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Firearms >> Sporterized and unofficial modified Krags >> krag bolt http://www.kragcollectorsassociation.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1553917013 Message started by singleshot on Mar 30^th, 2019 at 3:36am

Title: Re: krag bolt
Post by butlersrangers on Mar 30^th, 2019 at 4:08am

'Singleshot' - Welcome to the KCA Forum.

I suspect you mean that you have a U.S. Model 1898 or Model 1899 Krag that was made in 1902?

Most U.S. Krag bolts have a sequence of strange markings, capital letters, and number digits on the bolt handle.

These seem to be steel lot, production lot, or inspector marks.

As far as I know, the exact meaning has been lost in time and not 'decoded' by research of the last 75 years.