waterman wrote on Jan 30^th, 2012 at 12:04am:

Photos of the bore don't really tell you much, but here is my tuppence worth.  The rifle's bore looked dark. It's anybody's guess what you would find when you started scrubbing.  And it may well never clean up.  Barrels like that sometimes shoot jacketed bullets pretty well, but rarely do well with cast bullets. The carbine bore looked as if it had just been worn but was otherwise smooth.  Those often shoot reasonably well with oversize cast bullets.  For cast bullets, try to find .311 (or larger) hard-cast gas check bullets already lubricated for starters.  .308s are apt to be a disappointment.  Look for something like Lyman 311284 or 311299.

Gotcha, so I want to compensate for the worn bore by using bullets sized a little larger. I will start looking for some online. How do Krags handle lead, I know some rifles (like AR's) don't like lead.

The other concern I had with the carbine is what the seller said about the sight, here is what he said verbatim;



I keep thinking I should go for the rifle, but that carbine keeps pulling me in   ;)