What Do I Have? I have owned a 30-40 Krag for over 50 yrs. It is stamped on the side with 1894 Springfield Armory and the # 6517 There is a stamp in the stock behind the trigger cover that is an X with a circle under the X and some sort of Logo in the center of the circle. The barrell is 30 inches fro the end to the chamber. I have been doing research but am finding only vagi=ue information about the rifle.

Yes except it does not have the sling. The brackets are there but the sling is not. It has the side clip with the bolt action. I have seen a lot of pictures of ones that look a lot like it. I will post pictures tomorrow.

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Thanks for the input. Any idea what the stamp in the stock behind the trigger is?

Around about 24,000 model 1892 rifles were made before the model 1896 replaced it in manufacture.  They made an effort to "upgrade" the model 1892 rifles to model 1896 standard and your rifle went through that process.  Part of that upgrade was replacing the rear sight and your rifle has the 1896 rear sight.  They also removed the under-stock cleaning rods and plugged the channel and your stock should show that.  Numbers of other bits were changed as part of that process and your rifle, again, shows bits of that.  In particular the receivers were "notched" for a hold-open pin on the extractor and the extractor itself received a pin.  Your rifle has that.

What's somewhat unusual is the number of 1892 parts your rifle retains.  Most of the bolt sleeve assembly is 1892 and that's somewhat unusual but seen in the wild.  The hand guard is also the model 1892 whereas most received the 1896 edition (goes back further in the back).

When the stock was cut down they didn't also cut down the barrel and that's a plus.

Nice gun but pity that stock cut.