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Title: applying front sight
Post by magister on Apr 7^th, 2010 at 11:13pm

I am the proud new owner of my wife's grandfather's 1898 krag, which is in fine condition other than the fact that it has no front sight. I acquired a new repro front sight from S&S Firearms, but am having a devil of a time finding a gunsmith in the Philadelphia area that will mill the barrel and braze on the new sight. I had no idea it would be this hard. Can anyone help me with this? Failing that, I am willing to find a good gunsmith within say a 200 mile radius of Philadelphia. Thanks!

Title: Re: applying front sight
Post by TerryR on Apr 18^th, 2010 at 12:06pm

Go to gunbroker.com. Go to krag parts for sale. Go down thru the listings. There is a company advertising that they can do the Krag work needed to install new barrels, sights etc.
Hope this helps.
TerryR