Norma made up some lower pressure loads, 8x57 moderat. In the 60s some of the imported rifles were rebarreled to .308 and .243. I got a couple of the .243 barrels off ebay. Sold one, got the other...
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Norma made up some lower pressure loads, 8x57 moderat. In the 60s some of the imported rifles were rebarreled to .308 and .243. I got a couple of the .243 barrels off ebay. Sold one, got the other...
I see I commented on this before, skipped that page earlier!
The thickness of the semi rim on most factory ammo is a bit on the thin side in my opinion. I make my own brass from .303 or 30-40 with a .060 semi-rim. If the case of factory ammo goes all the way...
A lot of times my rifle goes downrange with me. The range is in a state wildlife area with only a single lane road leading to it. The first few times I made the walk I realized that someone could...
Fire your BL-C(2) with a magnum primer, or a CCI#34, which is milspec primer for 7.62 Nato designed to fire ball powder. I've used a lot of ball powders in 30-06, they are hard to ignite compared to...
I've done that too. I had a .311 groove diameter barrel on the Krag I used. They were 173gr Russian steel jacketed bullets from Wolf Military Classic .303 British Ammo, the stuff with the delay...
I've been chasing a set of those old Weaver rings for a long time. I have a few of them, but not the ones for the Krag.
A good guy, his repairs are good too.
I bought an M1A in a stock like that once. Ugly brown if IRC. It wouldn't shoot worth squat, so the old guy gave me some money back so I could buy a new stock. I got a camo laminate. It shot...
I've shipped many scopes USPS Priority Mail, haven't lost one or had one damaged yet.
See if you can find a Townsend Whelen book, Days of the Krag. Here's a little PDF that Major Culver did, though I don't know if contains what you're looking for. ...
Thanks for pointing those out! I have a couple Arisakas that have been rechambered to 6.5x257. One of them would like a larger diameter bullet!
I'd ask the son you have that helps you with wood work to repair the handguard neatly. I mean put it back to 1902. It's so much easier to reach up and twist the knob in the direction you want POI...
I have this thing with vintage scopes. My recently acquired pogo-stick like carbine wears a Sears Ted Williams 1.5-4.5 variable with a standard duplex reticle. It was probably made in the mid to...
Bob Bell mentions the two wires in his book, "The Gun Digest Book of Scopes and Mounts". According to him, the horizontal wires on Weaver's version of the Rangefinder reticle were 6moa apart, if...
Not really enough difference to see, let me see what my calipers say. Well I can't get them where I need to without some disassembly. It's only a few thousandths. Ok, I took the sideplate off a...
One of mine in the 12000 range must've been someplace where it got real rusty. But you could tell it was an arsenal did the clean up, made the magazine a tad longer!
Makes a carry strap that can be pulled up nice and parade tight for display. The Krags that I remember in the American Legion back in the early 60s all had them. The repro I got, when they first...
There was someone on facebook who was questioning a 1901 cartouched 1896 not long ago. My guess would be they had some 96 receivers still in the system when the boss said in July 1898, "We're going...
I have read his memoirs. I thought I was buying a relatively rare book, but he must've paid his printer rather handsomely for many, many copies! Phil was originally from the next county north of...
Or, as many do now a days, a basis for building back to original. New full length barrels are available, and the forestock.
Digging around online about DDNP primers, I see that not only do they not produce enough pressure, they increase bore friction as compared to lead styphnate primers. ...
Now that I've had time to think about it, these rounds behaved just like some I'd loaded with DDNP primers, the old Wolf KVB-7E! I still have 4975 of those, won't ever use them for anything! I'll...
I shot some today, out of a rifle with a nice .310 groove diameter barrel. Ten went into 2.7x2.4" group at 100yds. With at least two, maybe three out of the ten shot for group giving what may have...
Maybe it's one of the rare Devine, TX put together Enfields! I let one of their M1As get away from me once! Oops, posted this joke from page 1, without seeing the actual mark, sorry guys.