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Magazine Follower and Door, Extra piece? (Read 1504 times)

Lead Pusher KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 15 Location: Hartland MN Joined: Dec 15^th, 2019 Gender:	Magazine Follower and Door, Extra piece? Jan 4^th, 2020 at 6:52pm	Print Post
	When I disassembled my 1896 Krag action, a small square flat piece of metal came out of the door. (Not sure what this part is called) What it was doing I doing not know but it fell out when I removed the hinge pin and door. It must have just been sitting in there and the follower would come up against it.


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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 Follower and Door, Extra piece? Reply #1 - Jan 4^th, 2020 at 7:53pm	Print Post
	A photo would help, but, I imagine it is a piece of a broken part. If all straight edges, likely part of the gate & follower spring. ("R") If curved and notched, likely part of the 'cover' of the hinge-pin. ("P")


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Lead Pusher KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 15 Location: Hartland MN Joined: Dec 15^th, 2019 Gender:	Re: Magazine Follower and Door, Extra piece? Reply #2 - Jan 4^th, 2020 at 8:06pm	Print Post
	I took a pic of the piece. It was laying in the Gate door behind the follower.


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Whig KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 1324 Location: Balt MD Joined: Sep 24^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: Magazine Follower and Door, Extra piece? Reply #3 - Jan 4^th, 2020 at 8:25pm	Print Post
	It looks like the one edge, from this picture, is irregular by having rusted or having been broken. I don't recognize this as any part of the Krag action at all. Must just have fallen in there or been placed in the action for some reason. Does everything else work? Anything seem out of place? Maybe someone else has an idea. If not sure, take a variety of pictures of the action and we'll see what might be wrong or different, if anything. Nice little mystery.


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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 Follower and Door, Extra piece? Reply #4 - Jan 4^th, 2020 at 9:12pm	Print Post
	Good! It looks like an unrelated piece of scrap-metal. Maybe it was wedged in place, to limit follower travel & magazine capacity, for some irrational reason?


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madsenshooter KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 1079 Joined: Sep 10^th, 2009	Re: Magazine Follower and Door, Extra piece? Reply #5 - Jan 5^th, 2020 at 3:04pm	Print Post
	The magazine box is just a handy place to put things. A friend let me work on his Krag rfle, I bent the trigger pin somehow and got him another. The new one stayed in the magazine for about 10yrs until I got around to working on the rifle again.


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Lead Pusher KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 15 Location: Hartland MN Joined: Dec 15^th, 2019 Gender:	Re: Magazine Follower and Door, Extra piece? Reply #6 - Jan 5^th, 2020 at 3:35pm	Print Post
	I haven't reassembled the rifle as I'm cleaning it up. Nothing that I can see would have cause to have this piece in there. This rifle came from a Grandfather that BUBBA'd this gun for a deer rifle, back when the gun wasn't that old. It must have been a heck of a good idea to add this piece of metal at the time. LOL


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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 Follower and Door, Extra piece? Reply #7 - Jan 5^th, 2020 at 5:13pm	Print Post
	Possibly, someone used that flat piece of steel to lift or lever the Krag "extractor-hook" upward for bolt removal. Some individuals have difficulty and find the process painful to their thumb. This could be an 'improvised tool' that, as 'Madsenshooter' stated, was stored inside the Magazine-Gate. As they say in Scotland .... "Whatever For"? (Why would you do that)?


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Doco Overboard KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 57 Location: Eastern Shore of MD Joined: Nov 21^st, 2017 Gender:	Re: Magazine Follower and Door, Extra piece? Reply #8 - Jan 11^th, 2020 at 7:42pm	Print Post
	I have seen bits of metal used to act as spacers around the mag box door spring to create extra tension or to keep the spring from moving left/right after the hinge pin was installed when the spring was broken. Just judging by the picture next to the steel tape that piece looks king of large though. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding where the metal bit came from exactly.


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FredC KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 759 Location: Dewees, Texas Joined: May 31^st, 2013 Gender:	Re: Magazine Follower and Door, Extra piece? Reply #9 - Jan 13^th, 2020 at 12:26am	Print Post
	One possibility I thought of, some localities have limits on magazine capacity when deer hunting. Could it have been a makeshift plug as used in shotguns when hunting migratory birds?


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