Is your crimp a hair below the canneleur?  Good looking ammo nonetheless. 

We always say that reloading doesn't really save you any money because you wind up shooting much more altogether. But, you're having a ton more fun and that's well worth all the trouble.

I love spending time reloading and working every detail of the case and powder and bullet. Sure have learned a lot along the way and I get much better ammo than any factory stuff.

You'll see after you go through a few more rounds of reloading! Have fun!

My Hornady brass came with a bevel. I haven’t seen any rim lock issues yet, but will certainly keep you all informed if I do.

Beautiful ammo!! Now show us those groups and sounds of ringing steel!

Mike4MSU wrote on Jul 16^th, 2019 at 8:11pm:

Since your earlier post on this topic cited "40gr of H4350 with 220 RN" as your load, I'm hoping "H4895" is a typing or memory error, as that could be a fairly stiff overload.

Mike4MSYU - It would be "OK" and a good idea to correct the error in the post detailing your load data.

Thank you Parashooter for bringing the error to my attention. It is now clear to me how an honest mistake could have caused a catastrophic result had the members of this forum not been so diligent.

On a lighter note, I wanted to share and post my results to hopefully learn from the group and improve my results over time.  I felt my 1899 Carbine and first attempt at reloading performed pretty well overall. I hope to play around a little with minor changes in charge (within max load limits) and in bullet weights to see if I can improve my initial results. Thanks to all for patience and forgiveness in my mistake.

olderthansome wrote on Jun 29^th, 2019 at 1:41pm:

In a recent thread one new to the forum was having feed issues in a rifle that was to be used in competition. For him adding the bevel fixed the problem. In my 35/40 with shorter than standard rounds I could only get rim lock with the muzzle aimed down, cases loaded with rims the wrong way and snapping the door closed. My cases are beveled Remington. I have not tried the Grafs case yet but the do have a smaller bevel.
On mine with the rifle level or pointed up no rim lock. Others have had the problem and solved it by replacing springs and pushers. A lot of these parts have been modified by various bubbas, so rim locks are not impossible. SA did a lot of work to make the Krag mostly trouble free, little mismatches in tolerances and or worn or modified parts can ruin the magic. Some time back we saw a Krag action and barrel with cut outs for observing the internal movements, with a high speed camera and that demo piece it would be possible to understand what goes on in there when the door is closed.