Art Eatman
Staff in Memoriam
Put a buttpad on the stock, got some brass, loaded up some plinkers. Walked outside to benchrest. Loaded five rounds into magazine.
There's nothing to push the cartridges "around the bend" so the bolt picks up the round to chamber it.
Should there be some sort of spring in that loading-gate cover? To push a follower? I have no book on the Krag, and I've made myself leave it alone until somebody tells me some obvious answer.
Thanks, Art
PS: Fired it single-shot; neat! 20 grains of 2400 behind a 170-grain RN. No recoil, low noise. Went Clang! on my 185-yard hanging plate, offhand.
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There's nothing to push the cartridges "around the bend" so the bolt picks up the round to chamber it.
Should there be some sort of spring in that loading-gate cover? To push a follower? I have no book on the Krag, and I've made myself leave it alone until somebody tells me some obvious answer.
Thanks, Art
PS: Fired it single-shot; neat! 20 grains of 2400 behind a 170-grain RN. No recoil, low noise. Went Clang! on my 185-yard hanging plate, offhand.
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