butlersrangers wrote on Apr 25^th, 2018 at 2:43am:

That is not a Springfield 1905 front-sight or Springfield Armory workmanship. It is similar to 'banded' front-sights sold and used by the Stokes Kirk Company in Philadelphia, back in the 1920s and 1930s. Stokes Kirk and Bannerman's turned out parts guns superficially resembling Armory produced 'School Rifles'. Some of these guns could have gone to movie prop companies or Veterans' organizations. It would be interesting to know how your Krag came to be in 'CMP hands'?

Yep, I should have said 1905 style sight, like I said, the CMP has sold a half dozen of these Krags in the same configuration over the last year and a half, I would not be surprised if they have more. I would love to know how the CMP got them as well. They are not terribly banged up like you would see in the conditions of school guns, I would say ex VFW guns, but maybe that had been stored somewhere for awhile. I know that I paid a premium for it from the CMP, but having a Krag with a CMP certificate is kind of neat.