Gary Reeder
they weren't very popular when they
Thursday, August 20, 2020, 14:02

first came out. The first batch was chambered in 22 Hornet 30-40 and 45-70. The people that we sold them to bitched about the recoil in the 30-40 and 45-70 bashing their knuckles with that ungainly lever. The 22 Hornet didn't have the range for groundhog hunting, nor the killing power. Later they brought out the 223, 44 mag and 375 Winchester but the gun had sort of a bad rap by then and we had a hard time selling them.

Our dist. in Nashville had 20 of the 30-40 Krags left over that they couldn't sell and made me a great price on them if I would buy all of them. I thought it over for a day or two and then decided to do it. At the time I had a rifle in 300 H&H that I liked so I ordered a reamer and a bunch of butt pads and when the guns came in we rechambered them one at a time to 300 H&H, added a pad, marked them limited edition, one of 20, and put our deluxe bluing on them and turned them into a short range carbine with long range capabilities. After we did each one I said I was going to keep the next one and as typical I never did. I still wish I had kept one.