Mark Sam wrote on May 14^th, 2012 at 2:36pm:

Mr. CLueless here again.....

Don't sweat either being clueless or making a lot of posts.  Ignorance isn't a bad thing, I'm ignorant in too many areas to enumerate, as it can be dispelled.  That is part of why boards like these exist.  Which also takes out the worry about too many posts - they're on topic so don't worry about that.



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Is the rear sight on my KRAG the wrong one?

As I mentioned in the other post:

"I once saw a trapdoor with a Krag sight mounted.  Now I can tally the reverse."

The rear sight on your rifle is the Model of 1879 "Buckhorn."  While appropriate for a Trapdoor it was never used on Krags.  Given most of the Model of 1892 rifles (there is no Model of 1894 US Krag - they're marked "1894" but are Model of 1892s) were altered to 1896 format they received Model of 1896 sights at that time.  This resulted in a lot of no longer needed Model of 1892 sights and they're not hard to find.  Further, given the limited number of unaltered 1892s, they're the most inexpensive Krag sight found.  Yes, it would be good to acquire one as it's not much of an expense.


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and don't I already have a "cutoff"?

Your rifle is missing the cut-off.  The proper cut-off for that rifle is the "flat spring" edition but those are scarce.  Installing a later "round spring pin" one would be fine.  Note that there are quite a few cut-offs as they changes as they went - you need the 1892 edition.