Where to find 30-40 Krag brass?

[rutilate]

Has anyone found a source for 30-40 Krag brass? My father has been trying to buy unfired 30-40 Krag but it appears to be rather hard to find! I'm hoping to buy him some brass as a late Christmas present.

And I guess I should ask for pointers on where to go to find dies and bullets as well...

[smkummer]

Keep asking around. I ran into the same trouble and bought some here from someone awhile back. At the big Louisville show I was only able to find quantities of 20 at each show but I have a good working amount of about 150 right now. One of the big distributors had some awhile ago. If you really cant find any, I have 2 older boxes of factory ammo (one Remington and one Winchester) for $20 each plus UPS shipping. The 30-40 is a great cast bullet shooting gun and I am currently loading the Lyman 190 grain bullet sized to .311 with great success.

[nobody]

http://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/19593

[Hardcast416taylor]

Dies and "J" bullets should be no problem to locate. My Krag carbine seems to favor Speer 165 gr. SP bullets.Robert

[LIMPINGJ]

I just ordered 500 from Graf & Sons this week.

[brstevns]

If one has no other choice they can be made by running 303 Brit. through your loading dies. However they are just a little shorter in the neck then the 30/40 krag brass.

[Kraschenbirn]

As of about 5 minutes ago, Graf's had both W-W and R-P brass in stock...with W-W on 'special' at $19.95 for a bag of 50.

I, too, have formed cases from .303 Brit when I couldn't find any .30-40 and, then, formed them back to .303 when I located a source for real Krag brass.

Bill

[rutilate]

Great info, people, thanks! I'm going to pick up a couple of bags of brass.

Forgive my ignorance, but what are "J" bullets?

[wrench]

Jacketed;)

[rutilate]

Interestingly enough, I stumbled on a used set of 30-40 Krag dies on another forum yesterday and snapped them up quickly. I thought they'd be harder to find than they were. Or perhaps I just got really lucky.