While I love my Constabulary Krag I'm not impressed with my ersatz NRA Krag. I would never drill up the receiver to mount a scope even on this carbine but lately I've been thinking about scout rifles. The Kraghaus 6 inch scout scope mount looks very interesting. Just one extra hole which would be hidden under the upper handguard if you removed the mount and put the handguard back. Neat idea. Has anyone on the forum used one? Are they a good compromise?

Whether or not you can get away with two depends on some factors.  Weight of the scope, how much red locktite you use, how hot you get the barrel during a shooting session.  I've successfully used the short mount without modification when using a 1901 handguard, but had to take a bit off the bottom to get it to fit an 1896 handguard.  Can't recall if I've tried it with a 98 or 02 handguard, probably have. The screws only came loose on me once after the barrel got warm enough to soften the Loctite.

I use the scope more for load development work.  They're 3x7 intermediate eye relief, cheap enough to be disposable.  One sometimes encounters problems with them, but the ebay seller is good at accepting returns.  The eye relief of most pistol scopes is set to be way out there, but these scopes are about right.  I found old Bushnell rings that got me lower and further forward than what's shown, this was when I first got the mount.  It seems to me like a red dot would be just fine for hunting.  I have another of the short mounts, a red dot, and a variety of short rifles I could try it on, but they've not gotten together yet!  Oh, the reticle on these scopes is further to the rear, closer to the ocular lens, than most scope designs.  Any flex in the ocular bell moves the poi!  The bell and lock ring have to be tight.

Baltimoreed wrote on Jan 24^th, 2018 at 8:00pm:

A red dot reflex sight mounted on a KragHaus 2 screw mount would indeed be a happy combination. With no alterations needed to the rifle or carbine would make it fast easy and restoration to original would be very easy 5 minute project.
I think I have attached 2 images, the first is a shop made Weaver mount with a Doctor reflex sight adapter and a Burris Fastfire3  manual. The other foto is a Doctor sight on a custom mount on a Ruger SA 45Colt. I killed 2 pigs that were running while I was chasing them with the Ruger, a 3rd pig was chasing me and died less than 5 paces from my feet. The reflex sight on a pistol is a little slow getting the red dot lined up. On a rifle there will be nothing faster.
I still have not fired the 35/40 with the red dot reflex sight in anger, I have heard pigs at night on the neighboring places but still have had none on my place since finishing the rifle.
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psteinmayer wrote on Jan 25^th, 2018 at 10:09pm:

Whats not to like here, beautiful practical rifle for load development, you could use it for hunting or even varmint control. You did not ruin a collectors piece. Nice!

My Kraghaus mount came yesterday so I started trying to get it on my carbine today. It's was a tad long butting up against the action enough that the screws wouldn't align with the sight mount holes. I removed a little material from the receiver end of the mount to get the holes true. The other thing thing is that the holes in the mount were too small for my screws so I drilled them out a little. Eventually I managed to get it and my Nikon 2x eer on the gun. I'm not satisfied that I have enough screw thread into the bbl so I ordered some long repro Krag sight screws from s&s today. I don't plan on shooting it until I can get long screws that almost bottom out in the bbl sight holes and a third mounting screw. I will post photos tomorrow. I like the way it looks.

Good guess.  I've put a few flanged barrels on Krags and found out the receiver is not square at the front.  I think Peter left the holes a bit undersized on purpose, so we could drill them out for whatever we're using.  At one time Criterion was using 6x32 screws, for example.

Looks pretty good.  I used the standard Krag sight screws in the sight holes, and then drilled for an 8-32 for the far rear hole.  As I recall, I also had to drill the forward holes in the rail to lower the shoulder so the screws would seat deeper in the barrel.  I'm sure your Krag will be a tack driver!!!