What’s your Krag accuracy load for 100/200 yd shooting? I’d like to hear it.
Bullet, powder, charge, lube, group size and/or anything else you’d like to share about target shooting/matches with a Krag.
What’s your Krag accuracy load for 100/200 yd shooting? I’d like to hear it.
Bullet, powder, charge, lube, group size and/or anything else you’d like to share about target shooting/matches with a Krag.
I'm watching this, too. I haven't finished my Krag, and I only used jacketed in my previous Siamese Mauser and 98 Springfield 30-40s. Hey, I was young then.
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12.5 of Red Dot under a 165 Lee spire point bullet, WW LP Primer. or samo samo with 10.0 Unique.
Currently, my only Krag is an 1898 carbine, probably sporterized in the early 1920s...at least, according to Lyman, the sights were mfg'd between 1919 and 1923. My 'go-to' is the 200 gr Lee, PC'd and sized to .311, over 35.0 gr H4350 with just a dab of dacron filler. Load produces right at 1850 fps and prints (iron sights) under 6" @ 200 yds. and, with a little sight adjustment, will consistently ring a 12" steel plate @ 300.
Bill
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In both my Krags, a 1898, and a 1899 carbine, both like 18 gr. 4759, ( I have lots of it ), with the Lyman 311291 bullet sized to .311. Velocity of 1500-1550 fps. I use the Lee 303 Brit collet neck sizer. Lee does not offer one for the 30-40, and the 303 Brit one works fine. Brass lasts forever using this.
18 grains of 2400
alox lube
1800 fps out of a 22 inch barrel
5 shots under 2moa at 100
311041 Gas Check 170 grain
NOE 311284 sized .312, cast hard
gascheck
White label BAC lube
17 grains 2400
same thing 311299
same thing 314299
I use the neck-sizing pin from a .303 die.
30-40 krag
165gr ranch dog sized to .311"
25.5gr of h4198
1930fps
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MOLON LABE
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |