can i shoot modern ammo in a 1894 krag rifle

CAN I SHOOT MODERN AMMO IN A 1894 KRAG RIFLE CRACKED
CAN I SHOOT MODERN AMMO IN A 1894 KRAG RIFLE FULL

The way to find determine the culture of your company is raise a problem to management. Many here probably work for companies with unjust cultures. Tacitly they had to understand that some rifles would pass the higher pressure proof test and still fail in the field. Springfield Armory knew that it had a problem, and instead of figuring out why they making bad rifles, they simply raised the proof pressures at the end of the production line. They don’t want to know about their failures, they will shoot the messenger rather than figure out why they were making bad product. This shows non existent process controls and I really doubt things got better as Springfield Armory, in fact the whole Army, has an unjust culture. There is a 1917 Watertown report, in it there are metallurgical tests of single heat treat M1903’s, and at least one made it out the door with a receiver that was never heat treated! It blew up later. The last issue with Springfield Armory was that it is obvious the production line was out of control. It is likely the steels purchased during the single heat treat period were still being put into the production line, we just don’t know.

CAN I SHOOT MODERN AMMO IN A 1894 KRAG RIFLE FULL

As a part of the product process upgrades, Springfield Armory hired ten full time staff and created a Metallurgical department. Springfield Armory did not have an incoming materials inspection and so, vendors probably learned to ship their crappiest steel to the Army because Springfield Armory would buy it. This second issue with the low number receivers was the inconsistent materials used.

I am aware of one report of someone who died because of a single heat treat receiver failure, there are existing reports of military personnel who lost half their face, undoubtedly military personnel lost vision, hands, etc. They knowingly issued known defective product to their work force. I don’t consider this a calculated risk, I consider it immoral behavior. This was not done because it was cheaper to injury a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine, than to scrap and replace one million suspect rifles. An Army board in 1927 estimated that one third of the first one million rifles would fail in an overpressure situation and recommended scrapping all of the single heat treat receivers.

CAN I SHOOT MODERN AMMO IN A 1894 KRAG RIFLE CRACKED

Early on in the show cracked blades were tested, but so many came apart with sharp pieces flying around, that they won’t test a blade with a crack anymore. Experienced knife makers, put under time constraints, frequently over heat their billets. The Army was too cheap to buy the latest instrumentation and equipment and the end result was inconsistent heat treatments. Else where, human eyeballs judged temperature. The only pyrometer was used in heating springs. There were three real problems with the single heat treat receivers, the first was the lack of temperature devices in the forge shops or the heat treat ovens. There should have been a draw but there was not. The single heat treatment consisted of a heat and a quench. The single heat treatment would have produced acceptable receivers, though the double heat treatment was a superior heat treatment just as described by Hatcher. The whole affair shows serious incompetence, and by the Army Officer Corp, total negligence in the management and operation of Army Arsenals. They kept on emphasizing the heat treat when the problem they had was much larger and much more serious. The Army did a great job creating a misdirection that still stands today, over a century later. For example, how long ago were phones 3G? Anyone still using a flip top phone? Just how long ago was that? Material advancements were extremely rapid, paralleling in improvements, the advancements made since the semi conductor revolution. Also, plain carbon steels harden erratically just due to the nature of the material. The materials used in the single and double heat treat receivers are so cheap and low grade that today it is used for rebar and railroad spikes. The primary problem with these old receivers is metal fatigue. Shooting anything from the World War one era is a calculated risk.

Can i shoot modern ammo in a 1894 krag rifle