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Firearms >> U.S. Military Krags >> Really high serial number http://www.kragcollectorsassociation.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1569285136 Message started by Ora Serrata on Sep 24^th, 2019 at 12:32am

Title: Re: Really high serial number
Post by Dick Hosmer on Sep 24^th, 2019 at 5:36am

I've owned 482440 for many years.

It, like yours was made in 1903 - only a handful, presumably with much higher numbers, were made in 1904.

SA had to pay a royalty on every Krag assembled, so VERY careful records were kept as to how many were made.