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Knute1 KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 738 Location: Illinois Joined: Sep 10^th, 2016 Gender:	Magazine Rifle Mfg Delay Report Nov 3^rd, 2018 at 3:22am	Print Post
	Here is a New York Times article on the Krag Jorgensen delay of manufacturing due to American inventor protests. It is not as sterile as the Annual Ordnance Department Report and has more "emotion" into it. The newspaper article is dated February 12, 1893. The headlines read: POSTPONING OF THE NEW RIFLE INVENTORS HAVE SUCCEEDED IN POSTPONING THE CHANGE (You need to *Login* to view media files and links)


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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: Magazine Rifle Mfg Delay Report Reply #1 - Nov 3^rd, 2018 at 4:23am	Print Post
	A Better Arm than the Krag-Jorgensen?!! Fake News!!! Damn the Resistance!!!


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Knute1 KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 738 Location: Illinois Joined: Sep 10^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: Magazine Rifle Mfg Delay Report Reply #2 - Nov 3^rd, 2018 at 6:47pm	Print Post
	I believe the first monetary value of $40,000 was a typo and should have been $400,000 as stated in the rest of the article. So there were four "exasperating" issues that likely gave Flagler heartburn. 1. The requirement to give American inventors another look for the first magazine rifle. Thus delaying the manufacture of the Krag Jorgensen rifle. 2. Russell and Livermore going to court for $100,000 claiming patent infringements. 3. The Army's old guard clinging onto the old Springfield single shot. 4. Developing a recipe for the cartridges smokeless powder. But he obviously plodded on.


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Knute1 KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 738 Location: Illinois Joined: Sep 10^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: Magazine Rifle Mfg Delay Report Reply #3 - Nov 4^th, 2018 at 3:43am	Print Post
	Here is the circular letter I believe was referred to in the New York Times article: (You need to *Login* to view media files and links) (You need to *Login* to view media files and links) (You need to *Login* to view media files and links) And here is General Order 16 that followed: (You need to *Login* to view media files and links)


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Knute1 KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 738 Location: Illinois Joined: Sep 10^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: Magazine Rifle Mfg Delay Report Reply #4 - Nov 4^th, 2018 at 10:35pm	Print Post
	Perhaps the above does not seem all that impressive. How about Lt. General Miles wanting to suspend production of the Krag Jorgensen rifle at the Springfield Armory 3 days before the Spanish American War began? This came out of a March 1901 article from Ainslee's Magazine. The title is "The Miles-Corbin Feud" (Miles was the Army Commander). Below is a few paragraphs. (You need to *Login* to view media files and links) (You need to *Login* to view media files and links)


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Knute1 KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 738 Location: Illinois Joined: Sep 10^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: Magazine Rifle Mfg Delay Report Reply #5 - Dec 23^rd, 2018 at 11:35pm	Print Post
	Here is another New York Times report on the Krag Jorgensen Rifle delay. It was written 7/4/1893. The report is on the testing of American rifle designs, of which there were 14. Durst had four of the designs submitted. He pulled out of the competition once his designs were put through trials and failing the tests. Russell and Livermoore had three designs, also. They would later have a lawsuit for infringement on some of their patents as another post has addressed. The Krag was not tested during these American-only trials. None of the American designs would pass muster and the Krag was not sub-planted as the U. S. Magazine Rifle, Cal. 30, Model of 1892. (You need to *Login* to view media files and links)


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