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Message started by Knute1 on May 26th, 2018 at 2:26am

Title: Re: Board On Magazine Arms -1892
Post by waterman on May 26th, 2018 at 6:31am
Two comments: 

One, the Army had a history of designing their rifles to succeed in the most recent war.  The Krag would have been just the ticket at the Little Big Horn or when chasing the Apaches.

Two, the early trials of machine guns (and Gatlings, Nordenfelts, etc.) indicated that flanged (rimmed) cartridges caused fewer extraction problems during rapid & prolonged firing than did the grooved (rimless) cartridges.  That may be why our Krags use rimmed cases.

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