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Whig KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 1324 Location: Balt MD Joined: Sep 24^th, 2016 Gender:	M1899 Carbine for sale- good deal Oct 20^th, 2019 at 10:41pm	Print Post
	I am not selling nor connected in any way to this listing. There is a nice looking M1899 Krag carbine, arsenal rebuild, for sale at a great price, with no current bids, on Gun Broker. Ends tomorrow. It is wearing an appropriate M1901 carbine rear sight and is not sporterized. Not perfect but a nice stock and hand guard also. Check it out. Might be a good deal at current price for anyone looking to add an M1899 carbine to their collection. I don't need it. I've been watching this and thought someone at KCA might want to bid on it. (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: M1899 Carbine for sale- good deal Reply #1 - Oct 20^th, 2019 at 10:57pm	Print Post
	Is the front sight correct?


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Whig KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 1324 Location: Balt MD Joined: Sep 24^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: M1899 Carbine for sale- good deal Reply #2 - Oct 20^th, 2019 at 11:45pm	Print Post
	I can't tell why it is higher than usual. I thought it was just an incorrect blade. The base looks dovetailed but I can't tell for sure. I would e-mail and ask the seller and ask for some better pictures of the front sight. I wouldn't want to mislead anyone. Check it out further. Do your due diligence. If unsure, I'd pass. This Krag started life as a carbine but certainly could have had alterations including a new barrel that is not correct. We have seen that many times. I've enhanced a couple pictures a little.


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Mike4MSU KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 72 Joined: Feb 22^nd, 2019	Re: M1899 Carbine for sale- good deal Reply #3 - Oct 21^st, 2019 at 12:56am	Print Post
	Did you look at picture 27? I don’t like that extra cut near the guard. Seems it may be a repro stock as well - no markings and doesn’t seem quite right to me.


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Ned Butts KCA Forum Admin KCA Official Member Offline Krag enthusiast! Posts: 525 Location: western catskills NY Joined: Apr 1^st, 2002 Gender:	Re: M1899 Carbine for sale- good deal Reply #4 - Oct 21^st, 2019 at 1:21am	Print Post
	Looking at pictures 10,16 &24 and zooming in the base does not look right. Trigger guard cut is strange also as Mike stated.


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Whig KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 1324 Location: Balt MD Joined: Sep 24^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: M1899 Carbine for sale- good deal Reply #5 - Oct 21^st, 2019 at 1:44am	Print Post
	Does the hand guard look too small for the stock underneath it? The front cut of the hand guard looks wrong too. I agree. Looks suspiciously wrong in a number of ways. That's a weird front trigger guard cut. A lot of work in that stock if it is a repro. I guess that's why there are no bids including mine! Nice detective work. It would be nice to take it a part in person but I'm not doing that. Heck, if the carbine is wrong, I wonder if that rear sight is fake? If not, those M1901 carbine sights are still valuable. Also, the bottom of the butt plate doesn't fit the stock correctly. Picture 40.


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leadhead KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 35 Location: Western Pa. Joined: Nov 7^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: M1899 Carbine for sale- good deal Reply #6 - Oct 21^st, 2019 at 10:37pm	Print Post
	That front sight base looks really, really high to me. Denny


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