krag stock and 98 mauser scoped

I do like the walnut on a military rifle. Just looks right ! Wood turned out nice.
That receiver sight would be a fine hunting rig.

yep, its still a 30-40 and it shoots great!!!!! ask the deer??? oh, wait a minute....


i have four 1898 springfield armory, 2 actions without bolts and 2 sporterized. the one rifle(shown) used to be my great grandpap rifle(and grandpap, dad, late uncle). i'll never get rid of her. when i'm gone, then one of my sons will have that honor. the other three will be a 22 hornet, 257 krag(or krag ai) and a 9.3 krag, if i can stop buying the mausers!!!!!!!

oh crap!!! i forgot about that one!!!!! i guess i'll have to buy another one.

Yup ! That's the way I see it too. You have no choice !

Tod this is for you. An 1898 Krag 22 hornet. Notice the set triggers. I have never seen another Krag with set triggers. The targets were fired today at 100 yards with three different loads. The five shot target was first so one was from a cold clean barrel. The load for that target was with the NEI #2 bullet at 48 gn on 12gn of Lil-Gun and a CCI # 550 SRM primer.
The target with ten shots was with five shots each of two different loads. The load that shot three low of the bull was with the CBE 55gn on 8.1gn of H-110 and a WW- wsr primer.
The vertical stringing of that load I attribute to the H-110 powder being loaded to less than its optimal chamber pressure. This is typical of H-110 when loaded to less than optimum pressure. The cure might be a wee bit more powder or a magnum primer or both.
The five shots that are all in the bull were with the CBE 55gn on 12.2gn Lil-Gun and a CCI 550 primer. This is a darn good shooting rifle. If I said the purpose of this was not to make you envious I might be lying.
Now to get Tina to post the pictures.

you are right, i am envious!!!!!!!

That is a fine looking rifle for squirrels and such ! I have looked at alot of Krags and those set triggers are also the first I have seen ! Any information who made them / installed them ?

I have had a bunch of hornet rifles and most wouldn't do as well as this one but some did. I remember two that were very good one an early CZ in the Euro Lux model and one a TC Aristocrat.
This rifle has the 1/16" rifling twist rate that was pretty much standard in depression era hornet rifles. Even so as you can see it shoots the 55 grain CBE bullet design quite well something the experts say it will not do. The reason is bullet density and that a cast bullet will have more weight in a similar design and length of a jacketed bullet because of its homogenous density over the dual density of a jacketed bullet. In short with a cast bullet you can get more weight in a shorter package and it is length not weight that will determine the required rotational velocity for in flight stability .
I obviously like guns and shooting but my passion is for unique guns and this one is. I have several others like the Trap Door recently acquired and the Sulphur River Sharp. I imagine some day when my estate is being distributed to family that these unique guns will in a way define who I was.

my favorite rifle has to be a winchester m94(1972) in 35/30-30. i sent it to JES Reboring and he did an awesome job!!! i retired the 30-30 some 25+ years ago to do other rifles. i heard about the 35/30-30 about 5 - 6 years ago, but i didn't have the money (or rather i spent it on on rifles)to give to jesse. then two(or was it 3) years ago, i had the money to send it to jesse. he sent it back and instantly i fell in love(again) with the 35/30-30. the sintered steel action looks like a dog peed on it, but it is mine.




coming in at #2 is a husqvarna m46 in 9.3x57. i bought this rifle from simpsons for $305(s&h s&h included). i had my gunsmith do a d&t, bend the bolt handle and a two position safety. i took her huntingearly doe season and she THWAPPED a doe!!! later during rifle deer season, she had three bucks come to me. one was a small 6pt that i let go. two and three were huge bucks, but i couldn't get a shot at two and three was swiveling his head when i noticed that he had broken off his left antler(like 6" up was gone). so i let him go. now she's back at the gunsmith to do a spring lock kit and put on a rifle pad(it was a piece of black plastic and round head screws!!!)

It should be well respected ! It has real near all the capability of the .375-06 (Whelen) !

A person could spend a lifetime of study on the terminal performance of expanding VS non expanding cast bullets to come to a full understanding of how each variable change will effect the terminal performance. For sure a non expanding is more predictable in the consistency of its performance.
One good indicator of potential terminal performance is the BC of the cast bullet. In this case a high BC that is desirable for ballistic performance can have a negative effect on terminal performance. Cast bullets with higher BC will have more pointy nose shapes and lower BC will have more blunt nose shapes.
Anyone having access to the early editions of the Lyman cast bullet hand book can look at the BC chart in that book and see the extent of change in BC going from pointed or semi pointed, then to round nose, then to flat nose on bullets of the same caliber and similar weight and length.
If your looking at designs to shoot long range target go with the high BC but if for hunting go with the lowest BC per equal weight.
In our 9.3mm 280gn RN-GC it is designed to be something close to the shape of the jacketed bullets the cartridge is factory loaded with in Norma and RWS ammo. It shoots good but because of its round nose (higher BC ) it is less desirable as a hunting bullet. Understanding that fact and also knowing that our limited offerings in this caliber were lacking a good hunting bullet I used the on line design program at Mountain Molds to design what I thought would be a good hunting bullet design and so far it appears I was successful. As it turns out it would be the last bullet I would ever design using that program because Dan Lynch has since retired and Mountain Molds is now no more.

I also used Dan's program to design our 375 caliber 370gn bullet and it too was designed for hunting. The wounding capability of that bullet is beyond belief. My top end velocity in my 26" barrel 375/06 is just shy of 2400 if I recall correctly.
As I earlier stated it would require a lifetime of study to fully understand terminal effect of ballistic changes and varying degrees of expanding to non expanding cast bullets but for certain the higher the terminal velocity for any nose shape the larger the wound. The bullet weight has a tremendous effect on the terminal velocity and its rate of deceleration. The greater the weight the greater the momentum and the greater the retained terminal velocity. If we were to take two bullets of the same caliber of the same nose shape but of different weight say a 375 caliber 270gn and a 370gn and give then the same impact velocity in the same media resistance and both exit the bullet with the greater weight will exit with a higher velocity. If as I said that terminal velocity has great effect on wound size then the bullet exiting with a higher velocity will have created the larger wound. This is putting things in simple terms because as I said this subject alone would require a lifetime of study to have a total mental grasp of the effects of all the variable changes but it makes the point of the physic's of momentum and what Sir Isaak Newton meant when he told us quite simply that "" energy in motion tends to stay in motion ""