I took my project Krag to the Range today for an initial tryout from the bench at 50 yards. I wanted to check the performance of my 'barrel installation'.

I put the barreled-action in an altered carbine stock, I had lying around.

The 'interim' sights are a 1903 front-sight base, with a commercial blade, and a model 1998 rifle rear-sight.

The front-sight is rather tall so I had to set the low 1898 rear-sight to 400 yards. Because the barrel seated a couple of degrees past the receiver index mark, the sights are slightly canted to the left. This is not readily noticeable and it did not bother me when shooting.

My fired cartridge cases looked fine. In fact, the fired cases from this project Krag will chamber in my favorite Krag 'Shooter' (and visa versa).

Since everything checked out "OK", today, I will now complete assembly of this parts project.

Good Barrel!

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