Krag Collectors Association Forum

Mark, I guess you are saying that the bolt partially rotated 'open'? Was part of the 'flange' on the bolt-head 'missing', before your Krag Bolt Incident? Not rotated at all. I was saying the if it had been an 1898 receiver, without the metal recess the bolt handle closes into on an 1892 or 1896 rec...

things may have been worse, the bolt handle came up against the "shroud" around the bolt on the 1896 receiver. Primers were not flattened.

You have my email adress, please re-send your snail mail address and I will send you the bolt.

I have a bolt body with the solid rib. The lug is Cracked. If anyone wants it for display or any reason, other than actual use in a rifle, it let me know. If I don't hear from anyone in a week or so it will get tossed.

Ned Butts wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:50 pm So what load did you use Mark, your own recipe or factory?

I think it was something boring. My load, of course, 40 grains of 4350 under a 220gr. round nosed corelokt or hornady.

October 2022 I was given an 1899 barreled action. Charles McArthur repaired the original 1901 carbine site for me. I am grateful.

Yesterday I toock this buck with it. I got the stock with 1899 Catouche off of Ebay. The shot was about 70 yards. The buck went down and never moved.

I have several Krags with perfectly fine bores that shoot perfectly well and would hold their own (with a good marksman) in any vintage rifle match.

My first Krag would spray, and I DO MEAN SPRAY jacketed bullets all oover a 24 X 36 inch sheet at 50 yards. I went to .312 cast and the rifle was shooting close to 1" groups at 100 yards. True Story. The barrel was fine. Not that I am recommending it, because I am not, but that rifle would shoo...

1892's are out there but rare. A collector friend hooked me up with a bobbed but unconverted 1892 rifle. Bobbed as in the forestock had been cut off. I repaired the rifle. The 1892 cleaning rod I purchased from another collector friend cost me about half what I got the rifle for at auction. If ever ...