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BEAR
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Posted: 25 October 2018 at 15:03 |
A few years back CB and I were doing gun shop/ gun show routes; found a kitchen sporter Krag 30-40 turn bolt gun.
Now, 4+ years latter, it is ready for test run. loading 190 grain extra hard cast bullets in front of RL-7 20 grains. will sight in and test accuracy tomorrow. Want to be my NY state 90 yards whitetail rifle. action is slick as cat s--t.
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Wing master
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That's awesome.
It's always good to see a classic rifle get to make a hunting trip. Wing master
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I have always considered myself to be quite the bullshitter, But ocasionally it is nice to sit back and listen to a true professional......So, Carry on.
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90 and in, good set of irons, quite enough for the ole game at hand. Now the hard part is waiting til New Commielands deer season to use it!
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...oh yeah! thats gonna hurt!
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Irish Bird Dog
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So Bear, what did it take to get the "kitchen Krag" ready for the current test run or maybe by now it has been tested. what were the results?????
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BEAR
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Stock needed some finishing and bedding..also took a good bit of wood off the foreend. some bolt polishing.
new side mountbase and rings. load developement has been a disaster. Groups about 6 inches at 50 yards with cast. So I took some of the same cast loads to fire in my ruger single shot.... .5 inches at 50 yards. so the problem is in the bolt krag, not my reloads. Fall hunting/traveling season stopped the rifle check-out. Plan: check scope screws if screws tight, remove new scope and put old reliable Leupold on and re fire. if no better grouping re crown muzzle., Somewhere inhere could be a new barrel?????? E W Shaw?
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Irish Bird Dog
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Sounds like a good project to have going........my old Krag shoots "minute-of-deer" with jacketed reloads. Never tried any cast boolets in it. Brownells sells the "things" necessary to recrown a bbl.
I have one E.R. Sharw bbl from the early 1970's and it is also good for at least "minute-of-deer"....maybe better. Still the iron sights and they are pretty hard to see anymore. Don't forget the scope mount screws too!
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