The 788 had other durability problems as well, but not across the board. 308 Win loads with no problems, others suffered from lug setback or shearing with any top end. Unfortunately that wasn't possibile in mass production, so while some are stronger than equivalent Mauser type designs, and handled almost all.
If the locking lugs of a 788 are carefully lapped into their seats for full contact of all lugs that action would lock up like a bank vault. The 788 being another action of great promise hampered by short comings in manufacture.
The magazine design should work well with a rear locking bolt such as that of the 788. The majority of the old Winchester lever action chamberings should work fine in the Krag.īarring that, since product liability might still scare off manufacturers, adapting the Krag side loading magazine to a stronger lock up bolt would also be cool. Manufactured of modern high strength alloys with the possible machining errors taken into account and dealt with, and chambered only for those still highly effective classic cartridges that remain within pressure limitations of the design. The Krag is one action I'd really like to see revived for sporting rifle purposes. One I remember was a single shot conversion in. The front lug was despensed with and the safety lug used as the sole locking lug. I can remember seeing custom Krag actioned rifles chambered for less intense cartridge that had been modified much like the action used in the test. The same lack of radius caused failures of many SIG auto pistol frames some years back, and failure of the early. Theres suposed to be a very tiny radius rather than a sharp corner. The problem was traced to a too sharp angle at the cut. Years ago I read of some FN manufactured Mauser bolts failing at the left hand locking lug where the slot for the ejector was cut. Another factor is the quality of the machining. Inconsistencies in heat treatment can ruin the strongest designs. No doubt the color varied with the available light. Heat treating wasn't much of a science then, get it hot enough to look this color, then quench it. I have a receiver, serial #13,000 something that is brittle and cracked behind the locking recess. On the other hand, some who lapped the locking lock so that the bolt guide would bear on the receiver have experienced cracks where the receiver in the link broke.
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