I found a great old sporterized Krag carbine a couple years ago though polished and blued (nicely) it's original carbine stock was sanded to a splinter. You have to wonder what the guy was thinking; it is an actual 1898 carbine in the correct serial number range, with correct 1898C rear sight and stock with squared bolt recess and filled holes where the saddle ring had been. Only problem was/is a forend screw was used to support the forend with a dovetail slot cut on the bottom of the barrel just forward of the chamber, under the rear face of the rear sight base approximately. Barrel thickness at the dovetail is .940 at the narrowest and I did the math, subtracting .308 and dividing by two minus cut depth (.080) to leave .236 remaining. Is that enough? I've shot a dozen rounds, presuming that factory loads had been used in it for years. What's the minimum? It's a 45K psi cartridge of course and factory loads don't exceed 40K.
Last edited by Y33611; 07/09/16.
