'Preston' - You ask good questions. We are all learning about Krags, by Reading, doing, and screwing up, once in a while.

No one is alive today, that built or re-built these things at U.S. Armories or Arsenals.

If you haven't looked, there is some real good information available on the KCA website main-page, under the tab 'photos'.

This schematic is found there:

p.s. - In my opinion, some assemblies were not intended to be needlessly taken apart. The Magazine cut-off (spindle & spring), follower & carrier arm and the Extractor & Extractor Spring, come to mind.

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