Kongsberg Vapenfabrikk Krag-Jörgensen 1893 Complete Specs and Full Gun Specifications

Only about fifty Krag-Jorgensen rifles were produced in 1893 and issued to soldiers for field testing. Testing prooved that basic design was good and only few modifications were done. As result of testing and modifications, new Model 1894 rifle was born. The Krag-Jorgensen is a bolt action rifle designed by the Norwegians Ole Herman Johannes Krag (gun designer and director of the Kongsberg Vapenfabrikk) and Erik Jorgensen (gunsmith) in the late 19th century. They designed many submodels of famous Krag-Jorgensen rifle. As a successful gun design, Krag-Jörgensen rifle was adopted as a standard arm by Norway, Denmark and the United States of America. A distinctive feature of the Krag-Jorgensen action was its magazine that was loaded from a right hand side, not from above like Mauser rifles. On Mauser style rifles loading is done by using 5 rounds ammo clip and rounds are pushed from top down into the internal magazine. On Krag-Jorgensen rifle magazine is loaded through side opening hinged door, one round at the time, and pushed up, around, and into the action by a spring follower. The Krag-Jorgensen rifle has single locking lug at the front of the bolt, which locks into the receiver. The rifle had detachable bayonet. A total of more than 215,000 Krag-Jorgensen rifles and carbines were built at the Kongsberg Arms Factory in Norway. The Krag-Jorgensen rifle adopted by U.S. Army in 1893 were chambered in 30-40 Krag caliber and made by Springfield Armory. One of the reasons to adopt it was the fact that Krag-Jorgensen rifle was slower to reload and that believed to be advantage because it will save the ammo on battlefield. That belief was proven deadly for US soldiers in the Spanish-American War where they were outgunned by Spanish soldiers armed with faster loading, more powerful Mauser rifles. To rare to price.