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Message started by toddm on Jul 12th, 2019 at 5:09am

Title: Re: Supposedly a Danish Krag...unsure of what I have.
Post by FredC on Jul 12th, 2019 at 5:00pm
Only seen these in pictures so do not believe anything I say. The Krag looks nice, did your brother fire it at all before the health issues? If so that may be an indication of safety. The bore is clean and unobstructed (not plugged)? The chamber looks bright and clean? Another member mentioned a chamber that looked to be intentially destroyed.
Fore and aft play in the bolt could be measured with indicators with and without one of your empty cartridges if you have access to that kind of equipment. That would check head space.
Those would be the first thing I would look at.
Also the muzzle end looks funny to me in one of the photos, maybe that is normal as I have never seen one in person. Other members here will have a lot more to say.
If you have a windows computer you can open a photo in paint brush and resize it to get it within the 768KB range. I will try 95% in both directions and save the photo to the desk top with RS added to the name for resized (renaming keeps you from destroying the original). If it is not under the limit delete the RS one and try again till you get it within the limit. Your first photo would be sPvmby2RS.jpg when finished, or something like that.
I took too long typing and 2 other replies got ahead of me.

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