Krag Cut-Off Question

[Shiloh]

On my 98' Krag, The cut-off has some play in it. in the up "On" position, it flops around a little.
There is plenty of tension on it so it won't fall to the off position.

Any of you Krag shooters notice this?? The cutoff plunger is captured, as it has been peened on the side.
I don't know what the arsenal length is supposed to be, bit it looks about .060-.065" short.

It would be nice if it was snug.
Let me know folks!!
Thanks,
Shiloh

[Der Gebirgsjager]

Hard to say for sure without it being on my bench, but (1) there are two different lengths of cut off levers-- maybe you need the longer one.(2) The little plunger and spring in the lever are held captive in the lever, usually by the plunger's hole being deformed a bit, so the possibilities arise that perhaps it is staked too hard and not allowing free movement of the plunger, not allowing the plunger to come out of the hole and push hard enough against the little ledge on the receiver to maintain tension on the lever, or wrong plunger, or weak spring.

DG

[Shiloh]

My observation as well.

When I acquired the rifle, the cut-off was missing. There was a Redfield target sight anchored in the cut-off bore, and it was missing the aperture peep.
I ordered a cut-off lever, not knowing at the time there were different lengths. Other than the bit of slop in the on position,
It works just fine.

Shiloh





Hard to say for sure without it being on my bench, but (1) there are two different lengths of cut off levers-- maybe you need the longer one.(2) The little plunger and spring in the lever are held captive in the lever, usually by the plunger's hole being deformed a bit, so the possibilities arise that perhaps it is staked too hard and not allowing free movement of the plunger, not allowing the plunger to come out of the hole and push hard enough against the little ledge on the receiver to maintain tension on the lever, or wrong plunger, or weak spring.

DG

[Der Gebirgsjager]

Well, here's what we can do. If you want to PM me your mailing address I'll send you a long cut off (right?) via US Mail. You can install it and see if it works better, then mail me your shorter one which I'll put in the parts drawer to help out the next guy who needs a short one. No charge for the part, and we should come out close enough on the postage to call it even.

DG

[Shiloh]

I'm up for that.
Let me see what the current length is the one in place now.
The way I understand it, the shorter one was for the '98 Krag, and the longer ones for the 96' Krag.
sounds lie they are interchangeable for the 98's and maybe not so for the earlier Krags.

Shiloh




Well, here's what we can do. If you want to PM me your mailing address I'll send you a long cut off (right?) via US Mail. You can install it and see if it works better, then mail me your shorter one which I'll put in the parts drawer to help out the next guy who needs a short one. No charge for the part, and we should come out close enough on the postage to call it even.

DG

[Noah Zark]

As an aside, this puts me to me mind of two Krags I acquired, both of which had cut off levers which were actually cut off. Yep, the cylindrical shaft was cut off so that it had no effect on the top most cartridge in the magazine regardless of what position the lever was placed. The lever was still there for presumably cosmetic reasons. Must have been a practice of sorts back in the day, because when I saw a few parts dealers at various gun shows, they had cut-off cut offs in their containers in addition to both short and long cut offs.

A sporterized Danish 6.5x55 Krag I picked up had a US cut off fitted, which would not allow a cartridge to feed with the cut off in either position. Effectively the rifle was a single shot. I used one of the cut-off cut offs in the Dane and it fed fine from either lever position.

Noah

[Texas by God]

As a further aside, I had to cut off the cut off and capture the rod in place so that the gun would feed correctly with the Redfield 102K installed( on my 98 Springfield).
Krags are amazing.

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[IridiumRed]

Well, here's what we can do. If you want to PM me your mailing address I'll send you a long cut off (right?) via US Mail. You can install it and see if it works better, then mail me your shorter one which I'll put in the parts drawer to help out the next guy who needs a short one. No charge for the part, and we should come out close enough on the postage to call it even.

DG

Things like that are one of the reasons this place is one of my favorite forums online :) Good karma there