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Firearms >> Sporterized and unofficial modified Krags >> Less than 22 inch barrel? http://www.kragcollectorsassociation.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1518409007 Message started by Baltimoreed on Feb 12^th, 2018 at 4:16am

Title: Less than 22 inch barrel?
Post by Baltimoreed on Feb 12^th, 2018 at 4:16am

On the Krag, what is the significance of the 22 inch bbl length? Or the 30 inch bbl? Is there something special about either length and the .30-40 military round? Or was it just an arbitrarily chosen length? Other than sight radius would cutting an already cut bbl to 19-20 inches hurt anything? I'm thinking about a scout/krag. Haven't shortened anything yet, still working on the forward scopemount.