Hello, This Krag is a SN of 318996  considerably different form the galleries I have seen thus far. Odd holes in stock, No stampin g of ".22CAL" nor a hole in the reciever as other I have seen online. Plus an odd lobe on the back of the bolt. Any feedback on any of this? Refer to pics

That's got to be worthy of some further research - whatever it is - it wasn't Bubba.

Certainly not one of the classic 476XXX gallery rifles, but I would NOT rule out Butler's guess. Another possibility might be some sort of clearance cut for a sub-caliber mounting. I don't see that extra bolt piece as any part of a sight mounted to the rifle however - but perhaps a way to re-cock it remotely - via a wire? - if the breech were un-accessible? Just another thought.

Got to be more careful what I post!

Could be an illusion, but I think the knob may be larger than normal, too. Sorry about the mistake on my post!

(I am trying to think outside the box on this one)!  I do remember in the Golden State Arms catalog, from back in the 1950s, some British rifles with interesting adaptations.  They were customized to accommodate shooters, who were wheel-chair bound or had physical or visual disabilities.  (Just pondering).

Hello. thanks for the feedback and the welcome to KCA. This si my frist and only Krag att this time. I primarily look to collect .22 trainers of all walks.  Here are some answers to questions.
The barrel is a .22 barrel. Not a lined .30 barrel.

The "lobe" is connected to the striker rod and does not rotate. The hole in the lobe is a tapped thread.

When I look in the stock hole closest to the muzzle there are no marks on the barrel. In the hole closest to the receiver there is some marring. I can also see two numbers stamped in the barrel. These numbers are on bottom of barrel,  opposite of the rear sight Just as described for a Pope barrel. The wood shoulders around the holes are sharp with zero wear or compression marks as if from insertion wear.

The bolt is a CF. The bore is off center at the 12-o-clock position. The firing pin hits at the 6PM mark.
there is an interesting post on another forum I searched out. I copied one comment on it. Also listing a link if you want to look at it. (You need to Login to view media files and links)
One additional note. There are actually three variations on 22 cal Krags. Besides the arsenal produced Gallery Practice rifles (with the two variations-arsenal produced complete rifles and barreled receiver variations) there are the Stevens-Pope guns and a few Springfield produced (?) 22 cal rifles with characteristics similar to the S-P guns. These will not have the carrier style receivers, but barrels with the offset at 12 o'clock using the standard extractor to remove spent cases as does the S-P guns.

What is an S-P gun? My rifle does use the standard extractor to remove the shell casing.
I did check the SN on oldguns.net and it reflects production date of 1901 that matches the stock cartouche.

I will post pics tomorrow showing a couple of details. All feedback is gratefully welcomed. Thanks for your knowledge.
Tim

The Stevens-Pope barrels were made 1901-1904 by Stevens.  They were intended to turn any US military Krag into a trainer with a minimum of parts.  They were sold on the civilian market and were also purchased by at least 4 different National Guard organizations. 

As you describe, the barrels were bored off center, with the muzzle concentric but the chamber at the 12:00 position.  That was so that the military Krag bolt could be used with no modifications.  The firing pin strikes at 6:00 and the regular Krag extractor extracts the case most of the time, but not always.  If you shoot the rifle (you should), take along a good .22 caliber cleaning rod.  If a case fails to extract, use the rod to push it out.

Also, there is a tendency for fired cases to get stuck between the bolt and the side plate.  Many users removed the side plate to solve that problem.  Sometimes the side plates get lost.

I have been trying to learn about the Stevens-Pope Krag .22 rimfire barrels for years.  Yours brings the number traced to either 8 or 9.  I may have counted one twice.  In my book, that makes your barrel pretty darn rare.

I have no idea how many were made, but Springfield made more than 800 GPRs to replace them.  Note that the Model 1898 Gallery Practice Rifles have a different chamber & extractor system, a hole drilled in the left side of the receiver and are marked ".22 cal" on the left side.

How is it that the lobe appears to be twistable through 90 degrees? How does pulling back the cocking piece/lobe/striker not cock the rifle - what is meant by the "right position"? Has the basic internal bolt mechanism been somehow altered? The usual cocking-piece sight was dovetailed to the knob. Why is the knob knurling different on this rifle?

This gets more interesting by the minute!   

In the picture of the Krag action set up for the Sub-Target Rifle Machine (STRM) posted by butlersrangers, there is what appears to be a lobe attached to the striker.  The lobe is on the port side of the rifle instead of the starboard as shown in the first set of photos.  There is a rod fastened (threaded?) to the lobe.

The entire striker with lobe in tbergdall's Krag may be a replacement, one which replaced the issue bolt when the rifle was to be used in the STRM, hence the difference in striker knob knurling.  The lobe could have been rotated from its original position during reassembly at any time in the last hundred years.  Perhaps that is why sometimes the rifle can be cocked by pulling on it and sometimes not.

There was more than one kind of training device that held a rifle at shoulder height.  All date from about the same time period, the late 1890s until just before WW1.  This striker assembly could be from another one. Selling gizmos to the Army would make you rich.