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Knute1 KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 738 Location: Illinois Joined: Sep 10^th, 2016 Gender:	1909 Townsend Whelen Book May 13^th, 2020 at 2:37am	Print Post
	Here is a relatively early Townsend Whelen book (1909), with many references to the Krag rifle, titled "Suggestions To Military Riflemen". The Krag received nearly equal press as the 1903 Springfield due to the Krag at that time was still being used by the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Philippine Constabulary and military schools. (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: 1909 Townsend Whelen Book Reply #1 - May 13^th, 2020 at 4:19am	Print Post
	Whelen 'cut his teeth' target shooting with the Krag. This work can be ordered online through 'print on demand' services.


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mavt KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 88 Joined: Jan 19^th, 2020	Re: 1909 Townsend Whelen Book Reply #2 - May 13^th, 2020 at 4:24am	Print Post
	So how do you pronounce the good Colonel's last name and the cartridge named after him?


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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: 1909 Townsend Whelen Book Reply #3 - May 13^th, 2020 at 4:29am	Print Post
	In SE Michigan, "Whale-Inn" ... I believe.


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Knute1 KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 738 Location: Illinois Joined: Sep 10^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: 1909 Townsend Whelen Book Reply #4 - May 13^th, 2020 at 10:48am	Print Post
	Right or wrong, and I have heard others pronounce this way, I pronounce it the same way as Waylon Jennings pronounced his name.


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mavt KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 88 Joined: Jan 19^th, 2020	Re: 1909 Townsend Whelen Book Reply #5 - May 13^th, 2020 at 1:21pm	Print Post
	There are a lot of threads on various forums about the pronunciation. Two posts on different forums both state how Townsend pronounced it and both are different, lol!. Whee-lin Wh-laylin According to wikipedia his friends called him Townie.....James Howe naming it 35 Townie would have eliminated all the confusion.


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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: 1909 Townsend Whelen Book Reply #6 - May 13^th, 2020 at 2:19pm	Print Post
	"Waylon" works for me ... sling, cartridge, the man. How do you pronounce "Knute"? (Newt, Ka nute)? Chassepot, Dreyse, Garand, Mannlicher-Schoenauer, Krag-Jorgensen, Farquharson, Mosin-Nagant, Bethier? ... dang! (Spell-Check doesn't like any of them).


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Knute1 KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 738 Location: Illinois Joined: Sep 10^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: 1909 Townsend Whelen Book Reply #7 - May 13^th, 2020 at 9:08pm	Print Post
	Ka-newt. You know, like the phrase: Did you ka-nock your ka-nee on the door ka-nob?


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