The Krag will ALWAYS be my favorite rifle!  The action is hands-down the smoothest operating rifle ever made!  The rifle is easy to load, easy to shoot, and with the right ammo and in the right shooter's hands, extremely accurate too!  Just because the Mauser fired a hotter round, and could be reloaded faster doesn't make it a better rifle... and using a charger, I bet I can reload my Krag faster than any Mauser on the line at Perry!!!

By the way, the Krag, although short lived in regular army service, did have a pretty long life.  Krags were used in Cuba, the Philippines, China, England and France in WW1... and even hung around on Ships and as trainers as late as WWII!