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Message started by Knute1 on Mar 10th, 2018 at 1:11am

Title: Re: Model 1892 to 1896 Krag Jorgensen
Post by Knute1 on Jun 10th, 2018 at 8:32pm
In researching the "Expenditure at the Springfield Armory " reports, the following was found:

Fiscal year ending 6/30/1897 (as seen in the post above),
    3,508 magazine rifles altered to model of 1896 with model of 1892 extractors.
    2,800 magazine rifles, model of 1892, altered to model of 1892, second pattern.

Fiscal year ending 6/30/1898,
   No mention of model of 1892 alterations.

Fiscal year ending 6/30/1899,
    Report could not be found.

Fiscal year ending 6/30/1900,
    1,588 altered to model of 1896.

Fiscal year ending 6/30/1901 (as found in Chief of Ordnance Report),
    6,123 altered to model of 1896.

Fiscal year ending 6/30/1902,
    5,420 altered to model of 1896.

Fiscal year ending 6/30/1903,
    No alterations of model of 1892 shown.

This is only an opinion, and I know the horse has been beat to where there isn't even any pulp left, but:
What I can gather reading the various reports, once a model of 1892 was converted to model of 1896 it was then considered a model of 1896 and no longer a model of 1892 as far as the military was concerned. Somewhere I found a list in one of the reports showing what consisted of a conversion and I will post it if found again. Others likely already have this info.

I am quite confident that my particular rifle was converted in the 1897 fiscal year, but there does not appear to be any solid evidence.
   

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