Krag-Jorgensen Rifle

The Krag-Jorgensen is a repeating bolt-action rifle designed in the late nineteenth century by the Norwegians Ole Herman Johannes Krag and Erik Jorgensen, distinguished by a side-loading magazine that wraps around the bolt and is fed through a hinged door on the right side of the receiver, letting a soldier top off the magazine with loose rounds at any time without having to open the bolt or empty a clip first. Denmark adopted the design in 1889 and Norway followed in 1894, and the United States Army adopted its own chambering as its standard service rifle in the 1890s, while roughly three hundred examples also reached Boer forces during the South African War at the turn of the century. The rifle remained in front-line or reserve military service in various countries from its adoption in 1889 through the Second World War in 1945, with total production across all national variants reaching around seven hundred forty-eight thousand rifles manufactured chiefly at the Kongsberg arms factory in Norway.