>>64271647
It's a bit like a hopper, you drop in loose cartridges and when you close the door, they (usually) arrange themselves in a proper feeding order.
This is like, perfectly fine for a hunting rifle, and surplus Krags would become quite liked as hunting rifles in the U.S later on, but in a time period where everyone else was rocking rifles which took stripper clips or Mannlicher clips, the rifle is militarily dated.