We will need pictures! It was not listed in SRS, but it is very close to some 1ST US Vol Cavalry carbines. The stock would be suspect if it has a 1897 cartouche without a saddle ring ( or the inletting ).

Hello and welcome. If I'm reading your description correct,you are stating as to it not having sling swivels which would be correct, but you don't mention the carbine swivel. Does it have the sling bar/ring on the left hand side? The Krag 1896 Carbine could be marked 1895, 1896 or Model 1896. The early stocks with the thin wrist were very easily broken. So a replacement is not uncommon at all as long as all other requirements are in place. Photos or other descriptions are needed. Congrats, John P.S. looks like you got back while I was composing.

The muzzle does not appear to have been turned down. I need to get new batteries for my calipers so I can't give you the diameter at this time. I am waiting for my DSLR batteries to recharge so I can post some photos. Thanks for your input.

I found some photos I'd forgotten I'd taken. More to come when the battery is charged.

Neat medals and pics!  Which one is your grandfather?

Florida Native:  Welcome to the KCA and thanks for sharing some wonderful things.  What was your Grandfather's name?  I've cropped a detail from one of your pictures.  Is he the one on the right with the shooting medal?  (I would guess the picture is 1902-07).

You are correct he's the one on the right in that photo. His name is Fred G. Yerkes. I have relatively strong circumstantial evidence he may have been involved in running guns to Cuba. I was going through a box of old photos while my father was still living and discovered an albumen of the Commodore tied up at what appeared to be docks in Jacksonville. I found three more photos which turned out to be the Dauntless, the Three Friends and one of William Randolph Heart's steam yacht Vamoose. My family was in the hardware distributing business and owned large warehouses built over the St. Johns River. To thicken the plot my great grandfather was the founding partner of Yerkes & Plumb which later after he sold his portion became Fayette Plumb company. Plumb axes and hammers are still made. My great grandfather Jonathan Yerkes was a member of the same Masonic lodge in Pennsylvania where the plots to run guns to Cuba were hatched. Henry Disston another hardware manufacturer was also a member of the same lodge. Both retired and moved to Florida. Henry Disston was a known supporter of Filibustering the term used for running guns to Cuba. Who knows?   

I"m posting additional photos of my grandfather's Medals and will post a few more photos of the Krag later today. BTW the muzzle cap does not appear to have been stretched or if it was there are no stress marks on the metal.