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[mannparks]

Practice Practice practice.

Impressive with a capital I

Charles

[madsenshooter]

Hmm, I have one bolt body that has had the handle lengthened and lowered enough that I can use his technique. Never thought to try it before, but it works pretty good. Let me see how it does in the parkerized Krag, it has the best trigger of the bunch. Works pretty good, you gotta be careful with the trigger, but one would get better at it with practice. Now, if I can just find that old shooting mitt, and some velcro to fasten the charger to the back of the mitt. Then I could open the trap, reach a bit further forward and get the charger.....then I'd be set, except for tickets and directions to this race. Looks like a good event for one of Bob S's hopped up K31s.

[Shooter5]

One thing struck me immediately - which I've never seen mentioned before - is that they apparently never let go of the bolt, and pull the trigger with another finger. The Krag shooter sure is smooth with that charger - of course the rimless round takes a bit of the uncertainty out of the drop-in process - but VERY impressive, nonetheless.

I seem to recall somewhere/someone/some reference stating that this technique was what the Brits used/were taught circa WW1 era and is what allowed them to obtain such high rates of fire with the SMLE. Anyone hear of same or know of a reference?

[ranger66]

One thing struck me immediately - which I've never seen mentioned before - is that they apparently never let go of the bolt, and pull the trigger with another finger. The Krag shooter sure is smooth with that charger - of course the rimless round takes a bit of the uncertainty out of the drop-in process - but VERY impressive, nonetheless.

This is how volleyshooting has been done I Norway for the last 100 years. The speed shooting discipline is called "stangskyting". If you search for that in Youtube, you will find several examples.

[ranger66]

In norway, Kongsberg produced a speedloader for the civillian marked. This model is still in use. http://www.kvf.no/vaapen.php?type=Ut...eaponid=UT0029

[Pentz]

Thanks for tease, ranger66. How about sending a few hundred over to this side of the pond? Are they commonly available?
Found this whilst surfing...http://forums.thecmp.org/showthread.php?t=86258&page=2

[ranger66]

Thanks for tease, ranger66. How about sending a few hundred over to this side of the pond? Are they commonly available?
Found this whilst surfing...http://forums.thecmp.org/showthread.php?t=86258&page=2

Interesting, those pictures indicates that a Norwegian speedloader can be used with 30-40 krag cartridges. Yes they are for sale now and then. I just found this on qxl, but the auction has ended. http://www.qxl.no/pris/samleobjekter...v/an802325242/

[ranger66]

But as I see it, this can be fixed in several ways without too much mechanical skills. in this video http://youtu.be/pK8fSVuxVaU both the Krag and Mauser shooter uses the same speed loader, which is currently in production. It's made for the Mauser, but Staxrud, the Krag shooter, has adapted it for the Krag. He says it's quite easy, since it's made of plastic.
I would also think it should be possible to adapt a Lee-Enfield strpper clip for the Krag. I presume this stripper clip can hold 30-40 krag cartridges. It should be possible to lengthen the outside and mybe back og this clip by soldering on some sheet metal. If it is lenthened this way, to the total length of 6 cartridges, it should be possible to use it in a Krag.

[Bob S]

Parashooter's design will work with both US 30-40 Krags, and Norwegian 6.5x55:





Resp'y,
Bob S.

[madsenshooter]

The spring and follower are just unnecessary mechanical complication in my opinion. I'd much rather use my finger. For more detailed direction for parashooters chargers, see post 20 here: http://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=8807&page=2