Hello to the forum:  About a month ago I posted a rear sight which turned out to be a fake. I bought a box of krag parts. This sight was in there. My question is can someone verify it is real. And would it be proper on a 1898 krag carbine?
          Thanks in advance,  kc

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Poor pictures to examine detail. I think we have to have a high suspicion of alteration on these rarer types of rear sights when we have seen so many faked Krag carbine sights recently. Need excellent close ups of numbers and "c"s stamped on sight. If it was sold with other fake sight, it definitely raises suspicion.

The "c" stamped on the right side of this sight looks very clean to be original but that's a first impression of this picture. The front adjustment wheel looks like it's off center or bent in the one picture. Hard to tell without examining it directly.


Please post better pictures if you can. Thanks!

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Sight

Hope these are better.

Thanks for the better pictures. The slide and adjustment knobs look good. I don't see any problems with the fonts of the numbers or "c" stampings. The metal isn't disrupted anywhere.

The large "C" stamp on the top of the sight is centered which is critical. I have seen these off-center on fakes.

I don't have my sight with me to compare but from the pictures, I would say it looks good. I would like some other opinions because I miss some details sometimes.

I'd vote "good" so far!

Nice sight!

King carp - This is the Krag rear-sight that was used with the 2,200 fps cartridge. This ammo proved too hot for the Krag action and began resulting in cracked Bolt Locking Lugs.

The Carbine version appeared on model 1899 carbines, according to Frank Mallory, made from January to July, 1900.

There was also a Rifle version of this sight.

The sight with three notches was unpopular. (The outside notches were for wind correction).
The 1898 sight was the first U.S. Krag sight that incorporated windage adjustment.

The 2,200 fps ammo was pulled out of service. The model 1898 sights thus became obsolete.

In the early 1900's the 1898  leaf and eye-piece (with the outside notches ground-off) were used to make a variation of the 1902 sight.
(I don't believe the bases were officially reused).

The 1898 sight used the same hand-guard that would be used with the 1902 sight. The same hand-guard was used on rifles and carbines.

The 1898 sights, especially the carbine, are hard to find because the leaf and eyepiece were recycled. They are probably not in great demand.

At the Michigan Show last February, one that I was interested in, was sold for $250. (I'm not that interested)!

Photo - 1898 carbine sight with hand-guard.

p.s. It is not the Krag stock, but, the hand-guard, that needs to 'match-up'  with the rear-sight. The openings in the hand-guard are 'sight specific'.