You may need to take the peep sight off to get it out of the way. Pry up (USE YOUR FINGERS NOT A TOOL!!) the extractor until it clears the bridge, swing it to the right and turn the bolt up until the lug slips thru the extractor gap in the bridge, and it will slide out into your hands. When you pull the trigger, get your right shoulder as high as you can, never mind comfort. As I can tell you, a Krag is a shoulder dislocator even with the rubber, worse by some then a Mosin-Nagant. You should consider replacing the rubber one. Mine is also rubber, installed by the same hammerhead that did the peep sight. You can find all sorts of basic info with a quick google. Don't ask how I know this I did it before my brain finished congealing. There is one spring in it, and it is POTENT. When the extractor has been lifted about 1/8' to 1/4' turn the bolt handle slightly to the left (open more) and pull bolt to the rear. Hold the bolt handle with your right hand, and lift up on the extractor directly above the locking lug. On the top of the bolt, near the firing pin, is certainly a cut that runs many of the duration of the bolt. You will hate yourself, trust me on this, if you don't have written directions in front of you when you take it apart. Open the bolt and pull all the way to the rear. Disassembly of the bolt is a non trivial task that I won't go into just now, but start with a good soak in brake cleaner, and we'll go from there. With the shroud off, I could turn the f.p, one quarter of a turn to the left and this allowed the f.p. They suck with a half life, but good enough for minute of oil drum at 150 yards. This permitted the shroud to turn about 10 degrees at a time until the shroud came off of the f.p. Damn peep won't go down far enough to zero at 100 yards, so I take it off for short range and use the battle sights. Some hammerhead put a peep sight on it, too. Click to expand.Pull the bolt all the way to the rear.

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