Tom Butts wrote on Jun 30^th, 2017 at 6:18pm:

Paul, Yes, I have a batch of Danes too.  I have been reloading for years  now.  I have used different cases, some reformed from 45-70 cases, some 7.62x54R, recently using 8x56R with some success.  Dies from CH-4D are good but quite expensive. I was just out shooting a heavy barreled target sporter yesterday.  I have to work on the front sight a bit and try it again.  I found this one will only chamber spitzer bullets, not any round-nose ones.  They can sometimes be a bit finicky.  I do love shooting them, though!!! If you decide to get into it, I have some loads that I use that I will share with you.  Then again, if it costs too much, and you get frustrated, I will take those Danes off your hands!!   :-) Best, Tom

In the 1920's the danes started refurbishing the Krags as they were pretty much shot out and worn down.
The original barrels has a "Metford" rifling and a leade over 1" to accomodate the 227grain round nose bullet of the time (chamber A). Newer stamped on the barrels as noone knew that there would be revisions on chamber design.

The replacement barrels has a standard cut rifling and a C chamber with a little over 1/4" leade. Later the leade was lengthned to almost 1 1/4" to accomodate armor piercing and tracer bullets wich was way longer than the original 196gr spitser.

Pic 1: Is a black powder loaded round 77grains highly compressed and 7½ grains of priming powder to set it off. A 227grain steel jacketed bullet going a whooping 470m/s~1540fps but generating 2300bar~33.3kpsi of pressure.
And the "Metford" rifling used in the first barrels.

Pic 2: shows the marks stamped on the action just ahead of the bolt.
Top mark is a standard C chamber of little over 1/4" and the bottom one is for the long throat.

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