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  • kj47
    Senior Member
    • Apr 2013
    • 699

    #1

    Warmer weather coming

    Weather getting better, Time to dig out the carbine 1896 with 1899 updates 1901 rear sight. Nice bore, should shoot good.
  • jon_norstog
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2009
    • 3896

    #2
    Sounds close to what my first Krag was ... it would shoot closer than I could hold it. And you can get a pretty fine hold with the peep aperature on the 1901 sight.

    Good luck!

    jn

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    • kj47
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2013
      • 699

      #3
      Thanks Jon, p[an on going next week, have some 180gr rem corelok {6 boxes} some reloads also that I picked up at a gun show last year. Will pull these apart for the cases and bullets. Will give a range report.

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      • jon_norstog
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2009
        • 3896

        #4
        Check out the primer flattening on those green box loads! None of the so-called max loads in the loading books leave the primers with that hard-edge look. The factory 180s are a damn good hunting load. I've had good luck with lighter loads for target shooting, and some of the guys on this list have gotten god results using cast bullets, wheel-weight metal.

        jn

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