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Madsen M47

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The Madsen Lightweight Military Rifle Model 1947, known as the M47, is a Danish bolt-action rifle designed by Compagnie Madsen in 1947 and built by Dansk Industri Syndikat, intended to be chambered for a wide range of contemporary military cartridges and marketed from 1951 onward chiefly to countries that could not afford newer semi-automatic rifles; it is regarded as the last bolt-action rifle designed with the intention of general infantry issue. Chambered for .30-06 Springfield, it weighs 8.5 pounds, measures 43 inches overall with a 23.4 inch barrel, and loads via a 5-round stripper clip into an internal box magazine, but abundant war-surplus weapons and the rapid postwar adoption of self-loading rifles meant only about 6,000 were built, used chiefly by Denmark and Colombia. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Weapon Class
small arm 1
Introduced Year
1958 1
Classification
Caliber
.30-06 Springfield 1
Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category)
Small Arm 1
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Madsen M47
  • caliber:30-06-springfield
    Chambered for .30-06 Springfield, it weighs 8
  • Infobox, production_date field
    Infobox production_date field: 1958
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Wikidata: Madsen M47
Wikidata Q16574902, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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