Krag Collectors Association Forum

Never seen the 303 conversion device, sounds practical. A 303 cartridge does fit into a 30/40 chamber. Even if the extended barrel is tight, opening up a worn out 30/40 barrel could not be too hard. Try it out, if it works make permanent with epoxy or Loctite.

My dad liked shooting 110 grain round nose and 100 grain plinkers in his 1917 Enfield. He used that same canister of Unique (20 grains for the 30-06) that I just finished. He reported the gun barely jumped, it made a sharper report like a pistol but with less blast. Both bullets expanded well on our...

<r>Right now we are thinking that peculiar circumstances led to the extreme effort to resize and annealing the shoulder to solve the problem. The new press and segregating your brass may make it a non problem.<br />Now we have a theoretical quandary on did the shoulder length change with #213000. I ...

Any chance the drawing is for proposed changes that never made it into production? The radius on the outside is not on my barrels. I made a detailed drawing with lengths and diameters that was sent to Pacnor for making my barrel. The taper ended where the parallel 1 inch diameter started.<br />Looki...

BR,<br /> Can you clarify which is the old and which is the new chamber. It looks like the top one is showing a recess for the rim. All the 1898s (total of 3) that I have seen are later than the 213000. They do not have the rim recess. Did early have the recess? If so the late bolts will not fit in ...

Any chance the rifle has some kind of improved chamber, with correct rim thickness and a deepened chamber?
On firing the shoulder blows out a bunch and you have to move it way back to fit the sporter?
Not sure if there were any Ackley improved reamers for 30/40. Maybe some kind of wild cat?

Typing while trying to think sometimes causes wrong things to come out, whoops. I have seen those colors past the shoulder. I wonder if they represent a full anneal on the shoulder as the material is heavier there and may not have been exposed to heat as long.<br />As Parashooter mentioned, I though...

Any chance the sizing die or shell holder is deforming the rim? Could you chamber the brass again before resizing? If you can rechamber the fired case after firing but not after resizing I think your die or shell holder are to blame.<br /><br />When I annealed my cases after forming them to 35 calib...

A question here, in another thread there was a way too tall front site. My thought was that besides correction, maybe it was made to file to size for the perfect aim? Seems like setting your original front sight aside and getting one of those would be a good solution to correct the aim.<br /><br />h...

No visible damage to the eye, it was stuck in her lower eyelid. Probably in there for a couple of weeks. I spray them for flies ever 2 weeks during the summer. Could not pull it out by hand it took the vice grips. Brangus cattle are 3/8 brahma so they are fairly resistant to our climate and diseases...