Krag-Jorgensons

[Kaywoodie]

This is the stuff I like to drag to the woods. I don't care much for anything in he way of sporting rifles unless they are at least 60-70 years old. I'm not much into competition or target shooting, but I love to loaf around in the woods with an old
Piece of steel and wood. Here are a few old wore out things from the safe.

Middle one sports a Redfield #70 receiver sight. And I prefer the 220 grainers out of it! Bottom piece is deadly with plain old Remington factory 180's



Out chasing elk in Colorado 2013.

[Don McDowell]

Love those old Krag's.

[Mike]

Gorgeous!! And that top one looks like a Sedgley Sporter job. It just has to be my favorite. Many moons ago I had a Sedgley Springfield Sporter in .270, the only .270 I've ever owned. That was some doin's and I probably wouldn't have sold it if I realized I'd never see another. Shoot sharp, Mike

[Kurt]

I think the Krag has one of the smoothest bolt gun actions made. Fast to reload and a fine hunting rifle.
I passes on a fine carbine last winter that looked like it just came out of it's cosmoline sealed bag.

Kurt

[Kaywoodie]

Mike, your the second person who brought up the subject of a Sedgely. I wished it were such a gun. But it is unmarked and I figure it is simply an old sporter someone assembled in the 20's or 30's. It originally had the Redfield # 70 sight on it, and I went ahead and placed it on the other Krag. Also some dolt had epoxied the top to a Lyman (sans dovetail) 17 A front sight on it!!! Well that certainly had to come off!!! I don't have a clue what they were thinking!

It is my understanding that Sedgely Krags are extremely few and far between.

[Mike]

Sedgley re-barreled some Krags to .25/35 but, no, I've never seen one. My Sedgley sporter in .270 was a very handsome rifle. Yes, I sold it too quickly. Shoot sharp, Mike

[Kaywoodie]

There was also a 25 Krag wildcat cartridge. Dunno if anyone like Sedgely or someone else offered a rifle in the ctg.

[Mike]

There was also a 25 Krag wildcat cartridge. Dunno if anyone like Sedgely or someone else offered a rifle in the ctg.

Woodie, I think the .25 Krag was mostly used in single shots like the Highwall more than in a bolt gun. Even so, it barely had the velocities of the .250/3000. So, I guess Krag rifle would hold it. Shoot sharp, Mike

[Kaywoodie]

Well that makes good sense!

[Mike]

Newton was one of the shooters playing with the .25 Krag and when Savage asked him to design the .250/3000 he began using a shortened Krag case at first. But the rim on the Krag case was too large to work comfortably through the Savage 99 action so the shortened '06 case was used. I'm afraid I could talk a long time about .250s. Quite the little rifle. Shoot sharp, Mike