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Firearms >> U.S. Military Krags >> 1898 Krag Missing Serial # Question http://www.kragcollectorsassociation.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1507732472 Message started by Marksc on Oct 11^th, 2017 at 2:34pm

Title: Re: 1898 Krag Missing Serial # Question
Post by Local Boy on Oct 15^th, 2017 at 9:02pm

As a cost saving measure, military units would sometimes use rifle caliber rounds (sub caliber) for artillery practice. A specialized receiver would be attached to the artillery piece for that purpose.