Skirmish- Welcome to the KCA where we love everything Krag! Not only have you joined an elite group of Krag owners but you have immediately joined the smaller group of Krag owners who have taken a picture of a nice Krag with your feet in the picture! Now, that's class!

Your Krag carbine looks nice but we need more pictures including the rear sight. The front sight has a hole drilled in the bottom of the base for some reason which is not original. It is missing the blade that is held in by a little pin.

Your Krag is a "Model 1896" carbine, as pictured on the receiver. That places it's date of manufacture somewhere in the mid to late 1896 area. Ones marked "1896", without the "Model" were made in Jan or Feb 1896 and some marked "1895" were made from June 1895 through Dec 1895.

Model 1896 Krag carbines are quite sought after. What's really important, though, is to have the original, correct rear carbine sight which is calibrated to 20 and has a "c" stamped on the top right of the slide above the 19 and on the right side of the base. If the slide is calibrated only to 18, it is a rifle rear sight and not correct for the M1896 carbine.

If you can give a little more history about your carbine and post some more pictures, we'll help to dissect it more. How's the bore look? I'm always concerned about the condition of the bore because many can be badly pitted with no rifling left. Pitting is OK if some good rifling remains for shooting.

Thanks for sharing and welcome again!