The grand reveal of the drawer containing *eleven* Krag-Jorg receivers is the ultimate ending to this video, especially after you said "sorry, no pleasant ending," and is throwing me completely out of my chair.

This is what is known as a duffle cut. The reason it was cut is so that it will fit into a duffle bag. Sometimes servicemen would cut captued War trophies so that they could smuggle them home. If you check the stock you will probably find a matching cut under the barrel band.

@Milkmans_Son

6 ай бұрын

He mentions that in the first video.

@mzmadmike

6 ай бұрын

I've seen duffel cuts and have several, but never a barrel. Pulling it out of the action should let it fit. I've got Carcanos, Mausers, Arisakas, all stock cut. I suspect this was "deactivated" for local ordinance. Quite a few guns in NYC are like this. If they did cut both, it means the owner never intended to use it. It's possible to rejoin a cut barrel--we've done it--but it's a long and involved process.

@michaelkaiser1864

5 ай бұрын

Duffle cuts are only stocks

@johnmorris4753

5 ай бұрын

Back in the early 90s, I worked on a ww2 veteran's oil furnace. While in the basement, I noticed a really old riffle sitting on a shelf that had been cut in two. Both the barrel and the stock. I asked the man about it. He told me that it was cut so it would fit in his duffle bag when he returned from the war. He called it a duffle cut. You may have seen more of them than I have, but I can honestly say I saw one that had both the barrel and stock cut to fit into a duffle bag. This riffle was a flintlock muzzle loader. When they cut it, they even cut the ramrod.

@Interdiction

5 ай бұрын

My old man brought back an M1 carbine complete aside from the barrel being off and taped to the stock . Never found out where it ended up shame

You’re lucky you got a useable barrel out of it! Great work.

Absolutely fascinating process. You turned what was probably a "drill rifle" and wall hanger into a shooter. Extremely well done, sir!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊

The usual ploy was to drive an aluminium rod down the barrel using a mallet. Aluminium rod may be pulled out or punched out using a bronze driver that slips easily into the bore, if the barrel is soaked in boiling water to expand it a little without destroying the heat treatment.

@reaper_exd7498

5 ай бұрын

That's what's going on here! Thank you. Was wondering what happened here.

The ole foot against vice technique 😁

omfg. You're worse than I am. That drawer shot is amazing. People give me shit for having 4 Krag receivers sitting around. But that is another level.

Bonsoir, if you really want to make this carbine (and you don't find enought parts in the US) the guy I bought my carbine from is importing them directly from Danemark. And thus he has a lot of parts that are not regulated (like barrel shroud for carbines, the 1889/24 sight, original stocks...)

I would imagine that the barrel was cut as part of the deactivation process, in theory ensuring that it couldnt be used again even if the plug was removed

12:45 Dang dude save some for the rest of us lol. Great work.

This was an absolute pleasure to watch. Thank you for sharing and excellent work.

The idea of a Krag Jorgensen carbine in 6.5 swede sounds so cool. Definitely something i would love to have

@andylipscomb5199

29 күн бұрын

Yes. But I recently read of a gentleman who revarreled his M1 Garand in 6.5 Swede. It's definitely a project I'd consider for the reduced recoil.

I think this just became my favorite channel!

As to why the barrel was cut, I dont know. However there have been cases of Dutch Mannlichers that had big holes drilled in the barrels mid section, under the handguards in order to "booby trap" them for invading German soldiers in WW2

@Mittensvr702

7 ай бұрын

Awesome history fact!

@GetTheFO

7 ай бұрын

Curious if a portion of those holes were in the same fashion as the British Enfields that had holes drilled; they were all prominently marked “DP” for drill purpose only.

@Cesko_Plny_Fialovejch_Zmrdu

7 ай бұрын

I don't know where you get that information but drilling holes in the barrels mid section has been requirement for deactivation since like 1970 up till 2014 in most European countries. Originally there was three holes in the size of the bore usually put on the underside of the barrel since thats least vidible place. later law changed and three holes in the size of outer dimension of the barrel + welded chamber and bolthead cut by 45 degrees appeared. Since early 2000s every functional part of the weapon has to be welded shut. Anyway it has nothing to do with traps and certainly nothing with ww2. Especially since hole in the barrel will not make it explode unless theres some obstruction added to it. Automatic Glocks have holes in the barrels by factoryfor example

@bad74maverick1

7 ай бұрын

@@GetTheFO The P14 barrels with holes in the chamber have a way to be safely repaired since spare original barrels on the surplus market are gone. The Dutch booby trap barrels can be too, though it's a different process. The bobby trap barrels were usually in the down position in the forearm area. The reason for this is when fired the barrel would literally detonate the stock sending wood and hot gases at thousands of PSI into the hand and or arm of the shooter, rendering him useless for battle at that moment, and possible permanently.

@GetTheFO

7 ай бұрын

@@bad74maverick1 Interesting! I’d never read that they’d intentionally made holes like that with the intent of being an anti-personnel method, looks like I’ve got new reading to do!

you could send the barrel to a good gunsmith and have both parts threaded and timed for the rifling, it has been done before. Ive seen that done on a video where someone tested a 44" barrel, they were testing for muzzle velocity but idk which caliber. with this process you may lose about 1" of barrel length but you can also thread the muzzle and add a sacrificial 1" steel piece to extend the barrel to the original length

@garygruber1452

7 ай бұрын

I have done threading projects like this. They require a very fine pitch (28 DPI or greater). The problem is chucking the barrel for turning and threading. the taper in the barrel makes it more difficult to align, but it can be done. If you are really good and take your time, the connection will be invisible -- you will not be able to see or feel it. Expect to pay a price for this kind of premium work.

Very nice! Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to sleeve fabrication video.

Can't wait to the the carbine version of this rifle using the shorter barrel, I bet it will look cool.

Если бы возникли трудности с алюминиевой пробкой,можно было бы использовать ртуть. Она "съедает" алюминий,а стали вреда не наносит.

Again, excellent work.

Fantastic job. Fascinated only because I was born in Denmark. But now you have my attention. Love, old rifles.

Something strange about that barrel. The end with the chamber looked like it was sawed off, but the bore had a chamfer, which could require a lathe. If set up in a lathe, then it should have been parted on the lathe. And if you look at the other end (the extension), it looks like it was parted with a lathe. I bet this was originally a 22" barrel and someone only restored it to hang on the wall by adding an extension from a damaged long barrel. That would also explain why the barrels did not line up. I'm 99% sure these are two different barrels and 80% sure, your 22" barrel was original for another rifle.

@rakumprojects

7 ай бұрын

Maybe it's the video but the chamber end is smooth and there were some tool marks on the cut end.

My late father had a never issued M1889 carbine stamped 1941. It was in immaculate condition, both the stock and all the blueing. I don't know when he got rid of it, but there were no guns left when he went to the retirement home.

@rakumprojects

6 ай бұрын

Nice! An artillery or infantry carbine is on my list of guns to have. A few of the bare receivers at the end of the video are dated 1941

Beautiful work!

I've uses some pretty tiny boring bars. Obviously, depth of cut is a real driver of speed, but if you were hoping for concentricity I think one would've been just fine (though not as fast, obviously).

Thanks for the video :o) Was nicely detailed and interesting to watch. Easily got my thumbs up!

Very nice work!

I'm a new subscriber I can't wait to see all of your videos thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and GOD-BLESS

Just found your channel and Subscribed. Very nice work

A fine, fine job, thank you so much.

Fascinating, thank you!

😂❤ yes you're actually doing it when you swapped out the barrels before I was kind of let down cuz I thought you were just going to trash that Barrel subscribed

@allen725 - What dicktionary are you using that those are two 'different things'. Except for the fabric and the town in Belgium, both spellings are for the same thing. Are you inferring that it was cut so it could leave Duffel, Belgium ? Or so it could be wrapped in 'duffel' fabric?

It was probably brought home from war (explaining the duffle cut) and was plugged at home using aluminum. Maybe whoever brought it home had kids or grand kids and didn't want them loading it and accidentally shooting it so they filled it melted aluminum from empty cans

Gallium. It destroys aluminum. I've seen videos by 'LockPickingLawyer' where he shows what Gallium can do to the body of an aluminum lock.

@rakumprojects

7 ай бұрын

Never heard of it, interesting. I'm sure that would have been useful if the whole bore was plugged.

@dkeith45

7 ай бұрын

Here's one to watch: [593] Gallium vs. Titalium - Abus Padlock Meets a Gruesome End@@rakumprojects

@rakumprojects

7 ай бұрын

​@@dkeith45very interesting video, thanks for the recommendation!

@flyrightflight

6 ай бұрын

I don’t think its gallium because it has a very low melting point.

@dkeith45

6 ай бұрын

Well, the melting point of Gallium is 85 - 86 degrees F@@flyrightflight

Real cool and informative video

awesome view on the rifling. this video is top shelf youtube

A barrel plugged with aluminium would retain its original balance / weight as opposed to lead ...just guessing..🤔

@rakumprojects

7 ай бұрын

Hmm, I hadn't thought of that. Could have been used for re-enacting

that was some great looking rifling, the only rifles i have that can shoot are a Chassepot needle rifle and a Swedish field hunter(fältjägare) M/1815-20 .70 cal short rifle. both have the correct model bayonets(both are short swords!). the rifling in those rifles are what you would expect from, one being well kept and survived a war and the other has survived time in target practice, both using black powder and corrosive caps. I don't know anyone here in the nordics who use a Krag but i bet they are used for sports or are sitting forgotten in many old Norwegians gun lockers. Back in the day there was a surplus of K98 rifles after the war and you could go to Norway to get one very cheap and original or converted to other common calibers as 6.5mm, 30-06, or 9.3mm and other calibers. must have been a tremendous amount of surplus rifles of any kind from the war that was brought home and unfortunately "sporterized".

@rakumprojects

6 ай бұрын

I've heard Krags are very cheap in Norway and Denmark, but I assume that's partially due to the requirements to own them.

@rakumprojects

6 ай бұрын

I haven't ventured into muzzle loading or paper cartridge breechloaders.. yet. Last gun show I went to an acquaintance showed me the Kammerlader he recently got. Now I need one of those!

@kremepye3613

5 ай бұрын

Krags are literally everywhere in Norway, check out finn

@kremepye3613

5 ай бұрын

​@rakumprojects alot of them have been run through and aren't accurate anymore

I would use a hydraulic press but what you did worked fine also. Good save on an old firearm. I have a friend who got a machine gun that was deactivated by the US government that had been sliced right through the receiver. He was able to weld the two sections back together. The gun functions normally and the only noticeable indication that it was welded back together is the fact that the metal he used is a bit different than the receiver metal. Thee bolt was also put back together the same way.

Nice collection of receivers in that drawer! Had to sell my collection of parts and firearms when I moved away from the states. They are so anal here that an empty cartridge case can get you into big trouble. I even had to modify my .308 cigar punch with three holes in the case just in case they were ever to see it and make a stink about it. The primer hole had been drilled out to allow a screw through to hold the walnut handle I turned for it.

Great job!

Do you think counter boring would be viable for some of the guns coming out of Ethiopia that have rifling but completely shot out muzzles?

@rakumprojects

7 ай бұрын

As long as the rifling is only damaged at the crown, yes. Problem is that most RTI rifles have rust and pitting throughout the whole bore.

@krockpotbroccoli65

7 ай бұрын

@rakumprojects Sounds like I need lathe... A good few of the rifles I've gotten from them have what appear to be serviceable bores, but the muzzles fail the bullet test, and they shoot a little wonky, but not keyholing all over the place either.

Awesome man!!!!❤

Thats a great save, and now you hve an alternative barrel. .

Good job!

Such a shame so much of the world doesnt have enough trust in its fellow man to allow ownerships of firearms. No weapon should be "deactivated". Especially not old ones.

Renactor needed a safe rifle but didn't want extra weight of lead?

Fascinating. Makes me rethink an eddystone barrel sitting around here

@bad74maverick1

7 ай бұрын

Is it just plugged? that's easy. If the chamber is drilled there is a safe way now to repair DP barrels that have an otherwise mint bore. Australians who cannot get barrels and have DP rifles which have to be registered as real guns and licensed the same came up with a way.

@herrcobblermachen

7 ай бұрын

@@bad74maverick1 Yep the bore is just plugged. Its not one of the UK DP rifles that are bored out laterally at the chamber. People say that rods were welded into the barrel. If its just lead tho that would be fantastic. Ill dig it out and have a look and see what I have! Tell me about the method you're describing, would love to hear more!

@bad74maverick1

7 ай бұрын

@@herrcobblermachen I am actually thinking about doing a youtube channel on the process on my other (new not started) gun channel. So: Pull the barrel first. Get a section of .303 barrel or .30 caliber barrel (fal, bad M1 whatever, .303 is preferable), turn down the outside of the section just until it's flat, no contours. Bore out the barrel chamber to the case mouth the same ID as the OD of the barrel stub. Thread the holes on either side of the chamber. Cut the barrel section the length of the bored out chamber to the face of the chamber if it's a little long no problem we can turn it to factory chamber face specs. Press in the stub into the chamber (make sure it's a somewhat tight pressing). Silver solder the stub in place. Counter sink the stub on either side inside the threaded chamber holes. Run set screws in each side of the chamber holes and crank them down as hard as they will go. Weld over the chamber holes making sure a good solid weld with the set screws, not just on top of them. Chamber ream the barrel, check the chamber face, cut the extractor groove and reinstall the barrel. It sounds like a lot of work but it's not bad. Plus most of the DP P-14's are numbers matching and mint condition, not to mention good luck finding a loose barrel on the surplus market!

The aluminum probably just transfered onto the lands. Did you give any consideration to hand lapping the affected area before counter boring the barrel. Just a thought

You could try to mess up the aluminum with gallium that makes aluminum soft and stuff like that

That's pretty cool. Do you know of any good places to source deactivated weapons from?

@rakumprojects

7 ай бұрын

Nothing in particular. I got the rifle from a dealer that mostly sells C&R firearms

Would that ring cause any real accuracy issues? I have milsurp rifles with infinitely more bore damage that are tolerable.

@rakumprojects

7 ай бұрын

I'm not sure if it would. I also have some rifles with worse bores that shoot ok, including one with a bulged barrel. But since the ring was so close to the end, counter boring as a prevention measure wasn't too hard.

I love your parts drawer man.

I wonder if that was zinc?

Depending on the rifling accessibility, if you could find a correct rifling die, you could [have / for future reference] potentially shift the die through the rifling until the cut, leaving it midway, basically screwing the one section onto the other. That way you might have a (nearly) guaranteed correct alignment Admittedly im not sure if i would trust a welded together barrel, but if you had a merging method you were confident with that would be a valid option Hope this helps or inspires a better idea! (You could, if you know the specs of the rifling, even make a die for it to perform the process, though thats a lot more work)

there is a aluminum look a like with which you can cast to determine chamber diameter; maybe that was used to plug chamber

@bbhunting1

7 ай бұрын

I think its called Cero-safe. Not sure if thats the correct spelling.

@rakumprojects

7 ай бұрын

Cerrosafe. It's around the same consistency as lead so that drill bit would have eaten right into it.

Have you thought of using gallium on the aluminum to get it out? I don't think it interacts with steel so it might work to get the aluminum out

U're lucky in Germany for example, a deactivated/pluggedgun would be drilled into the chamber and a steelrod welded into the drillhole. Same thing at the muzzle and added to this, the barrel would be drilled or cut by the diameter of the bullet and lengths of 2inches, right behind the chamber. No way to fix such a demil.

I'm curious, with the front half of the barrel can it be reused again? Like maybe make a homemade gun with it?

@rakumprojects

5 ай бұрын

It could be made to work for some sort of pistol cartridge where the bullet diameter matches the bore. The outside diameter is too small to cut a chamber for a rifle cartridge

😂nice job.. thanks for sharing!

The barrel was probably deactivated and cut because of EU/Danish laws, guns laws are extremly strict here, and most firearms (if not a a single shot hunting rifle) needs to be deactivated for either museum decorations, or if you as a private person wants to own any kind of old or new firearm. hope this helps

can i take the forward end of the barrel kind sir?

Wow imagine you got a welded chamber atleast 3 holes and another weld in the barrel then a bolt stripped of its pin grinded off the front and welded in place

@rakumprojects

7 ай бұрын

I'm lucky this rifle didn't have that done to it. Those are well beyond repair

Drilling throws burrs into an existing bore. You need to get in there with tool makers hones to chamfer the rifling. That's why a boring bar would have been the right tool to use. Set your cross slide at 30-45deg and chamfer the rifling as the last operation.

@rakumprojects

6 ай бұрын

Any recommendations for a boring bar rigid enough? The only thing I have small enough is a cheap set of brazed carbide, so I'd need a new tool anyway.

@kevinspacey5325

6 ай бұрын

@@rakumprojects Do you have a steam account so we could talk? or telegram, or skype? is there a private messaging system we could use? I'd be more that willing to explain over a voip call. . . .

Hi, Krag Jørgensen is a Norwegian rifle. Can you find the production marks? Best regards, Annie

@rakumprojects

6 ай бұрын

This one was made in Denmark. Denmark and the US also produced and used Krag rifles in addition to Norway.

What other goodies are in those sliding drawers, looks like you have plenty of future projects in there.

@rakumprojects

6 ай бұрын

I have a bunch of things tucked away. Just need the time and parts to build

That worked out well. 🙂

Man, I need a krag drawer

Try using bore paste to lap it out.

Where do you purchase deactivated guns? Might be interested to get a deactivated gun myself.

@rakumprojects

6 ай бұрын

Any gun shop in the US will sell deactivated guns alongside functional guns since they require the same licenses/paperwork to own

@SomeRandomPolishGunFanatic

6 ай бұрын

@@rakumprojects do you perhaps know where or how you can get one in Europe?

@rakumprojects

6 ай бұрын

@@SomeRandomPolishGunFanatic I wouldn't know. And judging from other comments, Europe has much stricter laws regarding deactivating firearms

Wait Wait! Dont through that barrel section away. It will make some nest single shot derringers!

@rakumprojects

7 ай бұрын

I'll definitely keep it. I can't think of too many 8mm caliber pistol cartridges it could be chambered in, maybe 8mm French Ordinance.

@rastenborg

7 ай бұрын

The 32 ACP has been used. They sell chamber adapters from Alaska that shot cartridges from rifle barrels.. I'd guess a lower powered 32 would make for some interesting projects. That could be a single shot Carbine. I'm not that familiar with the cartridge. Clynsrs does sale chamber reamers so that fabrication remains a popular use for old barrels. No real sense in it as everything is there already but fun. Many likely turned into silencesd rifles by counterboring and adding suppression holes. Indeed I'd wonder how many curios and relics have been modified into pistols and WWII style specialty weapons.

@rastenborg

7 ай бұрын

8mm Nambu is produced as well.

@nono-jj9rr

7 ай бұрын

@@rakumprojects would make a really neat .40 S&W/10mm barrel.

Now you got it out anyway. But when hearing it was aluminium i thought about gallium.

If the front end of the barrel had actually been welded on, I thought you might be able to bore it out and reline the whole barrel.

@rakumprojects

7 ай бұрын

It's possible. Relining a rifle barrel is a lot of work though, outside of my skill set and tooling unfortunately.

@bad74maverick1

7 ай бұрын

Relining a smokeless powder rifle barrel is almost impossible, save for small caliber, rimfire and black powder, especially if cut in two. A drilled hole is different, but still takes a competent gunsmith. Cartridges with lower pressures are okay but military calibers are not. A perfect example of this is the Italian Vetterlli conversions to 6.5×52 during WW1. A fine gun using black powder, not designed for smokeless and shouldn't be shot with it, so hand loads only. A high powered rifle barrel is the same, even lined it is an easy breaking point.

i wonder if firing a couple of rounds would have taken out the marks

Amazing!

Considering the fact there's already a slight crown on the barrel, I'm guessing it was either already a carbine barrel, or was previously cut down to one.

@Mihail2204

4 ай бұрын

I think that was just to deburr it, because that does not seem like a crown

I have an idea barrel liner if you drill out the old rifle in both sections of the barrel. Weld the 2 barrels together Drill out the rifling And insert barrel liner. whole length of the barrel.

I would have tried lapping the bore before resorting to counter boring it. I'm thinking most of the ring would have been smooth enough to not be a problem with accuracy and / or copper fouling. If it didn't work, then counter boring would have been the last option. After counter boring, if you take a ball-bearing slightly smaller than the counter bore and weld it to a rod, then use a little bit of valve lapping compound you can remove any roughness from the end of the rifling.

@rakumprojects

6 ай бұрын

I didn't want to affect the rest of the rifling trying to remove the ring, thats why I didn't try lapping. The ball bearing in lapping compound is a good tip, I might just try that out to remove any burrs

I'd think a lot of chamber-end plugs could be removed by using a sub-caliber drill bit to drill out the center of the plug to weaken it.

Good Video

great video.👍👍👌👌

If the barrel was simply cut, why is the muzzle look like it has a cut crown? If it was just cut it wouldn't have a crown...

@rakumprojects

5 ай бұрын

I'm not sure why there's a crown. I think maybe it was done to center the aluminum plug before hammering it in

could you show how to reactivate a barrell complelety filled with lead?

@rakumprojects

7 ай бұрын

I'd like to since that was the plan with this video initially. I'd have to find one first though

Punch and drill is genius. Lead is grabby and horrible to drill, while aluminum is ... not. Good brain usage.

When my bore was plugged, i just had my man Raul ream it out real good

Nice!

Wow now thats a amazing videoband collection. I refuse to believe you dont have enough to make another something. But wow looks great

:D Vive la your new old rifle!

Well it fits in the drawer good!👍🏽😀❤️🇺🇸

It would be much quicker to drive a round in as far as possible , and fire it😂. I've seen shotguns that had dirt in the barrel shot. It's amazing at the wild shapes they make when the barrel burst. I worked in a machine shop. People would bring in guns that had been in all sorts of mean , nasty things done to them.

The question being tho, if a fire arm is deacrivated, does activating it make it manufactured again

@Mihail2204

4 ай бұрын

Yes

you should make a single shot rifle with it

Unless I'm not reading your measurements right, a live shell could have been chambered in this rifle. That would have made this a death trap waiting to happen. Good job.

Zinc alloy mixture ..??

I was thinking it be pretty to make the end as a muzzle brake extra peace on top some treads redirecting up n sideways might kick allot less but adds less pressure to already short barell yet may be fun to make video of that

@rakumprojects

6 ай бұрын

Not a bad idea. But for these rifles I try to keep them as original as possible

@johnycash978

6 ай бұрын

@@rakumprojects I respect an authentic view it's nice to be looking original n well kept but great video seen the last got this recommended I like your job great work 🙂 and you do be doing great job too the fewer well kept and remain working as much as you can restore the work off you do an amazing job thanks for the content

Re commissioning de activated weapons does collectors no favours. It just increases the restrictions, to the point here in Ireland where it is virtually impossible to decommission any gun.

Don't throw away that piece of bbl, you could make a silhouette gun with it. Or sleeve it down & make a decent zip gun, legally of course 😊

How much you wanna bet some dude just melted down beer cans to plug this

It might have been plugged with zinc, low melting point but hard as nails

Won't there be a rough edge where the drill stopped in the bore? This is a inner crown so to speak and all crowns need De burring