I’ve discussed this build in the cascity forum but not here. Many years ago I picked up a cheap 1917 Bolo with bad scales and no guard. I bought replacement scales but never got around to building a guard. Some months ago I discovered the Krag Bowie, a really georgeous hunk of steel. But at 2 to 4 grand definitely out of my neighborhood. But I got to researching and figured that if I turned the bolo blade slightly I could get a pretty good facsimile of a bowie out of my junky bolo blade. Would of had to cut it anyway. So I found a rough Krag bayonet without a scabbard and started cutting. I had discovered some dremel cut off blades with the little bowtie reenforcements in the wheels. These worked great making the top bowie curve and the tang cuts. I used several belt sanders to get the blade shaped. Got the tangs tig welded together and the scales fitted. I oxpho blued the tang and guard and truoiled the scales. Last thing is to set the rivets. Here it is on my Constabulary Krag. I plan to use it this month as my cas club is trying a boltgun, 1911 and 1897 match. Ought to be a hoot. Plan on using my homemade charger then too. Hope my build doesn’t upset anyone, I wasn’t trying to build a fake, just a lookalike. This was how the first Krag Bolo was created according to Hartman’s Krag bayonet book.

I don't know.  *snap* *snap*.  reminds me about a movie about some kid, a yappy dog and bicycle with a picnic basket. some kind of rogue tornado.

ah heck.  Hand me another beer.

I see what you mean, Culpeper .... Look under the Deck!

That’s no wicked witch’s foot, it’s my wife’s wind chime that fell to it’s death. ......And your little Krag too.

The BIG day!!! We shoot boltguns, 1911s and 1897s Saturday so I’ll see if my Wicked Bowie of the West stays on my rifle.....and your little krag too. No rain in sight.

We finally shot our bolt gun, 1911 and 1897 match yesterday. We had 7 boltgunners and 6 cowpokes show up. Had a nice day, clouds and a breeze with a hotdog cookout for lunch. Somehow I came in first in military. There were 3 krags in the rifle rack, a legit carbine, my constabulary and Charles Iassac’s 30 in bbl rifle. A good time. Shot a stage with the bowie mounted too.

The 5 round plates all went clang twice. I’ll have to try it on paper for that experiment.

butlersrangers wrote on Aug 24^th, 2018 at 2:27am:


This isn’t commonly known, but the Palace Guards were actually saying...”We all love, The Old One”