Krag Collectors Association Forum

'03collector' - Thanks for posting your interesting recollections on a couple of known Parkhurst Krags and the wonderful pictures of your Parkhurst 'clip'. It appears, Mr. Parkhurst designed his 'device' to compress one of the 'arched springs' built into the 'clip', thus unlocking the tab that retai...

I agree with Richard H., a Parkhurst "clip" would be a major part of the story. It might be worth a call to David B. Stewart, (Granpa's Gun Parts), to see if Joe DeChristopher left a Parkhurst - Clip or two, laying around! Maybe an 'enginerd-type' can produce some clips, with a 3D - Printe...

I never really considered .... Michigan is being 'groped' by Canada!

Your recollections and observations are very interesting, Mark. It seems significant, that the failure may have been occurring over a series of several shots, and may have 'forewarned', with an increase in bolt stickiness and effort. It sounds like, the 'fired cartridge' case-heads and Krag rifle ex...

Mark, not to worry, Mr. Krag and Mr. Jorgensen were looking out for you. Even with the machining simplification,, introduced with the U.S. model 1898 Krag receiver, there was a lot of receiver metal to support the bolt guide-rib and the root of the bolt-handle, if they had to serve as 'safety-lugs'....

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?

Mark's 1892 bolt (2023 & 2024) contrast:

The late Michael Petrov conducted 'destructive tests' of a U.S. Krag action which were rather remarkable. His 'test action' had the bolt's 'locking-lug' entirely removed! The guide-rib/'safety lug', alone, bore the force of some grossly powerful abusive loads. IIRC - The barrel threads eventually st...

Mark reports that the early bolt came with a barreled action he purchased. He used the rig to shoot mild cast-cast bullet loads, with good results. The cracked lug developed after firing a few 220 grain 'jacketed' loads, (using data from the Speer manual), for IMR-4350. FWIW - (I suspect the cracks ...

Historic guns often pose a dilemma. This one is an interesting GEM! Tom's Parkhurst carbine is a wonderful enigma and time capsule, but at some point of time, a very harsh and poorly executed 'refinish' was done to the stock. I regard this as a serious and distracting 'blemish' and obviously prefer ...