PaulH.
My load for 180's is the same. I have my dad's(It belonged to 3 previous generations before my dad) 1896 Krag. This holds a speacial place in my heart. My dads Uncle took a piece of walnut from our family farm(farm has been in family 200+ years) and made a stock for it. Nothing fancy buy it looks perfect with the Krag action. Barrel had been trimed 2" and re-crowned. With a cheap old scope this gun will shoot a group @100yds that a dime will cover. Done it many a time. Our high school in Penna. has a rifle team that has, and still does dominate all other schools in Pa. (state champs more than I can recall .22 prone only) Every year we had a picnic and shoot. That old gun won the 100yd bench compition 3 out of four years,shooting against 22-250. 243, and so on.Killed alot of deer also.

Piebald



Of all my rifles (358 NM, 7x64, Ruger 7x57, 338-06 AI, 7mm Mag) The Krag is my favorite. Just something about it. Smooth action and great cartridge to reload. I friend of mine gets mad as hell when I out shoot his Rem 700 in 243 with the Krag and he can shoot too. I am trying to get a Enfield .303 sporterized (P14 action) off a family member. It has a trashed barrel and would make a perfect canidate to rebarrel to 30-40 Krag.



My Krag is the rifle on the bottom. I reworked the safety myself and a local gunsmith reworked the trigger to a single stage.

Paul, good luck if you get to move forward on that P-14 Conversion. I have an extensively reworked one in 30/40 Ackley Improved (40degree) that I am very fond of.. Idabull

I am lucky to have been able to find an 1898 production carbine one, if you call a 24 inch barrel a carbine.

It is in immaculate condition. It was probably sporterized in the 1950s, with a Lyman target site added and a Redfield Front barrel site added.

For open sites and a military trigger this rifle shoots 190 grain Sierra Match HPs into a 3 inch group or so at 200 yds. Not bad since the guy who is shooting it, can't see much on open sites at 200 yds.

The guy at the gunshop that I bought the Sierras at, was making fun of another guy who was asking about shooting the Match kings in a Krag. The guy behind the counter told him that, they would be a waste of money.

I had to chuckle as he was ringing up my purchase to do just that. Mine shoots unbelieveable period. then you factor in a 105 yr old barrel, made in 1898, This rifle will be with me the rest of my natural life.

I know mine is supposed to be worth quite a bit, since it was in a production run of 5,000 carbines. However, I would not sell it for any price. Like a good woman, a good rifle with a history to it, is not worth any amount of money, as it is hard to replace.