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Re: Krag Receiver Damage- What Happened?

Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:05 pm
by gew98
Being this is before nickel steel and proper heat treating I suppose this could have been a pierced primer event and it flowed and "blowed" into bolt body and caused the result. Class C steel Springfield 1903's with the same steel and poor heat treating suffered like catastrophic failures.