Post by Parashooter on Mar 26th, 2020 at 4:31am
butlersrangers wrote on Mar 26th, 2020 at 2:02am:
| IIRC - 'Parashooter' has displayed, a number of times, that the Krag bolt can be closed on a chambered .303 British round, with a bit of 'springing' of the cartridge case. . . |
Yup, doesn't take much to crank a Krag down on a .303 round. (By SAAMI specs, difference in length to start of neck between .303 case and .30/40 chamber is just .057" - and .303 shoulder is decidedly slimmer.) If you look at the aution photo of fired .303 cases it's pretty obvious that's the route taken.
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Attached photo below demonstrates chambering (NOT firing) various .303's in my '98 Krag.
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