If you're axing ME about the metallurgy of Krags...move on, nothin' to see here. What I don't know could fill the Grand Canyon. In my musty 'library', Phil Sharpe, Julian Hatcher, Frank de Haas, Bob Brownell, have little to say other than one Petrov, ground off the locking lug, stoked 'er with 20 grains of Bullseye...with the result, it did wreck the rifle but the bolt did not exit rearward. Which, was better than the same test in the vaunted 1917 Enfield, which sheared both lugs (estimated 70,500) used to make many custom belted cartridge rifles. So, metallurgy-shmetallurgy.
