Krag Collectors Association Forum

Polar bears were hunted because of the valuable fur. Polar bear hunting was finally banned in 1973. This kind of hunting were usually not done from boats. The hunters would build cabins from rocks, turf and driftwood, and spend the winter hunting bears in that area. One of my grandfathers uncles spe...

More seal hunters.

Hunting expeditions in the arctic were once big business. Mostly from the mid 1800's and onwards. They hunted seals, walruss and polar bears. In the beginning they used sailing wessels and muzzle loaders and single shot BP rifles. The introduction of engines and Krags were a revolution for these men...

Then came the small bore, high power, smokeless Krag. The price was of course a lot higher than i.e. a rolling block, so many still used their older rifles, but eventually the Krag became totaly dominant in the woods or mountains. This photo from 1910 shows a family up in northern Norway. Most of No...

When the Krag was introduced in Norway in 1894, it soon would replace the range of older hunting rifles in use at the time. The range and accuracy simply outclassed the black powder rifles that were in use back then. I've been browsing some Norwegian internet archives and found some interesting peri...

The post is for the "emergency" sight setting in case a soldier should get hold of the old ammo. The rear sight is calibrated for the 139 grain spitzer boattail bullet adopted by the military in 1925. The old bullet was a 156 grain roundnose. The trajectories of the two cartridges meet at ...

Norwegian rule, max pressure is 3300 bar for the Krags. According to Raufoss 3500 bar is max pressure for the Krag. For Mauser (M98) and Sauer 3800 bar. This is an article from early 90's, published in the Norwegian shooting associations magazine. It's about freebore and chamber pressure. Written b...

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Yes, that's the old story. In 1990 when the scandinavian shooting organizations adopted the Sauer 200 STR as a standard target rifle, they remedied the difference by introducing the Skan chamber. It's dimentiones are between the Krag and the Mauser.

Sunshineboys: Here's Krag reloading data from the Norwegian reloaders manual.
Btw, your rifle isn't chambered in 6,5x55 Swedish (which is the Swedish version of the cartridge), but in 6,5x55 Krag or Norwegian. The Krag case is about .039 inches (0,1 mm) longer from the head to the neck.

It's definitely a Norwegian target sling of some sort, but unlike the normal models. There's some difference in the early models, as you can see here. https://digitaltmuseum.no/011024092371/gevaer https://digitaltmuseum.no/011024058435/gevaer https://digitaltmuseum.no/011024075125/gevaer https://www...