The 8×58mmR Danish Krag, also known as the 8×58mmRD, is a late 19th-century rimmed centerfire military rifle cartridge similar to other early smokeless powder designs.
(Commission Internationale Permanente pour l'Epreuve des Armes à Feu Portatives) rulings for this cartridge (2017).
Sweden implemented a major arsenal rebuilding of their M1867 rifles for the 8×58mmR, and Norway experimentally compared 8×58mmR Remington rolling block conversions to the Jarmann M1884.
[6] Denmark modernized military loading of the 8×58mmR in 1908 using smokeless powder with spitzer bullets;[3] and Danish troops were still armed with the 8×58mmR when Germany invaded in 1940.
[1] Surplus military rifles have been used for hunting; and ammunition was manufactured in Otterup and by Norma Precision after World War II.