Folkes,
I have 4 Danish Krags.

Now has anyone found ammo?
Cases?
[for less than the price of racing gasoline, that is]
Oh, and reloading dies, and load data that they have tried.

Thanks, Paul

Tom Butts wrote on Jun 30^th, 2017 at 6:18pm:


In the 1920's the danes started refurbishing the Krags as they were pretty much shot out and worn down.
The original barrels has a "Metford" rifling and a leade over 1" to accomodate the 227grain round nose bullet of the time (chamber A). Newer stamped on the barrels as noone knew that there would be revisions on chamber design.

The replacement barrels has a standard cut rifling and a C chamber with a little over 1/4" leade. Later the leade was lengthned to almost 1 1/4" to accomodate armor piercing and tracer bullets wich was way longer than the original 196gr spitser.

Pic 1: Is a black powder loaded round 77grains highly compressed and 7½ grains of priming powder to set it off. A 227grain steel jacketed bullet going a whooping 470m/s~1540fps but generating 2300bar~33.3kpsi of pressure.
And the "Metford" rifling used in the first barrels.

Pic 2: shows the marks stamped on the action just ahead of the bolt.
Top mark is a standard C chamber of little over 1/4" and the bottom one is for the long throat.

By the 1930's tracers and armor piercing bullets became all the rage and machineguns too, so longer bullets loaded to higher pressures was the norm.

That resulted in the elongated 1 1/4" leade on the late c chambered rifles so they could digest the new ammo and not blow up. Only a select few were converted because it was only specially trained riflemen that had this ammo, the grunts had standard fmj and that was it.

I found some bullets in a case of 8x58RD tidbits.

Top: 173grains Tracer
2: 196grains standard fmj
3: 230grains RN fmj (old style)
Bottom: 124grains fmj short range/reduced load