Krag Collectors Association Forum

I have found the side plate on the Krags is also the feed ramp for 220 grain bullet. There is a longer surface for the nose radius to glide forward to the chamber. And where the side plate and the receiver mate might not be flush to each other a spitzer bullet gets hung up because a point is not a radius. It is like it is digging into the crack. I have a some times hanging issue with my '96s and later models using the Sierra 175 match kings and not as much on the 1894s.

I am guessing a full metal jacket round nose bullet would give zero problems. It is also a guess that a soft point round nose bullet could hang on feeding due to where the side plate and receiver mate thanks to the exposed soft lead.

I solved my feeding problems by hitting the 175 SMKs with a hammer and bending the points to one side.

With Sierra Match Kings? You mean a Krag in .30/40. Have you put your load with modified bullets on target? The OP was writing about one of those pistol things. What about those round-nosed bullets for the .30/30?