Krag Collectors Association Forum

Those fake silver dollars have been around for a long time. I was told they originally came out of latvia. Leave it to the chinese to copy something. They are usually in a plastic case that is hard to open and not easy to weigh. Of coarse if you accidentally drop one on a hard surface it will not &q...

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Is there anyway to keep these "bots" out of the forum? They make me wonder if they are just mining for info on the forum members. Another theory is that jeff bizos has his minions looking at this sight to get info on Krag rifles to start making them again! Thats probably a stretch. I do li...

It looks like it might have a Kerr no buckle sling on it.

When i lived out west the locals called those critters "slow elk".

This article was posted on another collectors forum. I thought it was pretty interesting. If there are any Krag Phillipine constabulary rifles to be found they would probably be in one of the stacks of weapons in the article. The condition of those rifles might be questionable! https://gunsmagazine....

With the 178gr. bullets i was using some older hercules 2400. The 220gr. N.O.E. bullets were loaded with IMR 4198. The 178gr. rounds averaged 1940 fps. The 220gr. rounds had an average of 1720 fps.

My last trip to the range was not very good. It was so bad i did not take pics of the "patterns". After working on some new loads things are looking up. Not great groups but way better than the last outing. With N.O.E. 220 gr. cast plain base bullets had acceptable groups at 50 yards. The ...

I would not be getting rid of any reloading manuals or important reference papers and relying on a chinese "smart" phone to give you answers. If they have a way of pulling the plug on a smart phone most people around here would not know how to crack an egg to make breakfast. File cabinets ...

Reloading for that is going to be a royal pain in the backyard.