Fletch42 wrote on Dec 12^th, 2018 at 12:34am:

Hello, just got my first krag! New to the boards and of course I have questions. Specifically if anyone knows where I can get a lock for an 1898 bayonet. I have the bayonet, spring and the actual button, but can't locate a lock for it anywhere! Really hoping not to have to cannibalize it from another. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Welcome to the kragdom.  Pull up an ammo crate and sit a spell

You might as well get a complete bayonet instead of running down windmills.  Chances are, there are more loose bayonets with scabbards than the one part you seek.

Soooooo.  Tell us about the rifle.  Is it pretty?  (in my worst valley girl lingo)

Do ya have enough ammo?  Remember you can never have TOO MUCH ammo.  Only ammo you haven't got around to shootin' jest yet.

I measure the worth of a man by the amount of ammo the next of kin has to sell off after he is dead.    I'm not talking two packs of twenty-two long rifle and a few boxes of twelve gauge bird loads.  I'm talking tonnage. :o ;)

Seriously, Grab a case of ten boxes and learn to reload if you do not already have that skill set.  Don't go through a Great Barky Dry Spell (Grrrrrrrrr >:() like many of the other Krag owners.