psteinmayer wrote on Oct 21^st, 2016 at 11:34am:

Looks like a very nice shooter.  It should provide you with years of fun!  One question... in another thread, you stated that you had a correct carbine barrel.  Is the receiver marked 1898 or 1899?  If it's 1899, then it is definitely a carbine receiver... but if it's 1898, then it's definitely a rifle receiver.  You didn't state which.  Sometimes, a competent gunsmith would reattach the Krag front sight post after cutting the rifle barrel down to carbine length.  If yours is not a true carbine receiver, is it possible that the post has been reattached?  Just curious...

The receiver is definitely an 1898.I'll get some pics of the front sight.They also turned down the first 1/2 inch of the barrel and nobody seems to know why,but they were all like this?They were supposedly movie rifles,and mine had a brass insert in the magazine that prevented loading.