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Krag bullet attracts bullet
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09-04-2011 07:54 PM
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Frankfurt Arsenal in 1900? The steel core thing I don't know. I wouldn't have thought they would have been doing that so early. The cracks are just lost life in the brass. Just old is all.
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Bullet attracts magnet
One thing I forgot to mention was that you could see a number of small marks on where the bullet enters the case. If it were a coin the marks would be called riling....
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That's the crimping cannelure. Not unusual. The bullet size sounds standard too.
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Could be a mild steel jacket with a cupro-nickle plating. See page 113 of Phil Sharpe's, "Complete Guide to Handloading". He there relates that out of a sealed box of 20 rounds, made in 1901 by Winchester, 16 had cupro-nickel jackets and 4 had steel jackets coated with cupro-nickle, which would of course, attract a magnet. He also states that Frankford Arsenal made 129,000,000 Krag cartridges with steel jacketed between 1894 and 1900. They were thinly plated with cupro-nickle, and most had tinned cases.
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