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In your #2 pic, I think I can see the remnant of a cartouche, at about the rear of the trigger guard, on the right side, not on the left where they usually are.  But sometimes, I see things like that which aren't really there!  If there is something there, then the stock was never a cadet stock, it would have came from one made over a year before the rifle was made.  Oops, meant pic 2, fixed it.  All this scrolling side to side, up and down, I'm getting the motion sickness again!

I looked at the stamping in the sling very closely with a magnifying glass and a flashlight held at an angle.  It is a 1907 Pattern US military sling marked M.D.C. H&P 1918.  A little too late to be correct for the Krag I'm afraid.  But it would be good on a M1903 or a M1917...  lol  Perhaps it dates the stock a little better.

'realaleman' - Interesting family heirloom.

Krag, #24688, is listed by Franklin Mallory in: "The Krag Rifle Story", 2nd edition, appendix 20, as an - 1896 rifle issued in 1898 to Co. "C", 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Although your rifle receiver was dated in 1895, it appears to have been built/assembled as a model 1896 rifle.

It appears to me that your Krag has a model 1898 bolt, with the bolt handle 'bent down'.

Also, I think your stock is a model 1896 military stock that someone cut-down, 'checkered', and reshaped.

(p.s. - You are lucky. It is very rare to have a Krag serial number that is a "Hit" in the SRS data that Mallory researched and documented).

The "P" on the barrel shows that, during the manufacture process, the barrel was 'proof' tested, with high pressure Proof Cartridges.

A similar "P" should be present on the front face of the receiver near the 'barrel index mark'.