I just read on another forum where a person was asking if it was safe to fire blanks in a Low-numbered 1903.

This is what it has come down to and looks to stay that way for some time.

Something to think about.

The same workmen using the same equipment, same steel and same heat treating built a half-million Krag rifles yet I have never heard of one with burnt steel. All the warnings about Krags over the years have had to do with the single locking lug.



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