joey connors wrote on Apr 20^th, 2012 at 4:25pm:

i joined this site ten minutes ago, looking for info on my krag. low and behold the first one i see is identical, almost. is stamped 1917 on receiver has the same crown symbol on it BUT also has a swastika on the right side of barrel with an f in front and a 4 behind. 22 inch barrel and serial number is 118959. has a military type front sight on it that appears to accept a bayonet. has been in the family for years. my mothers uncle got it somewhere and my father had it in his gunbox for 40-50 years, he passed a few weeks ago and it was passed on to me. would love to know anything about it.

First, the swastika were a common used stamp on subcontracotr barrel maker long before ww2. Has nothing to do do ww2 or nazi influence seen on a norwegian krag made before 1943.

Your 1917 production were actually in service with Garden (The kings platoon in Oslo) in 1940. Garden were in heavy fighting with agenst the germans in their effort og protecting King Håkon and Crownprince Olav when they evacuated to Elverum   (You need to Login