1899 Carbine 348xxx

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Finally got to shoot. I knew I remembered some kind of round-nose in the multi-generational family ammo heap, but the rounds I was thinking of turned out to be 6.5x55. It's a big heap, tho, and in the back of a drawer I found exactly two rounds of .30 Army.



Looked from google like that headstamp was between 90-110 years old so I kept looking. Fortunately a buddy came up with half a box of Corelokts. I fired five rounds, one at 15 to make sure I was on the paper, and four more at 50. i made a windage adjustment, guess I should've just shot to group, but I think it's likely going to end up being a pretty accurate little carbine. More accurate than my eyes and that skinny little bare metal front sight blade can do, anyway. Last two were side by side above the bull.



This was my first time shooting any Krag, and the action really does feel great. Fed very smoothly from the magazine. Only issue was that ejection wasn't very convincing, brass just dribbled out of the side unless I really pulled the bolt back sharply and even then didn't go far. One of these days I'll look at the ejector and spring and see what's up. I'm happy with it tho.