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Message started by Wilson on May 23rd, 2020 at 1:18am

Title: Re: Krag Carbine SN 201498?
Post by Whig on May 23rd, 2020 at 12:36pm
Wilson, welcome to KCA! We love Krags and am glad you have stopped by to share yours with us.

Your pictures need to be sized in the "inches" way- not pixelation size. Find the inch height or width and make them somewhere like 6 or 8 or whatever works for your set up.

Sporterized, cut down, Krags are quite popular. Krags were sold so cheap by the govt back in the 1920s, 30s and 40s that many people bought them and cut down the 30 inch barrels of the rifle and made great hunting rifles out of them.

The .30 caliber bullet was, and still is, a great hunting round. A cut down "carbine" length barrel of 20 inches was a great size to carry through the fields and woods for hunting.

Today, sporterized Krags are still popular and collected and people still use them for target shooting and even hunting. They can be great shooting firearms with great accuracy. Ammo is a little harder to find than years ago but there is still a lot out there. Most of us reload, so, save your brass.

Sporterized Krags are generally less valuable than a military configuration Krag. Unaltered Krags, rifles or carbines, are hard to find and much more valuable. Many of the parts, including stocks and sights, have been changed on most Krags over the years either through armory fixing, upgrades or non-armory gun smithing or basement "bubba" jobs.

Good luck and keep the pictures coming.

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