. Nothing in help section.

Will try photobucket route.

Went to photobucket

I had one of these some years ago. I fully annealed 45/70 brass and fire-formed it to the chamber. After that, I neck sized only. It was used in the club black powder cartridge off-hand competition and won it several times, but I always had difficulty with the extreme drop on the stock and eventually sold it. As always when you sell something good, I wish I still had it now!

I have one too. Previous owner could not get it to shoot accurate. Twist on mine is twenty nine inches. To slow to stabilize heavy bullets. Shoots short bullets excellent. I used 45-70 brass. Don't remember if I trimmed it. Think I must have.  Won one musket match with it, only match I ever used it for. Shot a perfect 50 on the old 5V target. Rifle has a extra heavy trigger pull.

Base size of the 45-70 cases are a bit small for my rifle. Sits in the gun rack. Shot straight BP in mine. Have about fifty original cases but take Berdan primers. 

             Joe.

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Making a flat spring would be repeating what your Roller has now. The piano wire spring shown gives a much nicer, and lighter trigger pull.

Might be my old eyes but your pic has led me to ask this question.  In looking at the breech block just where the hammer sits when fired is that a crack in the block?. See sort of a black line just above the hammer. Frank

Singleshotlover wrote on Feb 20^th, 2016 at 12:31am:

 
What you are seeing is the firing pin retractor.  When you drop the block it rides
under the hammer and cams the firing pin back.

Just did a chamber cast, Cerrosafe. I have read to wait one hour before measuring it. Never done such a thing, but it was easy. Modeling clay in extractor groove removal was not even that bad.

Sitting here watching the clock.

Assume mine had a reversible firing pin. Not now. As the breech block is rotated back firing pin is forced to retracted. Good safety feature. 

As for springs, I prefer flat springs to music wire. My Danish is a favorite plinker rifle. 

           Joe.

I have one, use 45-70 brass, Lee 405 bullets 20:1, 60gr ff compressed with a .030 wad on top. Shoots very well.

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Very nice!

I will check in the morning, but I could swear it is 6 groove. I have made easy math errors before though.

I have 2 micrometers, one is a nice Lyman. Will recheck in the am.

I measure this way. Close enough for me. 



          Joe.

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The major issue with using .45-70 brass in the Danish RB's is that the diameter of the chamber near the base is approximately .012" larger than a .45-70 chamber.  Most of the time, this is not a problem but you want to be alert to swelling of the brass directly ahead of the web.   

I had one just like yours quite a few years ago and was told that the importer "improved" a very large batch of Danish RB's by touching up the chamber with a .45-70 reamer.  My rifle was pretty, but not particularly accurate.

JackHughs

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.