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Message started by concretus on Aug 6th, 2018 at 10:58pm

Title: Re: 1898 cut down rifle?
Post by butlersrangers on Aug 23rd, 2018 at 7:23pm
Krag carbine rear-sights sit closer to the barrel than their rifle version.

This requires that the carbine front blade also be shorter.

Which Krag rear-sight does your friend have now?

A carbine rear-sight will cost 5 to 10 times what the rifle version does. To find one 'loose' is getting difficult!

Also usefull to know:

Likely due to  barrel & action harmonics, 30 inch Krag rifles were reported to to show 'bullet drift' to the left out to about 900 yards, then it came back to zero and moved to the right.

(I imagine it was rifle barrel/action vibration that caused the bullet to depart the bore and be directed to the left and eventually 'bullet drift' brought the bullet back to neutral and ultimately to the right). "Horizontal Banana"!!!

Carbines showed less 'bullet drift' and it was always to the right.

Hey, tell me more about the Krag carbine - 'Clown Match'.
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