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After 70 years, a Danish Krag returns to life
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02-07-2015 02:40 PM
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Perhaps the lands are on the weak side and when the barrel started to heat from firing, it expanded...thus the keyhole...I've had it happen before. Maybe they're undersize...maybe too long... Not much info about the ammo to go on here.
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Possibly; the barrel is dark, worn, and pitted.
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That gives you a couple of things to look at. My 30-40 Krag is very mild to shoot as well. I'm loading a lead gas check bullet right now but had loaded jackets before. Both do OK because the barrel is good. My carbine on the other hand needs an oversize bullet, about a .311 or so to work at all. If you were loading you could fiddle around and probably come up OK with yours. Probably quite good actually...
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This is what happens when I leave paper around my office...
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Last edited by majspud; 02-07-2015 at 07:50 PM.
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Well, we've seen him before...could be worse, you could be finding rabbit raisins under your pillow...
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You might find some jacket fouling locked into the bore now. Could be it built up enough to squeeze those last bullets down enough that they weren't contacting the bore. I've done that with lead bullets in one of my US Krags that had a rough throat. I noticed the rounds were getting harder to chamber and pulled a large wad of lead out of the throat with a brush. The throat got polished with a stainless steel brush and it doesn't grab the bullet anymore.
Now I see lead bullets in your other post. Forget jacket fouling, lead sticking in the rough parts of the barrel, likely more in the throat than elsewhere.
Last edited by andiarisaka; 02-13-2015 at 12:19 PM.
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