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Message started by Aslan77 on Feb 2nd, 2019 at 9:26pm

Title: Re: Need help identifying a parkerized krag
Post by Whig on Feb 2nd, 2019 at 9:41pm
It's always nice to have new members bring interesting Krags into the picture. Congrats on becoming a Krag owner.

Two quick observations I can make. I'm sure you'll get lots of feedback, good and bad.

One is that I have never heard of any "official" parkerization done on any Krag parts. Springfield Armory, if anything like that were to have been done, would have polished the metal and done a nice even parkerization. This one, excuse my French, looks like crap. I have some parked military and non military firearms and none of them look uneven like yours does. I think it is a job by someone named "Bubba".

The other observation is that if the rifle and bayonet are parkerized and have been sold as a lot, chances are that someone did these as a project together. Bayonets were not parkerized and rifles usually don't officially have a bayonet tagging along after them. Any Krag bayonet could have been used with any Krag rifle.

But, these are quick observations. Take them with others' opinions, too.

How is the bore? Outside appearance has nothing to do with how good of a shooter it may be. Hopefully yours is in that category of being a wonderful shooting Krag like many of us have!

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