Krag Collectors Association Forum

<blockquote>...Boomer - Your excellent photos have been very educational....<br /></blockquote><br />Thanks for that. I try to provide good photo's whenever I can... they say a lot more in less time than I can type, and most folks like them more. That's one of the reasons I still can't believe I did...

<blockquote>Your rod looks like the rod on my 3140. 5MadFarmers has a good picture in his book.<br /><br /></blockquote><br />Thanks for the info.<br /><br />I visited their website a few days back in hopes of ordering that book. The site doesn't look like it's had any activity in a long time, and I...

<blockquote>...<br />I would advise contacting Movieman630 - aka 'Grandpa's Gun Parts' and seeing if he has a suitable front Stacking-Swivel and screw for an early Krag. </blockquote><br />I haven't reached out to Movieman630 directly, but I have checked 'Grandpa's Gun Parts' website. They have a st...

<r>Here's another photo with the cleaning rod in place.<IMG src="https://kragcollectorsassociation.org/kca/phpBB3/images/yabbfiles/Attachments/92Krag_CleaningRodInserted1.JPG"><s>[img]</s><URL url="https://kragcollectorsassociation.org/kca/phpBB3/images/yabbfiles/Attachments/92Krag_CleaningRodInsert...

<r><blockquote>Close-Up and clear photos of the rod 'head', (especially, where the color changes), and of the threads, may beget feedback and opinions.</blockquote><br /><br />I don't know what I was thinking (or not thinking) with that one. I'm surprised I forgot to take a closeup of something this...

<r>Is there any way to determine if the cleaning rod in this rifle is an original or a repop? I have not found markings of any kind on this rod.<br /><br />There was an earlier post where dimensions for a Krag (I believe from an 1894 manual which I haven't yet gotten a copy of) were compared to an A...

Great information about the rear sight!! Thanks to all of you.

<blockquote>At the risk of being tedious, once again: those pictured screws and sight are completely normal. The front counterbore is shallow because it is in the leaf spring, not the sight base - if deeper it would leave little or no thickness below the screw head. Further, as posited above, the fr...

<blockquote>Boomer,<br /> I looked at your photos again and scrolled sideways to get the whole picture. The bottom photo is from the front sight area, so the longer screw is showing less threads (3 for the front and 4 for the back). So the shorter screw has more threads engaged, was it designed that...

The screws shown in Boomer's photo are completely normal for the 96 sight. Here's a couple cuts from the official manual -

Thanks for the info!!!! I've gone out and found/acquired a copy of that manual.