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That's an extremely cool Krag. You should explore the wonderful world of cast bullets in that rifle. The long neck of the 30-40 Krag cartridge is perfect for cast bullets. These look like a good bet. I'd load them with H4895 to a velocity of about 1850 fps,...magnum primers to insure that the relatively light load gets ignited properly. https://www.xtremebullets.com/30-Cal-165gr-RNFP-Cowboy-p/x30-165rnfpc-b0500.htmYou need to come up with a die that would put a slight flare on the mouth of the case to keep from shaving lead when you seat the bullet. Other than that, it's a fairly straight forward process. I have some cast bullets a friend made me and was going to try them. But it shoots factory and my hand loads with 180 BT and 4350 so well I never worked up a load. With hand loads, even with the peep sights, I can get it to shoot around an inch most days. I have been in the deer woods with it but no luck. Maybe the deer are afraid of it. 😂 That's definitely a very tasteful Krag. My compliments. Still, I'd have to see how H4895 works with it. The case capacity and the pressure level of the Krag cartridge seems perfect for H4895. I looked for a Krag to shoot cast bullets in for a long time. I could never find an original with a bore good enough to tolerate cast bullets. What kind of barrel does that one of yours wear?
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I believe it’s the factory barrel with some work done to it. Front sight is a slide on barrel band made by Lyman. It is in pretty good shape obviously, but has some pitting here and there.
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I believe it’s the factory barrel with some work done to it. Front sight is a slide on barrel band made by Lyman. It is in pretty good shape obviously, but has some pitting here and there. You did good, then, if it's a factory barrel. I wouldn't change nothing on it,.....except I would sell it to *me*. But I can understand why you won't.
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Maybe some old glass snake oil/medicine/pill bottles.
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Other than 3 frames of arrowheads that are very old I would imagine, it would be my Krag made in 1900. 122 years old and sill going strong. Pretty amazing I think. Beautiful rifle
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A chunk of Vishnu Schist from the bottom of the Grand Canyon. 1.75 Billion years old. Impossible. 6,000 years, max.
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A portion of a brick that someone smuggled out of Pompei, no idea who though That reminds me, my grandma drove cross-country in the late 40s and stopped at the petrified forest in AZ. She picked up a piece of petrified wood, beautiful agate and jasper. You'd get in big trouble for that today.
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I have an ancient Greek silver coin that dates back to around the time of Alexander the Great, and a little chunk of pottery that I picked up on the grounds of the ruins of the palace at Knossos on Crete
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A couple coins from late 1800's
1909 Winchester 29 pump 22
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A stone from the Crazy Horse Memorial.
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Late 1700s, early 1800s Rittenhouse Potts surveyors instrument. Was my 3rd great grandfather's. I have a letter from my great grandfather in the box stating it's history. His grandfather, David Clouser laid out Clay County Missouri with it in the early/mid1800s.
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The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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Actually arrowheads but I don't consider them to be as valuable to me as the surveyors instrument.
Also have some round rocks somewhere from the Vista Circle in St Clair County Missouri. About baseball/softball sized. Guess some kind of meteor or whatever you space nuts call them crashed to earth a few days back, approximately 340 million years ago.
These rocks are everywhere around Osceola Mo.
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The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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1892 winchester 25-20 saddle ring carbine . handed down from my grandfather
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1/2 gallon brass “trade kettle” (pot) from the 1820’s. “RE AD” marked straight razor bought from Belgium, age unknown but 1830’s style with horn scales.
I use them as part of my kit when reenacting.
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A washstand that mas my great aunt's.
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Somewhere I have a Precambrian rock sample. It's 500 million - 4 billion years old. Other than that, a muzzle loader from my Grandmothers side of the family. Unknown age or maker at the moment.
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Model 1874 Sharps Business rifle. Invoiced out of Sharps in October of 1877 sent to B.Kittredge in Cincinnati, Ohio then sent to Dakota territory and sold to a Buffalo hunter. The gun then ended up on the Soholt ranch in the Black Hill of SD. When the ranch was sold and property auctioned off a local collector bought it and a few years later he passed and his brother disposed of his estate. A local gun dealer bought it and that's how it came to me. Yeah it still shoots. black powder paper patched bullets of lead shoots far kills dead...mb
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My mom's diamond. At least a billion years old.
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