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Message started by RicKrager on Dec 10th, 2019 at 1:37am

Title: Re: Is this gonna get me in trouble?
Post by FredC on Dec 10th, 2019 at 3:55pm
Rick,
As mentioned we like to see all kinds of Krags. If you check the sporter section there are many modified rifles and carbines there many nice ones and a few really ugly. Even an ugly one gets discussed and sometimes we can find a few good points in them also. Only 2 things raise the ire around here, one would be bubba-ing a nice original Krag and the second is breaking up a nice Krag for profit on the parts.
40 years ago before the internet allowed a person to find parts I broke the trigger on my dad's rifle by trying to drive the pin out the wrong direction. Back then there were only a couple of dealers that sold parts for old guns. I ordered a new trigger and it was a cast piece of junk the geometry was a joke, pin hole was way oversize, cast finish was terrible. I was working at a screw machine shop at the time and the only machines available for side jobs were a drill press and a surface grinder, so I built a trigger and made it better than original (in my opinion) by changing the profile. It has a generous first stage and no travel on the second before it fires.
If you post photos of your trigger mod in the sporter section I can post a couple of mine. I did find the junk trigger in the junk box. Some will get a laugh out of what was passed off as a working trigger.

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