Jarmann M1884

The Jarmann M1884 was a Norwegian bolt-action repeating rifle designed in 1878 by the engineer Jacob Smith Jarmann and adopted in 1884. It fired the 10.15 x 61R cartridge, originally a black powder round and later loaded with smokeless powder, from an eight-round tubular magazine under the barrel. Its non-rotating bolt was locked only by the rotating bolt handle, and it had no separate ejector. A joint Norwegian and Swedish rifle commission selected it, and it turned the Norwegian Army from a force with single-shot black powder weapons into one with repeating rifles. About 30,000 were made for Norwegian forces between 1884 and the adoption of the Krag-Jorgensen in 1894, with a further 1,500 built for the Swedish Navy. It was phased out within a decade, though second-line units were reissued it in 1905, and many surplus rifles were later rebuilt as M28 harpoon guns.