Baltimoreed wrote on Mar 12^th, 2019 at 2:30am:

Your long rail works great. Love my Krag Scout.

There are many who scoff at the idea of a Krag "scout" rifle.  They say they are ugly, and "why, when you can use an AR," and so forth.

My view is that the Krag was a fighting rifle to begin with, and has a few features (like the loading gate, ammunition cut-off, and being able to manually thingy it and get a second strike on a stubborn primer) that enhance that function.  It makes a far superior "scout" rifle to any bolt gun that one must laboriously load through the ejection port -- which is all of them other than those with detachable box magazines, and with those one has to keep track of the magazines (in the dark!).   I have used mine in several "practical rifle" courses, and I cleaned up on all the exercises that were designed to run us out of ammunition.

One either "gets" the Krag or they do not.  Nothing is so smooth, and with a 20" barrel they are so handy!   In terms of appearance ... well, I really like my AR's, but they are hardly beautiful, and they are not the right tool for every job. 

To each his own, and may the best man win.

P.S. :  I wrote "manually c-o-c-k," and the machine censors it to "manually thingy."  Thingy??  HA!  Really?   ;D