As promised, another trip to the range.

Rule of thumb: First, get a group, later, move the group to the X...this is a little better than the first go-round.

This is 100 yards, 10 rounds of PRVI Partisan 139gr FMJBT over 14.0 grains of Trail Boss, about 1420fps. Sights at 400.

The recoil on these is very manageable and definitely does not beat up the rifle or the shooter.

The sight may need adjustment, but I shot to the right all day with both an M38 Swede and the Krag.
Usually, low and right.

I think I will stay with the Trail Boss load and try some PRVI 139gr FMJBT Carcano bullets at .268. The Krag slugs to .267
The rifle definitely likes jacketed bullets. My other test load was 30.0 grains of 4895, at about 2,100fps, which produced similar accuracy at a much higher pain level.

The PRVI bullets have an open lead base, which I think makes them obdurate better than the jacketed base Hornadys I tested.
At the higher load the Hornady and PRVI bullets were comparable for accuracy, but at the lower load the Hornadys were about 200fps slower and much less accurate.

I also plan to cast and custom size some of my own and also try some paper-patching.

Oh, and I need to disassemble the entire rifle and clean it, the bolt is sticky and the trigger varies greatly from about 10lb to somewhere North of 40…

I will figure out how to make this old girl shoot well again… :)

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