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Care and feeding of the Krag

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Drydock:
I use the Lee 200, melted chilled shot, unsized, cheapest gas checks I can find, crimped in the crimp groove.  2.5cc dipper Trail Boss and a WLR primer.  Slicker'n snot on a doorknob.  Hornday 220 and 40 grains IMR 4350 for a Milspec load that shoots to the sights.

Drydock:

--- Quote from: Drydock on February 18, 2015, 04:51:25 PM ---I use the Lee 200, melted chilled shot, unsized, cheapest gas checks I can find, crimped in the crimp groove.  2.5cc dipper Trail Boss and a WLR primer.  Slicker'n snot on a doorknob.  Hornday 220 and 40 grains IMR 4350 for a Milspec load that shoots to the sights.

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BTW, looks like a very nice M1896 with the M1898/02 tangent sight.  If that's an actual 1896, and not an 1898 in an earlier stock, it probably saw action.  We gonna get you up to speed fast on that one.

Niederlander:

--- Quote from: pony express on February 18, 2015, 04:44:47 PM ---Not sure what Drydock uses, but mine are a pointed bullet from a Lyman mould, I think they weigh in about 185gr. Made the mistake of trying some 165gr flat point 30-30 cast one time. Just ONE time. Those didn't agree with my '03 either. It's when you use the short bullets that you have to carefully place the rounds in the magazine one at a time to avoid rimlock. If they're long enough, you just dump a handful in the mag and close it, they align themselves fine.

One thing I like about the 220 grain Lyman I use........it works great in the '03 as well.  I cast mine from wheel weights and use Lee liquid Alox.  My gas checks are from Gator.
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CPL Jayhawker Jake:

--- Quote from: Drydock on February 18, 2015, 04:56:05 PM ---BTW, looks like a very nice M1896 with the M1898/01 tangent sight.  If that's an actual 1896, and not an 1898 in an earlier stock, it probably saw action.  We gonna get you up to speed fast on that one.

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It is a 1896, and if the site I've been using to date my surplus rifles is accurate, was made in 1896.  I think the sight is the M1902, as it has the slightly larger "bump" in the side, and has the small "peep" sight that can be clicked into position along with the notch.

Thanks for the load data, everybody.  I'm not quite up to the level of casting my own bullets yet, but I do plan on working up some loads for this soon.  Good to know that flat point bullets are a no-go, since I've been looking at some for both this and my '03 on Midway.

pony express:
It's not so much the flat point, but the overall length. I think a Krag would feed full wadcutters, if they were just long enough! I don't remember exactly what the flat point 30-30 bullets did in my '03, just that they didn't work well.

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