Fire Me?

[9.3mauser]

Its a. 30 Us army so 30-40 i think... I can strip anything I gunsmith 1911s on my free time... I also have a complete x ray breakdown of this rifle

You do gunsmithing and you can't figure out if it's safe to fire??

 

[Liquid_Snake]

I am not a gunsmith for old levers I said i know 1911s. Please read before you add to your post count.. I need one receiver screw all i can see missing

 

[AP]

If it's a 30/06 i d have the headspace checked as the action is known for stretching in that cal as the metals then aren t as strong as they are today and a steady diet of 30/06 ammo could have affected the headspace after all these years.I have a winchester/Miroku 1895 carbine replica in 30/06 and they can handle the cartridge no problem do to the modern steels but even so I would rather not run hot rounds through it, I would leave that my bolt action

OP says

Its a. 30 Us army so 30-40 i think

... interesting and PLEASE DO NOT interpret this to apply to the rifle in question!! I have a couple of Newton rifles and one of them has '.30 U S G ' marked on the barrel .... it is chambered for 30/06. FWIW it also has the original Pope rifling. These rifles are from early 1900's (probably around 1916/17)

 

[Potashminer]

Just found an American NRA website article - the .30-40 Krag was apparently also known as the ".30 US Army" and "then renamed Cal .30 Service (Krag) Cartridge Model 1898”. Seems to be some confusion what was the .30 US Government cartridge? - some Internet articles claiming that was the name for the .30-03 cartridge? Wikipedia reports that the .30-03 was also known as the .30-45?

I have a barrel for a Remington Model 20, with Remington 1926 date code, that is scroll marked "30 Springfield", then "1906" below that. It head spaces perfectly with SAAMI GO and NOGO 30-06 gauges, attached to a BSA sporter receiver made from M1917. Probably made perfect sense to those involved at the time.

Again from Wikipedia, "The .30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced "thirty-aught-six"), 7.62×63mm in metric notation and called ".30 Gov't '06" by Winchester,..."

 

[Why not?]

If it's a 30/06 i d have the headspace checked as the action is known for stretching in that cal as the metals then aren t as strong as they are today and a steady diet of 30/06 ammo could have affected the headspace after all these years.....

Just curious where you got this information from?

Ted

 

[Akaen]

yeah absolutely i would, as long as the internals arent rusted and it was in good shape i'd shoot her.

 

[220]

Do a carasafe casting of chamber then measure to be sure of caliber

 

[Liquid_Snake]

Its definitely not a 30-06. Those have different markings on the barrel... Im gonna try a snap cap first

 

[iron cat]

If it is stamped " 30 U.S." then it is a 30/40 Krag, run some Hoppes or G96 through it and giver 'er bullets!
Cat

 

[9.3 Hunter]

She? That's a 'He' if in 405 Win. 30cal - it's in trans mode ... If in great shape I'd be using it ...

 

[mbogo3]

I have a 28" barrel 1895 in .303 British. Shot .77" at 100 yards inspite of a slightly dark bore likely someone fired corrosive in it and didn't clean it way back when?

 

[Liquid_Snake]

Ouch corrosive is nasty stuff....