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craigster KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 64 Location: lost coast ca Joined: Dec 10^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: New to Krag's, already need a new stock. Reply #15 - Dec 29^th, 2019 at 6:26pm	Print Post
	Gorilla Glue has its' place, but not in stock repair.


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operavoice KCA Forum Member Offline Newbie Posts: 6 Location: Sonoma County, CA Joined: Dec 24^th, 2019 Gender:	Re: New to Krag's, already need a new stock. Reply #16 - Dec 30^th, 2019 at 5:00pm	Print Post
	Pmd about the stocks. Definitely interested.


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operavoice KCA Forum Member Offline Newbie Posts: 6 Location: Sonoma County, CA Joined: Dec 24^th, 2019 Gender:	Re: New to Krag's, already need a new stock. Reply #17 - Jan 3^rd, 2020 at 1:44am	Print Post
	The more I dug into the old stock, the more it is not worth repairing. At some point, a P.O. cut the wood behind and thusly eliminating the rear barrel band. I'm not a gunsmith, but I do understand quite a bit about stress points. Without that band, when the cartridge goes bang the entire action free-floats placing all of the stress on the wrist and the trigger screws. Lucky that no one got impaled.


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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: New to Krag's, already need a new stock. Reply #18 - Jan 3^rd, 2020 at 3:00am	Print Post
	You are correct. The Krag trigger-guard screws are very close together. The barrel needs to be held in place in the stock, with some variety of barrel-band (or 'anchor' screw), to prevent the barrel from rising and putting tremendous torque and stress on the stock, (in an area that is compromised and essentially weak).


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operavoice KCA Forum Member Offline Newbie Posts: 6 Location: Sonoma County, CA Joined: Dec 24^th, 2019 Gender:	Re: New to Krag's, already need a new stock. Reply #19 - Jan 9^th, 2020 at 6:10am	Print Post
	After getting one of those two stocks (Thank you again!!) . . . Spent about 45 minutes going at the wood with various Dremel cutting and sanding bits, getting the action to plunk into the stock. Made a nice little whoopdeedoo in the wood while doing it, but the action beds in perfectly. Brass came in today, so, off to the reloading section to learn from other's experiences before I pick a powder and a bullet.
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Whig KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 1324 Location: Balt MD Joined: Sep 24^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: New to Krag's, already need a new stock. Reply #20 - Jan 9^th, 2020 at 11:35am	Print Post
	We'd love to see pictures of this ongoing project including the little "whoopdeedoo"! We all have made some mistakes in fixing Krags over the years. They are pretty resilient, though! Don't forget some nice hand rub downs with boiled linseed oil to darker and give the stock that authentic military look. Good luck on the choice of bullets and powder. There are lots of these to work with.


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operavoice KCA Forum Member Offline Newbie Posts: 6 Location: Sonoma County, CA Joined: Dec 24^th, 2019 Gender:	Re: New to Krag's, already need a new stock. Reply #21 - Jan 16^th, 2020 at 4:29pm	Print Post
	There were two whoopdeedoos. You can see the little "triangle" whoops, when the Dremmel slipped out of the channel, and then a tiny little nick at the top.


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