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Title: 1896 Carbine
Post by milgunsguy on Jun 9^th, 2013 at 2:23am

This 1896 Carbine has the late, short stock with no saddle ring.

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Title: Re: 1896 Carbine
Post by butlersrangers on Jun 9^th, 2013 at 11:45am

milgunsguy: That's a nice looking carbine. What is the serial number? Does it have a stock 'cartouche'?

Title: Re: 1896 Carbine
Post by milgunsguy on Apr 1^st, 2018 at 2:40pm

I believe this to be one of the 736 short forearm/no sling bar 1896 carbines assembled in 1901 as described by Brophy in "The Krag Rifle" on page 54.

The receiver is marked "1896" without the word "model".

There is no boxed date-and-initials cartouche on the left side of the stock. There is a circle-P in the usual location.

The serial number is 33,xxx.

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Title: Re: 1896 Carbine
Post by milgunsguy on Apr 2^nd, 2018 at 2:24am

I can only get one photo on each post so just one more:

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