**NEW ADDITION** 10103 RARE U.S. MODEL 1892 30-40 KRAG RIFLE- SERIAL NUMBER 71- (RESTORATION PROJECT) - Serial number 71, probably made in the first week of production in 1894. Model 1892 Krag rifles did not actually begin production until 1894, due to delays caused by complaints about adoption of a “foreign” instead of domestic invention. Only about 24,562 Model 1892 rifles were made, before switching to the Model 1896. In 1900 Springfield Armory recalled all of the M1892s still in service and updated them to Model 1896 configuration. Some 18,559 are documented as being converted, but as Mallory notes in his book “…evidently many of these unconverted rifles were lost or destroyed in service or were scrapped, because unaltered Model 1892 rifles are extremely scarce.” The consensus among advanced collectors is that they are about as scarce as Gas Trap Garands, or M1903 Rod Bayonet rifles or Pedersen devices, with no more than an estimated 50 to 100 examples surviving in, or restored to, original configuration. The Model 1892 is easily recognizable by the full length cleaning rod mounted under the barrel; the upper band having a small guide for the rod; the flat no-trap buttplate, not curved at the toe; the short handguard leaving the receiver ring exposed; the flat, uncrowned muzzle; the lack of a hold open pin on the extractor or the corresponding notch on the receiver; and the back of the cocking piece being box shaped instead of tapered. This example is mostly correct with the exception of the cut off forend, missing upper band and cleaning rod. The bolt body is the correct early type, but not numbered to the gun. The cocking piece has the later beveled edge and the extractor is a later one modified to look like the early type. Correct M1894 sight installed although one of the screws is not exactly right. Barrel retains the flat muzzle crown. Bore shows wear near the breech but stronger rifling as you get to the muzzle, but it is rough and rusted. This has the mat