Cool but too rich for my blood!
Wow thanks for posting....it would be cool to find old treasure!
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I pretty sure the troops used Springfield Armory 1896's or 98's down in Cuba in .30-40 Krag but didn't know Roosevelt brought his own 1895. It was after this "conflict" that the Army deemed the .30-40 wasn't quite suitable and thus the .30-06 was born. The US gov't then sold many of the surplus SA's to the public and most of them were sporterized for hunting. I happen to have one that had been sporterized many years before I acquired it and I can attest it is a great deer gun but I would hesitate to use it on elk. If I'm not mistaken the .30-30 has better ballistics as far as knock down power.
I am going off my memory on all of this so there may be an error or two. If so I apologize.