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- Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: My 2nd Krag - May 1903 Rifle in 1900 Stock
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8135
Re: My 2nd Krag - May 1903 Rifle in 1900 Stock
.... and maybe my hunch was completely wrong.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:08 pm
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: My 2nd Krag - May 1903 Rifle in 1900 Stock
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8135
Re: My 2nd Krag - May 1903 Rifle in 1900 Stock
'Hammer' - You can purchase a spare 'Sgt. Peep' plate and pivot-screw, from S&S Firearms (Glendale, N.Y.) or 'Grampa's Gun Parts', for a very reasonable cost. You can then enlarge the sight-hole, on one of your 'plates', for easier sighting. Most KCA Members just use the 'V' notch. The swing-up ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:40 am
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: I think it’s a 1900 JSA Dated Stamp
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3381
Re: 1900 or 1903 JSA Dated Cartouche?
Too fuzzy to tell, the wood could be worn, sanded, or scraped?
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:54 am
- Forum: Chit-Chat
- Topic: Springtime is heading North
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2710
Springtime is heading North
I enjoyed Fort Pulaski (at Savannah, Ga.) the other day.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:23 am
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: Krag DCM sales document
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2812
Re: Krag DCM sales document
Whig is correct. The DCM Krag sales documents appear to authorize a sale, but, do not contain the actual serial number of the rifle or carbine involved in the transaction. I have seen the document photo that Cat Man posted before; I recall the purchaser's name. I have different paperwork for an NRA ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:14 am
- Forum: Chit-Chat
- Topic: Friendly skies? bummer insignia!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2923
Re: Friendly skies? bummer insignia!
The Boeing P-12 is from the U.S. Army Air Corps, 55th Pursuit Squadron, early 1920s. Some U.S. Spads also wore the swastika emblem, during during WW1. The U.S. Army 45th Infantry division, with many Native Americans, wore a swastika patch from 1924 to 1939. The patch was changed to a 'Thunderbird' c...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:51 am
- Forum: Chit-Chat
- Topic: Friendly skies? bummer insignia!
- Replies: 5
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Friendly skies? bummer insignia!
A perfectly good U.S. military unit-logo would be permanently ruined, just a few years later.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: School Rifles with JFC Stock Cartouche
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13719
Re: School Rifles with JFC Stock Cartouche
Possible germ of the idea of issuing carbine length Krags to people of small stature. Full-length rifles proved very awkward for Filipinos serving in the U.S. Scouts and the Philippine Constabulary. 'Trapdoor' carbines were a good stopgap. Initially, The Philippine Scouts, at the 1904 - St. Louis Wo...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 2:16 am
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: School Rifles with JFC Stock Cartouche
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13719
Re: School Rifles with JFC Stock Cartouche
Frank Mallory and William Brophy both wrote a chapter on the Philippine Constabulary/School Rifles in their Krag books. The chapters throw some light, but, also create some confusion, at least in my mind, on the subject. Brophy shows pictures of a Springfield Armory produced short rifle with a J.F.C...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: U.S. Military Krags
- Topic: School Rifles with JFC Stock Cartouche
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13719
Re: School Rifles with JFC Stock Cartouche
FWIW - I don't own a 'School Rifle' and have seen more suspect ones, than real ones. To add to the confusion, "Philippine Constabulary carbines" and "School Rifles" are both technically, a "United States magazine carbine, model of 1899, adapted for knife bayonet and gun slin...