Mr. Olpeddler from Massachusetts, welcome to KCA!. You have come to the right place for everything Krag.

Congrats on owning a M1899 Krag carbine. Sounds like you are working on trying to get the most enjoyment out of your carbine. Krags are great fun but can be very frustrating when you run into problems.

Fisrt of all, if you are able to take some pictures and post them here for us to see, we would love to enjoy your carbine with you and we might be able to point out some details right off the bat that can give some insight into what you have and what might be going on with it. Any alterations from original military configuration could alter its function. That could include an altered front or rear sight, a damaged barrel or bad bore with little rifling left, a stock that has issues of fit and function that might change the shooting ability, a chamber or bolt issue that could affect shooting. There can be many things that attribute to poor accuracy.

Original and properly functioning Krags, rifles as well as carbines, can be shot, with good ammunition, to minute of angle accuracy. I'm getting close with mine. Others here have done it. But, when you are off that much and can't get it on paper, something is wrong.

Have you tried factory ammo yet? If you look at the older ammo posts, you'll find ample examples of reloading recommendations for accurate ammo with different bullets and powder.

So, good luck. We'd love to see pictures. Many times the front sight has been changed and that's the simple correction. The front sight blade on the M1899 carbine with the M1901 rear sight was originally 0.352 inches. The rifle front sight blades were 0.410 inches. Check it out!