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Re: 1895 Carbine
Reply #15 - Jun 7th, 2012 at 3:09am
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I dont think it is 303 as i just took a round of 303 and it with in the rifle as it was made for it, I dont have any of my reloading books in the house right now so 30-30 might be about right but 303 is almost if not the same length at this point and my 30-40 rounds are not in the house eiths to compair with, if I remember i will go pull a round of each and check them for length
  
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Re: 1895 Carbine
Reply #16 - Jun 7th, 2012 at 5:30am
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Most sporter versions of the US Krag are just shortened rifles or altered carbines, perhaps with some extensive stock work, but with issue barrels. 

There are other versions with slightly altered actions, usually a modification to allow slightly longer cartridges to feed through the magazine.  I have seen these in .35 WCF and .405 WCF.  These have completely new barrels and usually new stocks. 

Probably the most common non-30/40 version was rebarreling to .25/35 Winchester.  The Krag action fed the 25/35 case with no alterations necessary.  Since the 25/35 works in the action, the other bottleneck cartridges based on the same case (30/30, etc) should also feed well.  These can be found with either new stocks or just worked-over military stocks.  These conversions were made because many hunters considered the 30/40 cartridge to be excessively powerful.

Krag actions were also used to make .219 Zipper, .22 Hornet & variants, .22 Savage HP, and .25 Krag varmint rifles.  All those are usually found as single shots, and usually with new stocks.
  
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