Just picked up a krag sporter (probably) but trying to figure out what exactly it was in previous life.....  here's some pics:

OK - won't let me post pics in my first postt ....  will follow up :)


so the popular opinion (on CGN) is that it's a 1894 model cut down... receiver date & serial number support this. 

~however~

The M1894 had a 30" barrel, this has a 22.5" barrel (measured to the bolt face). if that were the case, the step and lug for the sight/bayo lug sleeve would not be there.

- does anyone know if any Norwegian Krags were sporterized in this manner, i.e all the extra machining to add the step and lug, then not use them???

- is that step and lug there actually to accept a nosecap?  The artillery & engineer carbines seemed to have such an arrangement.   (but the date and serial don't support this)

- does anyone know if Krags were modified into carbines around 1912? i.e. could this be a 1894 receiver rebarreled with a 1912 carbine barrel?


A lot of the discussion on CGN was also about an "importer" who imported about 50,000 of these in the 1950s and sportered them.....  anyone have any information on that?

-thanks
-sean