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Title: My new find, Original military 1876 Krag with pic
Post by JK on Mar 9^th, 2012 at 2:23am

My recent purchase. A 1876 Krag This is one of the Worlds first military approved repeating cartridge rifles. Of course Krag teamed up with Swedish engineer Petersson not Jogersen to produce this rifle.
It took the 12 mm Remington cartridge and has a 8 round magazine beneath the barrel.
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Title: Re: My new find, Original military 1876 Krag with pic
Post by Kirk on Mar 9^th, 2012 at 3:03am

Very nice find! Please post pictures of the opened action & other details.

Title: Re: My new find, Original military 1876 Krag with pic
Post by butlersrangers on Mar 9^th, 2012 at 4:25am

It appears to be adapted from a Martini action. Could you post more pictures showing how it operates (or describe)?

Title: Re: My new find, Original military 1876 Krag with pic
Post by butlersrangers on Mar 9^th, 2012 at 4:48am

Wow! I looked at information on the Krag-Petersson and viewed schematics during a Google search. It looks like a marriage of a Martini-Peabody and a Remington Rolling-block. Not really a Repeater. More like an "assisted feed". That's got to be a very rare bird. Thanks for sharing!

Title: Re: My new find, Original military 1876 Krag with pic
Post by butlersrangers on Mar 9^th, 2012 at 4:56am

Schematic Krag-Petersson

krag-petersson.jpg ( 9 KB | 0 Downloads )

Title: Re: My new find, Original military 1876 Krag with pic
Post by waterman on Mar 9^th, 2012 at 7:57am

If you can figure out a way to make it work as a recoil-operated repeating mechanism and feed from a top-mounted box magazine, you have one of the early Madsen machine guns.