Skirmish- Welcome to the KCA where we love everything Krag! Not only have you joined an elite group of Krag owners but you have immediately joined the smaller group of Krag owners who have taken a picture of a nice Krag with your feet in the picture! Now, that's class!

Your Krag carbine looks nice but we need more pictures including the rear sight. The front sight has a hole drilled in the bottom of the base for some reason which is not original. It is missing the blade that is held in by a little pin.

Your Krag is a "Model 1896" carbine, as pictured on the receiver. That places it's date of manufacture somewhere in the mid to late 1896 area. Ones marked "1896", without the "Model" were made in Jan or Feb 1896 and some marked "1895" were made from June 1895 through Dec 1895.

Model 1896 Krag carbines are quite sought after. What's really important, though, is to have the original, correct rear carbine sight which is calibrated to 20 and has a "c" stamped on the top right of the slide above the 19 and on the right side of the base. If the slide is calibrated only to 18, it is a rifle rear sight and not correct for the M1896 carbine.

If you can give a little more history about your carbine and post some more pictures, we'll help to dissect it more. How's the bore look? I'm always concerned about the condition of the bore because many can be badly pitted with no rifling left. Pitting is OK if some good rifling remains for shooting.

Thanks for sharing and welcome again!

Can you measure the barrel from the muzzle to the front of the closed bolt? Push a cleaning rod down the barrel until it hits the front of the closed bolt and measure that. A carbine has a 22 inch barrel exactly. Many cut down barrels are close to but not exactly 22 inches.

I don't have my references here to check serial number ranges for M1896 carbines but Butlers said it might not be in that correct range. Sometimes a true carbine can be a rogue one outside the known range but don't count on it. Barrels can also be changed.

The stock, though, is a M1896 carbine stock with the spring in front of the barrel band and the flared bolt handle cut out. The hand guard is nice.

So, it may be a pieced together carbine cut down from a Krag rifle.

If you are able to give us more pictures, it will answer some questions. Nice piece, regardless!

Thanks for the quick responses though they were not all I’d hoped for. The rear sight only goes to 1800 yards and has no C mark so that’s clearly from a rifle. And the barrel measures nearly 24 inches. I’ll get some more pictures tomorrow and post them. I fear the cartouche won’t show much, it’s so faint. But the receiver markings actually are clearer in photos than in person so maybe...
Yes it does include the saddle bar and ring. 

Thanks for noticing my feet. This is certainly not he first time they have appeared in a photo I‘ve posted to a forum. Guess I need longer arms.   

Stay tuned for more and thanks again.

Skirmisher

Here are some more pics. The cartouche is there but it’s just too faint to read. The P below the wrist is more visible but doesn’t show up well on the picture. The number 30 can be seen just above it.  Tiny letters what Looks like TT are stamped on the underside of the bolt handle. The bore is pretty good. As noted above the butt includes the three piece rod plus a short bonus piece I believe was added by someone.
While I did not pay a carbine price the estimates noted above are certainly less.  I am surprised that BR has the value of the stock nearly double Whig’s estimate of the entire gun! 
My interest is in viable shooters, no safe queens allowed here, and I expect this one will perform well once I get the new front sight mounted. It is my first Krag, I have wanted one for some time. Thanks for any additional comments or advice.

Skirmisher

Skirmisher, take a good up close look behind the bolt locking lug and make sure that I'm not seeing a crack that's running the way they usually do.  Could be I'm seeing something that's not there.

Thanks for the added comments.  Took a good look and there is no evidence of a crack in the bolt. Plan to look into adding the missing cutoff.

Skirmisher

All U.S. Krag 'cut-off levers' will fit the model 1896 Krag action.

The correct one is the long - shaft version.