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Message started by kstone1020 on Jun 4th, 2011 at 8:06pm

Title: Re: Looking for Krag owners in SW Pennsylvania
Post by 5MadFarmers on Jun 6th, 2011 at 4:10pm

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A Minie type bullet was loaded, and the bolt was pushed forward past its normal position, where a rod seated the bullet forward in the chamber. The bolt was then drawn rearward again where the unique Greene combustible cartridge (with the bullet in the rear of the charge) was inserted into the receiver. The bolt was then pushed forward again, this time down and to the right to close the breech.
To fire, a percussion cap was placed on a cone beneath the receiver, a "ring hammer" (forward of the trigger guard bow) cocked with the index finger, and then the regular trigger squeezed.
That caused the gun powder in the rear to fire the forward seated bullet, with a bullet at the rear acting as a gas check. The powder in the next round, once inserted, then fired that bullet, it leaving its rearward bullet behind. And so on.


The Greene design is intended to have the second round loaded while the first is still in the chamber.  Older than the C/R of course. 

My Remington 700 is the DM model - box magazine.
The Lee rifles, and there are many models, have box mags. 
The Dursts, just to continue the off-the-path ones, can be so loaded.
Remington made bolt action rifles with tubular magazines.
I seem to recall a Browning .22 loading with a tube in the butt?

Just on various Lee rifles I could probably hit 8 models.

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