'Knute" - An interesting read; Thanks for posting.

FWIW - my thoughts:

Lt. John T. Haines, (5th Cavalry, U.S. Army), in his March, 1895 response, seems a little bit 'snarky' and defensive.

His insistence that the correct name for the arm was: "U.S. Magazine Rifle Model 1892" and not "Krag-Jorgensen", probably reflects official sensitivity to continued criticism that the U.S. had adopted a 'foreign rifle'. (Of course the slang name "Krag" was destined to survive and the rifle became an Icon)!

I am not aware of Lt. Haines official position, but, his response to Lt. Lyon's comments in "The Army Navy Journal", were sent from Springfield Armory.

Ultimately a lot of the points discussed were adopted: changes to the hand-guard, safety-mechanism, muzzle crown, cut-off lever, cleaning-rod, and weight reduction.

Rear-Sight changes and 'improvements' became a "strange and wonderful" part of the Krag .... ooops ... Magazine Rifle Story.

"Bullet Drift" proved to be an amazing and rather peculiar challenge and side-story with our Krag-Jorgensen system rifles and carbines and how they performed.

Lt. Lyon's thought that changing rifling-twist direction would 'correct' felt effects of recoil to the cheek and poor trigger pulls sounds pretty naïve and dated.