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AFJuvat KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 65 Location: Jacksonville, FL Joined: Mar 10^th, 2017 Gender:	Interesting Krag for sale on the CMP forums. Oct 25^th, 2017 at 1:45pm	Print Post
	1898 Krag, marked as the property of RKO pictures. Serial number looks like 460822. (You need to *Login* to view media files and links)


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98src KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 160 Location: sevierville,tn Joined: Jul 3^rd, 2010 Gender:	Re: Interesting Krag for sale on the CMP forums. Reply #1 - Oct 26^th, 2017 at 11:42am	Print Post
	I was told that the CMP traded 03-A3's for the Krags. I saw them at the South Store...also some marked MGM. I wish I had bought one.


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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: Interesting Krag for sale on the CMP forums. Reply #2 - Oct 26^th, 2017 at 1:35pm	Print Post
	From time to time, there have been threads on the KCA and other gun forums listing movies (and TV shows) that featured Krags, as 'prop' guns. The list is long. I don't care to repeat it, but, the 'prop' use is an interesting 'after life' of the Krag - Movie Star!


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1stazmilitia KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 27 Location: central highlands arizona Joined: Apr 2^nd, 2016 Gender:	Re: Interesting Krag for sale on the CMP forums. Reply #3 - Oct 26^th, 2017 at 5:55pm	Print Post
	Gentlemen, I recall seeing those guns at the old MGM auction many years ago. Prices were good until one looked down the barrel. They were sewer pipes! I personally knew one of their weapons personel, and he told me that when the weapons were returned to the studio, they were just returned to the arms rack..............never cleaned! -The Irish Mick Arizona Territory


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Local Boy KCA Forum Member KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 462 Location: Mat-Su Valley, Alaska Joined: Sep 24^th, 2015 Gender:	Re: Interesting Krag for sale on the CMP forums. Reply #4 - Oct 26^th, 2017 at 8:41pm	Print Post
	Internet Movie Firearms Database (imfdb.org) is an interesting site to go to. BTW: The same gun appears to be listed on Gun Broker. Current bidding is at $499.99


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psteinmayer KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 2391 Location: Ypsilanti, Michgan Joined: Aug 30^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Interesting Krag for sale on the CMP forums. Reply #5 - Oct 26^th, 2017 at 10:48pm	Print Post
	I've never heard of the "Correct Blank Firing Adapter." It looks like, in addition to drilling a hole in the side plate, there was some possible modification to the ramp too. If so, then when the device is removed, it might cause problems with feeding regular cartridges. The stock and handguard are pretty rough too!


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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: Interesting Krag for sale on the CMP forums. Reply #6 - Oct 26^th, 2017 at 11:44pm	Print Post
	That Krag was probably repeatedly dropped by actors portraying Indian Thugs in 'Gunga Din'.
	« Last Edit: Oct 27^th, 2017 at 4:38am by butlersrangers »

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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: Interesting Krag for sale on the CMP forums. Reply #7 - Oct 31^st, 2017 at 5:41am	Print Post
	A 'Movie Sergeant' can do anything - smoke a pipe, while playing a harmonica and reading sheet music (propped up with a British Pattern 1888 bayonet). Those movie prop guns had to suffer a lot of abuse. Charlie's model 1896 Krag seems to be fitted with a pattern 1888 bayonet. I am not certain about the second bayonet in a Krag scabbard on his Mills Belt. I think that is also a British pattern 1888 hilt and the rivets look mighty shiny, like brass. (BTW - The 'helmets' appear to be cut and shaped felt hats).
	« Last Edit: Oct 31^st, 2017 at 2:27pm by butlersrangers »

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madsenshooter KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 1079 Joined: Sep 10^th, 2009	Re: Interesting Krag for sale on the CMP forums. Reply #8 - Oct 31^st, 2017 at 9:03pm	Print Post
	I think the studio guns were the whole reason CMP got with Criterion to make new Krag barrels. Some of us have seen what happens to black powder guns put away without cleaning, and the same happens to those fired with black powder blanks.


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