Diemaco
Diemaco was a Canadian defence company based in Kitchener, Ontario
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5.56×45mm NATO
The 5.56×45mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 5.56 NATO, but often pronounced "five-five-six") is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge family developed in the late 1970s in Belgium by FN Herstal. It consists of the SS109, L110, an ...
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The C11 target model rifle is a competition weapon used by members of the Royal Canadian Army Cadets for training and
target shooting
Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms ( firearms and airguns, in forms su ...
competition. It is based on the 5.56mm Anschütz Model 6522.
The C11 rifle is a 5.56-millimetre calibre, heavy fully floating barrel, manually operated,
bolt-action
Bolt-action is a type of manual firearm action that is operated by ''directly'' manipulating the bolt via a bolt handle, which is most commonly placed on the right-hand side of the weapon (as most users are right-handed).
Most bolt-action ...
, hand-fed, single-shot, competition weapon that fires
5.56×45mm NATO
The 5.56×45mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 5.56 NATO, but often pronounced "five-five-six") is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge family developed in the late 1970s in Belgium by FN Herstal. It consists of the SS109, L110, an ...
ammunition. The round is identical to that which is used in the C7, C8 and the C9 and as such will have similar ballistics. It has no applied safety and is fitted with RPA Vernier scaled aperture sights.