kstone,
I'm sure it's got to do with the top rim of your 325 clip. I've never bought a clip rifle new that I didn't have to round and smooth the top edges, sometimes even bend them, to get the rounds to feed smoothly into the chamber. Probably the top shell (on the right?) feeds fine but the second shell coming from the left (or vice versa) is catching on the clip edge or chamber mouth due to its attitude when sliding out of the clip. Try loading one less shell in the clip and see if it still does it. As to your earlier point, yes you can load a clip magazine rifle with a round in the chamber but it's not nearly as simple as dropping shells (any old way) into the side magazine of a Krag and snapping it shut. I truly think this is one of the best features of the rifle, for military or sporting use - the ease of loading. It can be loaded with one in the chamber or without one in the chamber; you don't have to open the bolt to load it. Imagine trying to load two rounds into a partially loaded Springfield 1903 magazine while laying in a shallow muddy trench. First you have to open the bolt and eject the cartridge from the chamber, then you have to find that cartridge, then pull two rounds out of a full stripper clip and load them individually into the magazine. Mauser style claw extractors can only feed from the magazine, which inherently reduces their magazine capacity by one shell if its a box magazine (not a clip). The US Army seemed to think the Krag magazine was a disadvantage (in 1900) and opted for a Mauser type rifle but I think they were wrong; it wasn't long before they realized that they needed a rifle that was easier and faster to load and asked Mr. Garand to make them one prior to the next big war! Also, the 30-40 is ample for bear, deer and elk and many grizzly and moose were taken by them North of the lower 48. The Krag provides optimum velocity at typical ranges for standard jacketed bullets like a CoreLokt, Power Point or Sierra GameKing to work best.