Krag Collectors Association Forum

Prayers sent - get well Dick!

I know Joe Farmer compiled such a database some years back on the old Jouster forum. I don't know if he published it or not. I think he was using it to try and discern breakpoints between rifle and carbine production.

As Petrov's write up describes - the Krag has the single locking lug plus two safety lugs - the bolt guide rib and the bolt handle within the receiver mortise. Any rifle can fail but the Krag failure mechanism is one of the safer.

Butlers....<br /><br />You are absolutely correct in Ch. 1. The 1892 trials saw the offering of a clip system with the Krag. Norway had a clip and their trials were running nearly concurrent with the US. US ordnance at the time saw the clip as un-needed and expensive. They saw no need for it in a si...

I too am interested in the source. Do you own these photos in your private collection? If so, I'd like to talk with you about using them. Please PM.

Thanks!!!

My wife and I grew up in San Antonio. I still have family there. We spent our wedding night at the Menger.

I have lived in the Fort Worth area since 1989 (Aledo for the past 14 years). I grew up on the north side of SA but my dad grew up on a farm on the elmendorf-LaVernia road. The remainder of that property was just recently sold. My parents still live near Bulverde. Dad still has a lot of friends in t...

For Christmas my father gave me a Colt SAA that originally belonged to my GGG grandfather. This man was a Methodist circuit rider in South Texas in the 1850s. One of his sons was killed in an Indian raid near San Antonio in about 1859 and in grief, the family moved back to Tennessee. Along about 187...

What a find! I wonder if anyone outside his family knew what they had before you discovered it?

Cupronickel jacketing became a problem when velocities exceeded 2100 fps or so. Read some of Townsend Whelen's old articles on this. This was a major problem for the 1903 up until right after WW1. Ordnance figured out that adding a small amount of tin to the jacket alloy solved the metal fouling iss...