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I've lubed a ton of bullets with the old NRA formula.

I've also used Emmert's lube which IIRC correctly is similar to that listed by Vall.

Lately I've been using Darr lube which is essentially 50% paraffin 50% vaseline and a splash of case lube or some other lubricant. It's not great for hot weather but I've had good results with it.




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The top gun of mine that Fred just posted is my #4, which duplicates as nearly as possible the 1909 Krag sporter of Paul Jenkins done by Steve Munier. #4 is a wonderful shooter. It has a throat much shorter than the arsenal Krags. I can breech seat 308274 with its prominent front band in fixed ammunition. I'd shot a lot of good groups with this one. The other is #5. On the off side of the gun is a cheek piece and a Lyman #48.#5 shoots well too. If I have pictures of #s 1 and 2, I don't have them anymore

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1902 those are some great looking rifles

I've seen other photos of the No.5 rifle.
The great Photobucket debacle has lost many images on these forums, thrashing the archives.
Pity.

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I haven't been on the site since my last post, didn't know there were so many cast shooters here.
Here's the particulars of the loads that work best in my Krag. I decided to only use molds I already had, due to the pitted condition of the bore not warranting buying molds just for this gun. My alloy is straight clip on wheel weights and my lube is home-made FWFL (recipe on "cast boolets") The barrel slugs .309. I use 20.5gr 4227 with the 311299, velocity of 1500fps. I shoot them as cast, they drop from the mold at .311. Next best load with that bullet is 16.5gr 2400 at a little over 1400fps. My 311291 is a plain base. The mold was slightly damaged at the base from someone trying to pry a bullet out. I had access to a mill where I worked, so I removed the gas check shank to clean up the damage. 7.5gr of Red Dot is the load it likes best, about 1150 fps. I shoot it as cast too, it drops at .3105. Other molds I tried were 3118, 31141, 311227, 311334 and a Lee 150gr flat point. Other than the 31141, the others were probably too short for the Krag throat for any accuracy. No idea why the gun didn't like the 31141, best I could get it to shoot was about 5" at 100. Powders tried with the various bullets were 4227, 2400, Red Dot, Unique, 4198, 3031, 4895.

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Greg thanks for the load notes.

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A couple of weeks ago, Dan asked me to post some pictures to this thread. I got kind of busy, forgot about it, but thought that I would get it done today, before the year ended. Happy New Year everyone.












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The top one is a Sedgley Krag mannlicher stock, probably made custom after they quit cataloging the Krag sporters. The bottom one was from the Benneson sale and it was what he called rusty and you could hardly see the stock grain. Well it wasn't rusty, it was just coated with a lot of crud which cleaned off nicely. It was actually from a carbine or at least a carbine barrel.

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