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Message started by TylerA on Mar 7th, 2017 at 11:53pm

Title: Re: Danish Krag Information
Post by Chickenthief on Aug 7th, 2017 at 11:20pm
The safety on the right was an add on in the 1910 refurbishings.
Until @1923 the rifling was a "Metford" hexagon rifling wich gave lower pressures with steel jacketed bullets. Smokeless powders was brand new at the time so they did what they could with what they had.

For the first few months of 1889 they actually loaded the round with 75grains of highly compressed black Powder and added 7½ grains of priming powder to light it up. Mind you with a 227grains round nose bullet that thing maxed out at 2300bar~33½kpsi!!! Not shappy for black ;-)

Nominal pressures with smokeless is 2600bar~37.7kpsi and the original loading with a 196grains cupro-nickel bullet is 770m/s~2526fps.

I'm Danish and have all the printed material on Danish Krags so ask away.

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