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todd

Well-Known Member
should've kept my mouth shut. but noooooo i says. i have to buy it just because..........not that i needed another piece of junk that needs fixing. i still have to do my 93 mauser barrel!!!!! not to mention the 93 and 95 Mauser's and the krag actions???
don't i already have enuff?

my guess is no.


my......ah, "friend" HAD a 1898 spr armory in 30-40 krag (notice the quotation marks and HAD) that he wants to sell. he got it from his grandfather who died quite a few years ago. my "friend" hunts when he can, but work takes him all over the country. anyway, he told me to expect a beat up rifle and that would need loving care. alot of loving care. so what do i say? BRING IT TO ME!!!!!!!!!! well....he did and he walked away $125 richer.

the stock work needs refinished, the surface rust on the rifle needs a whole lota vinegar or evaporust. trigger guard, lower band, swing swivel and the butt plate needs a bath also. the interior barrel looks like it needs a cleaning too. the rifle came with no sights. i haven't taken it apart, other than the bolt isn't cracked and the cartridges feeds nicely. and the trigger is a 2 stage man's dream. you take up the "slop" of the trigger and then its 4 or 5 lbs till you hear the firing pin is released. ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the insides are "clean", meaning rust free. the bolt is as smooth as it ever was.

should i have bought? of course not!!!! anybody else would throw it in the scrap pile. but not me!!!! i'll give her love and maybe someday, she'll give it back.

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JimE

New Member
Nice! I really like my 1894 Krag. Mine came “sporterized” with sporter stock, scope mount,d&t receiver and a stovepipe for a barrel. I always wanted one because of its historical significance between the trapdoors and the 1903 Springfields and that super smooth action. I sent it to CMP when they first started working on customer’s guns. A
CMP gunsmith screwed in a new Criterion barrel and Boyd’s sent me a “carbine” stock blank and now I have a historically worthless but beautiful shooter. I haven’t shot a jacketed bullet through it yet and don’t intend to. I like to load it with 16grs
of 2400 and almost any bullet that will feed, ringing steel with regularity on my home range. I really like to shoot this one!
I hope you enjoy yours as much as I have.
 

Ian

Notorious member
JimE was kind enough to let me waste some of his cast bullet handloads with his 1894 and it is a fine and fun shooter indeed. Despite all the changes made to it, the final result looks quite homogenous and "correct" for a period sporter.
 

todd

Well-Known Member
i have two 1898 spr armory actions. they'll be built in a 22 hornet and a 405 jes. i'm "thinking" of building the 30-40 krag to a 9.3/30-40 krag. i did the 9.3 krag brass by simply taking a 30-40 krag brass and putting into a 9.3x57 hornady fl die(put in about 1/3 way to neck, pull out, turn the case, out in about 2/3 way....), oh yes, i lubed the neck with lanolin(don't have the imperial sizing wax) and waa laa, a 9.3/30-40 krag brass. i also used the 9.3x57 hornady seating die to get a 280gr rn gc. yes, i use a lee universal neck expanding die first. it took a little bit of work, but i can neck size the 9.3 krag with the 9.3x57 die. also the 9.3 krag crimps the boolit.

i'm going to either jes reboring(i have to call him) or my gunsmith to re-barrel it. but this is still in the planning stage.