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General >> Older threads >> Please help me in dating my rifle..... http://www.kragcollectorsassociation.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1317682894 Message started by goodwood on Oct 3^rd, 2011 at 11:01pm

Title: Re: Please help me in dating my rifle.....
Post by 5MadFarmers on Oct 6^th, 2011 at 12:04am

butlersrangers wrote on Oct 4^th, 2011 at 4:34am:

#349,589 would have been produced in October 1901

Highest U.S. Krag numbers were probably around 474,xxx

production ending around November 1903.

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An 1899 marked receiver should be a Carbine.

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I spotted you that one. The correct answer would have been: "all 1899 marked receivers were made as carbines but some were altered to short rifle format."