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by Zac952
Mon Jul 18, 2022 2:15 pm
Forum: Other Firearms
Topic: 1895 Winchester Lee destroyed
Replies: 4
Views: 1965

Re: 1895 Winchester Lee destroyed

The whole cannibalism of rifles to supply parts for other rifles restorations is truly destruction of history. With this going on with Krags especially it seems like one day the majority of Krags will be reassembled parts guns. Most of the time people have good intentions and plan to restore a once ...
by Zac952
Sat Jul 09, 2022 10:13 pm
Forum: U.S. Military Krags
Topic: Model 1896
Replies: 9
Views: 1866

Re: Model 1896

Wow 4 percent humidity! How have your stocks faired? It seems like much below 30 percent and I would think they would really start to dry out and crack.
by Zac952
Wed Jul 06, 2022 2:33 pm
Forum: Ammunition, reloading, shooting, etc
Topic: 7.5x55 Swiss Brass
Replies: 13
Views: 2739

Re: 7.5x55 Swiss Brass

Culpeper, if you haven't selected dies yet I'll give you the info I have on the dies. The Swiss 1889, 96/11, and 1911 all use the standard 7.5x55 die set, although the 1889 is a different case length and uses different load data the standard dies work. The K31 can be reloaded with the standard dies,...
by Zac952
Mon Jun 06, 2022 1:58 am
Forum: Sporterized and unofficial modified Krags
Topic: Advice on refinishing wood?
Replies: 38
Views: 6139

Re: Advice on refinishing wood?

Check out the 4 row carding wheels from brownells, they are great and you can rig them up on a cordless drill and zip tie the trigger and strap the drill to a table for a makeshift lathe of sorts. This is a method I helped a friend use at his place, I use an old 1947 shop smith lathe I acquired for ...
by Zac952
Mon Jun 06, 2022 12:39 am
Forum: Sporterized and unofficial modified Krags
Topic: Advice on refinishing wood?
Replies: 38
Views: 6139

Re: Advice on refinishing wood?

If your crack doesn't hold up here is what I have found to be a more durable repair. I chisel out a channel on the underside of the handguard that bridges both sides of the crack a eighth inch or so, then I fill it with black Acraglas gel. You use black as brown will stand out and black looks like g...
by Zac952
Tue May 10, 2022 1:37 pm
Forum: U.S. Military Krags
Topic: New to here! Looking for info on Krag
Replies: 5
Views: 1227

Re: New to here! Looking for info on Krag

Slings were fitted to 1899 Krag carbines for the engineers, as BR said, it was quite a small number like 200 or so but if you post a picture of the lower sling swivel and how well it is inletted in the stock that can prove whether it would be a candidate for being done in service, no way to prove it...
by Zac952
Tue May 10, 2022 2:27 am
Forum: Ammunition, reloading, shooting, etc
Topic: Powder??? Where's all the powder?
Replies: 19
Views: 3320

Re: Powder??? Where's all the powder?

Most of those places are scams and I wouldn't take the risk, I know for a fact optics and ammo is a scam website, although it comes up high on the Google search, a guy at a local gun store here got scammed by that website, it is generally odd when a new site has powder, primers, and all the other st...
by Zac952
Thu May 05, 2022 5:49 am
Forum: U.S. Military Krags
Topic: Replacement Front Sight
Replies: 8
Views: 1466

Re: Replacement Front Sight

If I recall correctly the 1896 sight and 1892 sight used a shorter blade height, it could be that someone swapped rear sights around sometime in your rifles past, at least depending on production date by the serial number it could have been an 1896 sight well they were gearing up to produce the 1901...
by Zac952
Mon May 02, 2022 8:56 pm
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Boiling, Bubba or not?
Replies: 10
Views: 2805

Re: Boiling, Bubba or not?

I agree with you BR on those krags, I very much loathe a hot blued high polished finish on any military rifle. I would take little to no finish over that. Alot of finishes are ruined by excessive brushing in a attempt to remove rust, boiling is a way to convert the rust without removing finish. It w...
by Zac952
Mon May 02, 2022 2:39 pm
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Boiling, Bubba or not?
Replies: 10
Views: 2805

Re: Boiling, Bubba or not?

Fred, I think there has been a misconception on boiling, it doesn't add color except where the rust is, and if it's light rust the color is almost non existent and grayish at most. For example here is an 1899 Krag reciever that was boiled, no chemical added to produce rust like in a standard rust bl...