Krag Collectors Association Forum

This Springfield Armory - NP Historic Site display shows a 'Parkhurst carbine', configured like Tom's, except for his 'threaded-muzzle' and stock toe escutcheon plate.

That is pretty wonderful, Tom!
Everything seems right for a second block model 1899 carbine, built around September-October of 1900.

The biggest mystery is the threaded muzzle, Maxim silencer?

The 'shield shaped' escutcheon at the toe of the stock suggests a past civilian owner?

How to answer the eternal question of .... Who rang that bell? !!!

It sounds like a Krag carbine stock and barrel-band retaining spring.

Model 1896, model 1898, and model 1899 carbines used specific stocks and barrel-bands.
The barrel-bands were solid and retained with a flat spring.

If you post a picture, we can tell you what you have.

I will have to go back with a better camera and measuring tape, to better 'record' the two cannon barrels. They appear to be 4.5 inch, cast iron Siege Rifles, marked with the initials of the "Fort Pitt Foundry - Pittsburgh - 1863", IIRC. These rifled cannons were used by the U.S. field art...

The Village of Holly, Michigan. The entrance is at Park St. & Maple.

My photographer friend has been capturing eggs hatching over the past week!
These shots were taken at Kensington Metro Park, about 12 miles from where I live.

That bevel is so subtle, maybe it is present but just not noticeable, in the 'short rifle' photos that I posted?

As Dick Hosmer states, there is no 'downside' to the slight bevel on the Krag bayonet-lug.

If I remember correctly, there may have once been an intention to provide the Philippine Constabulary with 1903 Springfield bayonets, but, they opted to use the standard Krag bayonet.

My wife and I went to a 'library talk' today, that was a virtual tour of an old local cemetery. Since it is on a small peninsula, we had seen it from a distance, across a lake, but had never driven through it. On the drive home, I detoured off our normal route and we did a quick driving tour. The U....