My Krag Sporter

[405grain]

I've been lurking on this thread from the get-go. I love the Krag and repeatedly kick myself for letting go of a '98 carbine many moons ago. Texas by God's doing a great job sporterizing his rifle and it looks very nice. I hope that it shoots just as good as it looks.

[Texas by God]

Thanks! It was cool this evening so I fired 3 rounds at 40 yards. The aperture is so tiny I'll need to open it a bit. The glued and taped front sight served its purpose - I'll find just a tad taller blade front for keeps. Forgive the jacketed bullets!

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[Texas by God]

Wet it and sanded it a few times more. I will use Tru Oil when it's smooth enough.

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[444ttd]

oh look!!! a crack in the wood!!!!!! you'd better start over and send it to me. i'll use...i mean, take care of it.


great stock!!!!!!!!

[Texas by God]

Time to smooth up the barrel band for finishing. Forgive the welded up vise- but it still works.

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[Texas by God]

Thunderstorms here today so I'm pausing the oil rubs on the stock and so I'm sanding off the forming marks from the band. Not surprisingly, the band is "directional" so I cut a slot on the front bottom edge for consistent reassembly.

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[Texas by God]

The stock is pretty much done. I'm going to hang it out under the shed roof in the hot air for a week to harden the finish and air out the Tru Oil smell. I rubbed in 14 coats. Mean while I'll start prepping the metal for browning. I'll do the band first.

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[swheeler]

Stock looks pretty good, no judgement on the browning yet but bet it will look good too. Time for load development is right around the corner.

[Texas by God]

Thanks, swheeler for your encouragement along the way- I appreciate it.

[pietro]

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Nice work, Texas - before fooling with the aperture size, I would respectfully suggest you simply unscrew/remove the aperture and shoot through the resulting "ghost ring".

You should find target acquisition much faster, with only a minor degradation in accuracy - If it doesn't work for you, you've made no permanent change to the sight.


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[Drm50]

I run receiver sights on all my woods deer guns. When I sight rifle in I have a adjustable aperture and I use smallest one that I can. In the woods I use no aperture, just use frame. Most my shots are under 100yds and deer are running. Nothing faster and you can carry a aperture in case you are getting long shots.

[Texas by God]

Oh yes, I'm familiar with using the ghost ring. As luck would have it I found another Redfield sight in my parts box( CRS- thought I'd sold it) and it has a larger aperture on it so a swap was made.

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[444ttd]

very nice!!!!!!!!

[Texas by God]

For the future owner(s); I stamped some info on the bottom of the barrel and then the caliber stamp where it will show.

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[pietro]

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Very thoughtful - good on you ! !

Now it might be the time to put the cherry on top of your work and try checkering the stock (although I haven't been very good at it myself)

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[Texas by God]

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Very thoughtful - good on you ! !

Now it might be the time to put the cherry on top of your work and try checkering the stock (although I haven't been very good at it myself)

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Nor am I. I’ve always been steady as a rock one minute and steady as a rubber band the next. I tried checkering in the 1970s and couldn’t pull it off! Too much muscle jerk for detail work.....and that was when I was young. BTW Pietro- I’m looking for a post/ blade front sight for the model 70/ model 94 ramp dovetail and all I’m finding is bead sights. I’ve looked at Williams and Marbles with no luck- any ideas?

[444ttd]

maybe.......https://www.dixiegunworks.com/index/...ights?view_all

https://www.midwestgunworks.com/winc...-model-70.html

https://www.midwestgunworks.com/winc...-94/parts.html

[Mk42gunner]

Ashley or whatever the company is called now used to make a white center line post front sight to go with a rear aperture. I've got one of the narrow (cough, cough about .080") ones that I put on a Marlin 30AW that works well with a Williams 5D.

Robert

[KMac]

Ashley goes by XS Sights now.

[Texas by God]

My two ghost ring guns(Redding)have post front sights and I like that arrangement better than a bead. Apparently a little dovetail post front sight might have to be made from something else in order to fit the narrow m70 ramp.( the same width as m94 ramp)

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