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Firearms >> U.S. Military Krags >> Original 1898 carbine or not? http://www.kragcollectorsassociation.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1566158398 Message started by MikeyC on Aug 18^th, 2019 at 7:59pm

Title: Re: Original 1898 carbine or not?
Post by butlersrangers on Aug 25^th, 2019 at 6:52pm

You do have a legitimate carbine barrel with a Springfield Armory installed front-sight base.

Your front-sight blade appears to be the correct height for the model 1896 carbine rear-sight. Your blade may be stamped with a small "C"; this is stamped low, (out of sight and hidden by the base).

If it were mine, I would put a regular Krag butt-plate on it (and keep the early one with the carbine as part of the mystery carbine story).