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Message started by ColoradoJohn on Mar 15th, 2019 at 1:51am

Title: Re: My Dad's Krag 1898
Post by Knute1 on Mar 15th, 2019 at 3:13am
The Krag Jorgensen U. S. military rifle originally had a 30" barrel, while the carbines had 22". When the Krags were being surplused to civilians the carbines fail into favor as sporting guns, but there were fewer of them. Many rifles were shortened to make them handy for hunting use as well. Most had there handguards removed and a lot of times different sights were incorporated better suited for hunting. Some received new stocks, but many had the original stocks modified. There were varying degrees of craftsmanship for the sporterized Krags.  All in all they made excellent hunting rifles at around a quarter of the cost of purpose made sporting rifles. It appears that you have a Krag military rear sight and a 1903 front sight on a cut down Krag rifle with an original modified stock

Many want to reverse the sporterizing of a Krag, but it could prove to be costly. Rejoice with the Krag in the configuration your Dad used it in for it likely served well as a hunting rifle for many years after its military service.

I see part of a cartouche in the bottom picture to the right. A close up picture of this would be of interest as well as any other markings.

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